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This volume draws together an international team of scholars to
explore the experience and significance of early modern European
continental warfare from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Individual essays add to the lively fields of War and Society and
the New Military History by combining the history of war with
political and diplomatic history, the history of religion, social
history, economic history, the history of ideas, the history of
emotions, environmental history, art history, musicology, and the
history of science and medicine. The contributors address how
warfare was entwined with European learning, culture, and the arts,
but also examine the ties between warfare and ideas or ideologies,
and offer new ways of thinking about the costs and consequences of
war. In addition to its interdisciplinarity, the volume is
distinctive in including chapters focused not only on Western and
Central Europe, but also the often-ignored European peripheries,
such as the Baltics and the Russian frontier, Scandinavia, and the
Habsburg-Ottoman borderlands of Southeastern Europe. As a whole,
the volume offers readers interesting alternatives and threads for
reconsidering the place and meaning of warfare within the larger
history of early modern continental Europe. This book will be
valuable for general readers, undergraduate and graduate students,
and scholars interested in military, early modern, and European
history.
This volume draws together an international team of scholars to
explore the experience and significance of early modern European
continental warfare from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Individual essays add to the lively fields of War and Society and
the New Military History by combining the history of war with
political and diplomatic history, the history of religion, social
history, economic history, the history of ideas, the history of
emotions, environmental history, art history, musicology, and the
history of science and medicine. The contributors address how
warfare was entwined with European learning, culture, and the arts,
but also examine the ties between warfare and ideas or ideologies,
and offer new ways of thinking about the costs and consequences of
war. In addition to its interdisciplinarity, the volume is
distinctive in including chapters focused not only on Western and
Central Europe, but also the often-ignored European peripheries,
such as the Baltics and the Russian frontier, Scandinavia, and the
Habsburg-Ottoman borderlands of Southeastern Europe. As a whole,
the volume offers readers interesting alternatives and threads for
reconsidering the place and meaning of warfare within the larger
history of early modern continental Europe. This book will be
valuable for general readers, undergraduate and graduate students,
and scholars interested in military, early modern, and European
history.
Thrust into power in the midst of the bloodiest conflict Europe had
ever experienced, Amalia Elisabeth fought to save her country, her
Calvinist church, and her children's inheritance. Tryntje
Helfferich's vivid portrait reveals how this unique and embattled
ruler used her diplomatic gifts to play the great powers of Europe
against one another during the Thirty Years War, while raising one
of the most powerful and effective fighting forces on the
continent. Stranded in exile after the death of her husband, Amalia
Elisabeth stymied the maneuvers of male relatives and advisors who
hoped to seize control of the affairs of her tiny German state of
Hesse-Cassel. Unshakable in her religious faith and confident in
her own capacity to rule, the princess crafted a cunning strategy
to protect her interests. Despite great personal tragedy,
challenges to her rule, and devastating losses to her people and
lands, Amalia Elisabeth wielded her hard-won influence to help
shape the new Europe that arose in the war's wake. She ended her
reign in triumph, having secured the birthright of her children and
the legalization of her church. The Iron Princess restores to view
one of the most compelling political figures of her time, a woman
once widely considered the heroine of the seventeenth century.
"This is a wonderful anthology . Its texts not only span the whole
of Luther's reforming career, but also cover the theological,
political, and social issues that mattered most to him and his age.
Best of all, the original integrity of the texts remains
perceptible, even when abridged. This valuable collection will be a
great teaching tool and also a most useful resource for anyone
interested in Luther or the Protestant Reformation." -Carlos Eire,
Yale University, author of Reformations: The Early Modern World,
1450-1650 (Yale University Press) CONTENTS: Thematic Table of
Contents General Introduction 1. Preface to the Complete Edition of
the Latin Writings (1545) 2. Disputation on the Power of
Indulgences (The Ninety-Five Theses) (1517) 3. Sermon on Indulgence
and Grace (1518) 4. Disputation Held at Heidelberg (1518) 5. To the
Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520) 6. The Babylonian
Captivity of the Church (1520) 7. On the Freedom of a Christian
(1520) 8. Preface to the New Testament (1522) 9. Preface to the
Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans (1522) 10. On Married Life (1522)
11. On Secular Authority: To What Extent It Must Be Obeyed (1523)
12. That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew (1523) 13. Against the
Heavenly Prophets Concerning Images and the Sacrament (1525) 14.
Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants (1525) 15. The
Bondage of the Will (1525) 16. The German Mass and Order of Divine
Service (1526) 17. How Christians Should Regard Moses (1527) 18.
Concerning Rebaptism (1528) 19. Hymns (pre-1529) 20. On the War
against the Turks (1529) 21. The Small Catechism (1529) 22.
Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians (1535) 23. The
Schmalkald Articles (1537) 24. Letter to Landgrave Philipp of Hesse
(1539) 25. On the Jews and Their Lies (1543) Suggestions for
Further Reading Index
This abridgment of Tryntje Helfferich's acclaimed 2009 anthology
The Thirty Years War features an expanded General Introduction and
annotation designed to support student readings in swift-moving
surveys of European and World history.
Perhaps the clearest and most influential statement of the
principles driving the early Protestant reformers, Martin Luther's
On the Freedom of a Christian (1520) challenged the teachings and
authority of the old Church while simultaneously laying out the
blueprint for a new one.
The Thirty Years War: A Documentary History fills a gap in recent
studies of the great pan-European conflict, providing fresh
translations of thirty-eight primary documents for the student and
general reader. The selections are drawn from the standard
political documents, from the Apology of the Bohemian Estates for
the Defenestration of Prague to the text of the Treaty of
Westphalia, as well as from imperial edicts, trial records,
letters, diary entries, and satirical broadsheets, all directly
translated from the Early New High German, French, Swedish, and
Latin. The volume contains some ten illustrations and one map . . .
and on the whole is well organized and well presented with a
judicious amount of footnotes and a slim For Further Reading
section. A succinct introduction introduces the four sections, each
with its own substantial introduction: (1) Outbreak of the Thirty
Years War (1618-1623), (2) The Intervention of Denmark and Sweden
(1623-1635), and (3) The Long War (1635-1648). The concluding
section (4) Two Wartime Lives (1618-1648), interestingly juxtaposes
the journals of a wandering mercenary and a settled townsman. The
first is the diary of Peter Hagendorf, kept between the years 1624
and 1649 and only rediscovered in 1993. Hagendorf experienced the
war as a common mercenary from the Baltic to Italy, from France to
Pomerania. His counterpart is Hans Heberle, a shoemaker from a
small town in the territory of the free imperial city of Ulm whose
Zeytregister chronicled happenings both in the neighborhood and
further afield. The engrossing accounts of their shifting fortunes
over the three decades of the war really help to give this
collection of texts, and the troublesome period itself, a human
face. They are the stuff from which Grimmelshausen would craft his
great novel of the war, The Adventuresome Simplicissimus (1668).
Tryntje Helfferich is to be applauded for this consistently
interesting and eminently useful volume. --Martin W. Walsh,
University of Michigan, in Sixteenth Century Journal
This abridgment of Tryntje Helfferich's acclaimed 2009 anthology
The Thirty Years War features an expanded General Introduction and
annotation designed to support student readings in swift-moving
surveys of European and World history.
The Thirty Years War: A Documentary History fills a gap in recent
studies of the great pan-European conflict, providing fresh
translations of thirty-eight primary documents for the student and
general reader. The selections are drawn from the standard
political documents, from the Apology of the Bohemian Estates for
the Defenestration of Prague to the text of the Treaty of
Westphalia, as well as from imperial edicts, trial records,
letters, diary entries, and satirical broadsheets, all directly
translated from the Early New High German, French, Swedish, and
Latin. The volume contains some ten illustrations and one map . . .
and on the whole is well organized and well presented with a
judicious amount of footnotes and a slim For Further Reading
section. A succinct introduction introduces the four sections, each
with its own substantial introduction: (1) Outbreak of the Thirty
Years War (1618-1623), (2) The Intervention of Denmark and Sweden
(1623-1635), and (3) The Long War (1635-1648). The concluding
section (4) Two Wartime Lives (1618-1648), interestingly juxtaposes
the journals of a wandering mercenary and a settled townsman. The
first is the diary of Peter Hagendorf, kept between the years 1624
and 1649 and only rediscovered in 1993. Hagendorf experienced the
war as a common mercenary from the Baltic to Italy, from France to
Pomerania. His counterpart is Hans Heberle, a shoemaker from a
small town in the territory of the free imperial city of Ulm whose
Zeytregister chronicled happenings both in the neighborhood and
further afield. The engrossing accounts of their shifting fortunes
over the three decades of the war really help to give this
collection of texts, and the troublesome period itself, a human
face. They are the stuff from which Grimmelshausen would craft his
great novel of the war, The Adventuresome Simplicissimus (1668).
Tryntje Helfferich is to be applauded for this consistently
interesting and eminently useful volume. --Martin W. Walsh,
University of Michigan, in Sixteenth Century Journal
Perhaps the clearest and most influential statement of the
principles driving the early Protestant reformers, Martin Luther's
On the Freedom of a Christian (1520) challenged the teachings and
authority of the old Church while simultaneously laying out the
blueprint for a new one.
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