Literaturverz. S. 189 - 193 6. Battle and massacre: experiences of mass violence and deathMass violence in small cities ; The siege and capture of Munden, 1626 / Asmus Teufel Pt. 1. Introduction: the Thirty Years War in experience and memoryThe origins of the Thirty Years War ; The course of the Thirty Years War ; The significance of the Thirty Years War ; pt. 2. The documents ; 1. Sense of crisis, sense of time: Tensions and preparations before the war ; The Protestant Union, 1608 ; The Catholic League, 1609 ; 1618: spectacular action and an omen of war and doom: The defenestration of Prague, 1618 / Wilhelm, Count von Slavata An attack on the city of Sondershausen, 1640 / Volkmar Happe The storming and destruction of Magdeburg ; The siege, assault, and destruction of Magdeburg, 1631 / Peter Hagendorf Magdeburg: the massacre viewed from within, 1631 / Johann Daniel Friese The catastrophe of Magdeburg: a local view, 1631 / Christian II of Anhalt-Bernburg The battle of Lutzen ; Request for reinforcements before the battle of Lutzen, 1632 / Albrecht von Wallenstein A battle like no one has ever seen or heard, 1632 / Albrecht von Wallenstein Retrospective account of a participant in the battle of Lutzen, 1632 / Zacharias von Quetz 7. Media, celebrity, and death: the cases of Gustav Adolph and Albrecht von Wallenstein ; Gustav Adolph's heroic death in battle ; "Victorious before death, in death, and after death," 1632 ; A handwritten newsletter from Nuremberg, 1632 ; The immortal Gustav Adolph, 1633 ; Protestant veneration of Gustav Adolph as seen from the Catholic side, 1633 / Mercury's Message Wallenstein's assassination ; Report of Wallenstein's death, 1634 / Regular Weekly News A parody of an epitaph for Wallenstein, 1634 / Regular Weekly News Wallenstein's death as treacherous murder, 1634 ; 8. Peace proclaimed and peace perceived: the peace of Prague and the peace of Westphalia ; The peace of Prague ; The peace of Prague, 1635 ; Skepticism about the recent peace of Prague, 1635 / Volkmar Happe Perceptions of the peace of Prague, 1635 / Johann Georg Pforr The peace of Westphalia ; The relativization of historical truths as a result of the war, 1647 / Johann Peter Lotichius The peace of Westphalia, 1648 ; The messenger bearing news of peace, 1648 ; Peace, but not the end of the consequences of war, 1648-1649 / Caspar Preis The uneasy peace and its aftermath, 1648-1650 / Hans Heberle The experience of war, anxiety regarding the future, and the will to reconstruct, 1647 ; Appendixes: A chronology of the era of the Thirty Years War (1608-1650) ; Questions for consideration. The comet of 1618 as a sign of the times and a bad omen, 1618 / Hans Heberle The siege and capture of Pilsen and the comet, 1618 ; 2. A religious war? ; Confessional politics before and during the war ; The religious peace of Augsburg, 1555 ; The edict of restitution, 1629 / Emperor Ferdinand II A childhood memory of the edict of restitution, 1629 / Johann Daniel Friese The edict of restitution as seen by a pragmatic Catholic hard-liner, ca. 1629 / Melchior Khlesl Religious violence as an expression of confessional identity ; Forced conversion and book burning, 1630-1631 / Bartholomaus Dietwar The seizure of the cathedral of Erfurt by the Protestants, 1632 / Hans Krafft Desacralization and its limits, 1632 / Maurus Friesenegger A Catholic martyr, 1631 / Liborius Wagner The Nurtingen "blood Bible," 1634 ; 3. Soldiers and civilians: confrontations and relations ; Friction and conflict ; The military occupation of Olmutz, 1642-1643 / Friedrich Flade Torture: the Swedish drink and water boarding, 1640 / Martin Botzinger Violence between peasants and soldiers, 1627 and 1637 / Volkmar Happe Peasant violence against soldiers and retribution for it, 1641 / Peter Hagendorf Quartering soldiers: a household under stress, 1633-1635 / Augustin Guntzer Gains and losses: quartering and occupation, 1636 / Christoph Brandis Rape and violence against women ; A case of rape, 1636 / Christoph Brandis Hounding civilians, 1640 / Christian Lehmann A soldier's various ways of dealing with women, 1634 and 1641 / Peter Hagendorf Fear of rape, management of relations, and sweet pacifications, 1632 / Maria Anna Junius The hardships of separation ; Letter to her "dearest brother," ca. 1625 / Margaret, the Mosbachers' maid Letter to the "most honorable" soldier Balthasar Wahs, 1625 / Anna Immick of Allendorf Letter to her "dear husband," ca. 1625 / Barbara Cautzner from Witzenhausen Letter to his "precious," 1625 / Michael Krafft 4. "War nourishes war": contributions, robbery, and plunder ; The burden of contributions on a city and on a household, 1637 / Johann Georg Maul Contribution arrangement for the city of Wernigerode, 1626 / Thomas Schmidt Paying contributions and expressing animosity toward Jews, 1636 and 1638 / Johann Georg Pforr A complaint from three Jewish heads of household, 1624 ; A soldier's fortunes: everyday life and surviving the war, 1627-1630 / Peter Hagendorf "Wolf devours wolf," 1639 / Volkmar Happe 5. Scourges of war: plague, starvation, and cannibalism ; The plague as the scourge of God, 1635 / Johann Daniel Minck War, plague, devastation, and danger: traveling in Germany during the Thirty Years War, 1636 / William Crowne Hungry peasants, starving soldiers, 1633-1634 / Maurus Friesenegger Report on cannibalism in Agawang / Michael Lebhardt Response to Lebhardt, 1635 / Kaspar Zeiller |
