Women on campaign -- Peasant women and conscription -- Officers' wives on the home front -- Queen Christina and female military leadership -- Conclusion
"This book [was] written to counterbalance those accounts that see the [Thirty Years'] War as a parade of campaigns, battles, and states. The author shows people coping with the rigours of war. His book spans the range of human ingenuity, from the production of worldly goods to …
"This book [was] written to counterbalance those accounts that see the [Thirty Years'] War as a parade of campaigns, battles, and states. The author shows people coping with the rigours of war. His book spans the range of human ingenuity, from the production of worldly goods to …
"At its core, Coping with Life during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) explores how people tried to survive the Thirty Years' War, on what resources they drew, and how they attempted to make sense of it. A rich tapestry of stories brings to light contemporaries' trauma as well …
A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed…
A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. In a major reassessment, Wilson argues that religion was not the catalyst, but one element in a let…
Die Reformation stand am Beginn eines rasanten, grundlegenden Wandels in Europa: Glaubenskriege zerrissen den Kontinent, politische und kulturelle Umwälzungen stellten die Ordnung des christlichen Abendlands infrage. »Das verlorene Paradies« ist ein meisterhaftes Panorama der Ze…
Ob Bauer oder Prinz, niemand blieb unberührt von den gesellschaftlichen Umwälzungen des 16. Jahrhunderts. Martin Luthers Kampfansage an die katholische Obrigkeit wirbelte die Grundfesten der christlichen Religion durcheinander. Die Glaubenskriege und das Ringen um die Vorherrsch…
