Foreword Preface List of Maps and Illustrations A Note About the Texts and Translations PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: THE THIRTY YEARS WAR IN EXPERIENCE AND MEMORY The Causes of the Thirty Years War
The Course of the Thirty Years War
The Significance of the Thirty Years War
PART TWO. THE DOCUMENTS 1. Sense of Crisis, Sense of Time Tensions and Preparations Before the War 1.
The Protestant Union, 1608
2.
The Catholic League, 1609
1618: Spectacular Action and Ominous Signs 3. Wilhelm, Count von Slavata,
The Defenestration of Prague, 1618
4. Hans Heberle,
The Comet of 1618 as a Sign of the Times and Bad Omen, 1618
5.
The Siege and Capture of Pilsen, and the Comet, 1618
2. A Religious War? Confessional Politics 6.
The Religious Peace of Augsburg, 1555
7.
The Edict of Restitution, 1629
8. Johann Daniel Friese,
A Childhood Memory of the Edict of Restitution 9. Melchior Khlesl,
The Edict of Restitution as Seen by a Pragmatic Catholic Hardliner Religious Violence and Confessional Identities 10. Bartholomaus Dietwar,
Forced Conversion and Book Burning, 1630, 1631
11. Hans Krafft,
The Seizure of the Cathedral in Erfurt by Protestants, 1634
12. Maurus Friesenegger
, Desacralization and Its Limits, 1632
13. Liborius Wagner,
A Catholic Martyr, 1631
14.
The "Nurtingen Blood Bible," 1634
3. Soldiers and Civilians: Confrontations and Relations Friction and Conflict 15. Friedrich Flade,
The Military Occupation of Olmutz, 1642-1643
16. Martin Bštzinger,
Torture: Swedish Cocktail and Waterboarding, 1640
17. Volkmar Happe,
Violence Between Peasants and Soldiers, 1627
18. Peter Hagendorf,
Peasant Violence Against Soldiers, and Its Retribution, 1641
19. Augustin GŸntzer,
Quartering Soldiers: A Household Under Stress, 1633
20. Christoph Brandis,
Gains and Losses: Quartering and Occupation, 1636
Rape and Violence Against Women 21. Christoph Brandis,
A Case of Rape, 1636
22. Christian Lehmann,
Hounding Civilians, 1638
23. Peter Hagendorf,
A Soldier's Various Ways of Dealing with Women, 1634-1641
24. Maria Anna Junius,
Fear of Rape, Management of Relations, and Sweet Pacifications, 1632
The Hardships of Separation 25. Margaret, the Mosbachers' Maid,
Letter to Her Dearest Brother, 1625
26. Anna Immick from Allendorf,
Letter to the Soldier Balthasar Wahs, 1625
27. Barbara Cautzner from Witzenhausen,
Letter to Her Dear Husband, 1625
28. Michael Krafft,
Letter to Anna N., 1625
4. War Nourishes War: "Contributions," Robbery, and Plunder 29. Johann Georg Maul,
The Burden of Contributions on a City and on a Household, 1637
30. Thomas Schmidt,
Contribution Arrangement for the City of Wernigerode, 1626
31. Johann Georg Pforr,
Paying "Contributions" and Tolerating Jews, 1636-1639
32.
A Complaint from Three Jewish Heads of Household, 1624
33. Peter Hagendorf,
A Soldier's Fortune. Everyday Life and Surviving the War, 1627-1631
34. Volkmar Happe,
Lupus Lupo Lupus, 1639
5. Scourges of War: Plague, Starvation, and Cannibalism 35. Johann Daniel Minck,
The Plague as the Scourge of God, 1635
36. William Crowne,
War, Plague, Devastation, and Danger: Traveling in Germany During the Thirty Years War, 1636
37. Maurus Frisenegger,
Hungry Peasants, Starving Soldiers, 1633-34
38. Michael Lebhardt Plebanus,
Report on Cannibalism in Agawang, with Kaspar Zeiller,
Response to Plebanus, 1635
6. Battle and Massacre: Experiences of Mass Violence and Death
Typical Armed Conflict
39. Asmus Teufel,
The Siege and Capture of Munden, 1626
40. Volkmar Happe,
An Attack on the City of Sondershausen, 1640
The Sack of Magdeburg 41. Peter Hagendorf,
The Siege, Assault, and Destruction of Magdeburg, 1631
42. Johann Daniel Friese,
Magdeburg: The Massacre Viewed from Within, 1631
43. Christian II of Anhalt-Bernburg,
The Catastrophe of Magdeburg: A Local View, 1631
The Battle of Lutzen 44. Albrecht von Wallenstein,
Request for Reinforcements Before the Battle of Lutzen, 1632
45. Albrecht von Wallenstein,
A Battle Like No One Had Ever Seen or Heard, 1632
46. Zacharias von Quetz,
Retrospective Account of a Participant in the Battle of Lutzen, 1632
7. Celebrity, Media, and Death: The Cases of Gustav Adolph and Wallenstein Gustav Adolph's Death in Battle
47.
"Victorious Before Death, in Death, and After Death," 1632
48.
The Immortal Gustav Adolph, 1633
49.
The Protestant Veneration of Gustav Adolph, as Seen from the Catholic Side, 1633
Wallenstein's Assassination 50.
Regular Weekly News,
Report of Wallenstein's Death, 1634
51.
A Parody of an Epitaph for Wallenstein, 1634
52.
Wallenstein's Death as Treacherous Murder, 1634
8. Peace Proclaimed and Peace Perceived
The Peace of Prague
53.
The Peace of Prague, 1635
54. Volckmar Happe,
Skepticism About the Recent Peace of Prague, 1635
55. Johann Georg Pforr,
Perceptions of the Peace of Prague, 1635
56. Johann Peter Lotichius,
The Relativization of Historical Truths as a Result of the War, 1647
The Peace of Westphalia 57.
The Peace of Westphalia, 1648
58.
The Messenger Bearing News of Peace, 1648
59. Caspar Preis,
Peace, but Not the End of the Consequences of War, 1648-1649
60. Hans Heberle,
An Uneasy Peace and Its Aftermath, 1648-1650
61.
The Experience of War, Anxiety Regarding the Future, and the Will to Reconstruct, 1647
Appendixes A Chronology of the Thirty Years War
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography