Coping with Life During the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69494-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 69, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Studies in Central European Histories

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 as women and men’s unrelenting initiatives to stem the war’s negative consequences. Through these close-ups, Sigrun Haude shows that experiences during the Thirty Years’ War were much more diverse and often more perplexing than a straightforward story line of violence and destruction can capture. Life during the Thirty Years’ War was not a homogenous vale of gloom and doom, but a multifaceted story that was often heartbreaking, yet, at times, also uplifting.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haude, Sigrun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

1 Introduction: The Lay of the Land

1 Focus – Historiography – Methodology

2 The Thirty Years’ War, Abridged

3 Places and Characters

2 Experiences of War

1 Fear and Vulnerability

2 Instability and Disruption

3 Poverty – Hunger – Dearth

4 Violence and Human Concern: World Views Turned Upside Down

3 Governmental Support: Hopes, Measures, and Realities

1 Protection against Violence

2 Stemming Deprivation and Disease

3 Averting Spiritual Harm and Promoting a Decent Life

4 Coping with the Experiences of War

1 To Flee or Not to Flee

2 News and Information

3 Pragmatism, Resilience, and Initiative

4 Connections, Communities, and Space

5 Religion and Other Formative Forces

6 Lifting Up the Spirit

5 Conclusion: Life Beyond Devastation

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sigrun Haude, Ph.D. (1993), is Walter C. Langsam Professor of European History at the University of Cincinnati. She has published on the Thirty Years’ War, gender, and Anabaptism, including In the Shadow of “Savage Wolves” (Humanities Press, 2000).