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Chapter 14

Wars and Violence: Thirty Years’ War

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Sources

  1. The Swearing in of the Lansquenets (1555)

  2. Lansquenets on the March (1st Half of the 16th Century)

  3. Captain of the Lansquenets and Men (1538)

  4. The War Begins—The Defenestration of Prague (May 1618)

  5. Defenestration of Prague on May 23, 1618 (1629)

  6. The Catholic Triumph—The Edict of Restitution (March 6, 1629)

  7. Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein (1631)

  8. A Local Apocalypse—The Sack of Magdeburg (1631)

  9. The Imperial Troops under Tilly Storm Magdeburg (1631)

  10. Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1631)

  11. Emperor Ferdinand II (17th century)

  12. The Murder of Wallenstein (c. 1634)

  13. Paul Fleming, An sich (1636)

  14. Andreas Gryphius, Menschliches Elende (1637)

  15. Johann Erasmus Kindermann, Fried, wo bist so lang geblieben (1642)

  16. Hans Ulrich Franck, Knight in Armor (1643)

  17. Title Page of the Drama, Peace-Wishing Germany by Johann Rist (1647)

  18. Peace Treaties of Westphalia (October 14/24, 1648)

  19. Peace of Westphalia: The Swearing of the Oath of Ratification of the Treaty of Münster (1648)

  20. Sophie-Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Ich, der häßlich bleiche Tod (1648)

  21. Michael Jacobi, Bist du denn blind, o Teutsches Reich (1649)

  22. The Face of War—H. J. C. Grimmelshausen’s The Adventurous Simplicissimus (1669)

  23. Political Music during the Thirty Years’ War (2017)

 
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