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

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

A Local Apocalypse—The Sack of Magdeburg (1631)

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

The Commander of Imperial Jewry—Josel von Rosheim (c. 1480–1554)

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

Letter by Anna Scharnschlager to Her Brother in Tyrol (c. 1535)

Observing the Ottomans—Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq in Istanbul (1552–62)

Rebels and Ottomans—The Habsburg Monarchy Makes Peace (1606)

The Bavarian Witchcraft Law (1611)

Swiss Decree against Anabaptists (October 25, 1585)

Regulating Jewish Life—Ordinance by Landgrave George I of Hesse (1585)

A Skeptic Looks at Witch Hunting—Friedrich von Spee (1631)

From the Martyrs’ Mirror: The Execution of Maria van Beckum and Her Sister-in-Law (17th century)