Eyewitness accounts of the Thirty Years War, 1618-48
By: Geoff Mortimer.
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 -- Personal narratives
Genres: Personal narratives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-210) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 What Happened in the Thirty Years War? 1; title: The course of the war 5; title: The issues 9; title: 2 Sources, Authors and Texts 15; title: Contemporaneous accounts 17; title: Partly contemporaneous accounts 22; title: Non-contemporaneous accounts 26; title: 3 Military Perspectives 29; title: Military life 29; title: Campaigning and fighting 38; title: 4 Civilian Perceptions 45; title: 5 Siege and Storm 59; title: 6 Faith and Experience 71; title: Religion and superstition 71; title: Plague, famine and depopulation 76; title: Signs of the times 80; title: 7 Counting the Cost 85; title: 8 Three Nuns' Accounts 96; title: 9 Priests and Politics 112; title: 10 Thomas Mallinger's Freiburg Chronicle 121; title: 11 Gallus Zembroth's Allensbach Chronicle 130; title: 12 The Memoirs of Colonel Augustin von Fritsch 140; title: 13 The Memoirs of Colonel Robert Monro 151; title: 14 A 'Myth of the All-destructive Fury'? 164; title: The war as reported 164; title: The war as perceived 174; title: 15 Why did they Write? 179; title: 16 Historical Sources or Ego-documents? 189; title: Appendix: Authors, Occupations and Locations 199; title: Map: Homes of Civilian Eyewitnesses 201.