{"product_id":"rethinking-europe-war-and-peace-in-the-early-modern-german-lands-9789004401914","title":"Rethinking Europe: War and Peace in the Early Modern German Lands","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) lies at the intersection of early modern and modern times. Frequently portrayed as the concluding chapter of the Reformation, it also points to the future by precipitating fundamental changes in the military, legal, political, religious, economic, and cultural arenas that came to mark a new, the modern era.  Prompted by the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the war, the contributors reconsider the event itself and contextualize it within the broader history of the Reformation, military conflicts, peace initiatives, and negotiations of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Acknowledgments  List of Illustrations and Tables    Introduction: Rethinking Europe: War and Peace in the Early  Modern German Lands   Sigrun Haude    Part 1: Within the War  1 Bravado, Martial Magic, and Masculine Performance in Early Modern Germany   B. Ann Tlusty    2 Discussion of the Just War in the Lutheran Funeral Sermons of the Seventeenth Century   Cornelia Niekus Moore    3 A Paper Victory Column (1664\/1675): Female Authorship, Devotional Memory, and Religious Community   Lynne Tatlock    4 Event and Emplotment: “Narrativizing” the Battle of Lützen   Nicolas Detering    5 Seeking Peace, Finding War: Supplication and Negotiation in Electoral Brandenburg during the Thirty Years’ War   Evan B. Johnson    6 Negotiating the Thirty Years’ War: Anna Sophia of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1598–1659) and Her Survival Strategies   Jill Bepler    7 Artful Negotiator: Peter Paul Rubens’ Intervention in the Cause of Catholic Bavaria   Susan Maxwell    Part 2: War and Periphery  8 “Make Peace, Not War”: an Anti-Propaganda Triumph in Johannes Sambucus’ Arcus aliquot triumphales et monumenta   Tamar Cholcman    9 Stopping an Ottoman Spy in Late Sixteenth-Century Istanbul: David Ungnad, Markus Penckner, and Austrian-Habsburg Intelligence in the Ottoman Capital   Tobias P. Graf    10 “The Imminent Danger of the Turks”: Ottoman Expansion, Hungarian Revolt, and Habsburg Fear of War (1670–1672)   Georg B. Michels    11 Conflict and Coexistence: the Case of Early Modern Upper Lusatia   Martin Christ    12 Dynastic Dislocation in the Thirty Years’ War: Lutheran Königsberg as Refuge for the Calvinist Houses of Hohenzollern and Wittelsbach   Sara Smart    13 Spoils of Knowledge: Looted Books in Uppsala University Library during the Seventeenth Century   Emma Hagström Molin    Part 3: Westphalian Peace and Post-War  14 Musicalische Friedens-Freud: the Westphalian Peace and Music in Protestant Nuremberg   Alexander J. Fisher    15 Picturing Peace: Johann Vogel’s Emblematical Meditations on Peace, Nürnberg 1649   Mara R. Wade    16 State (De-)Formation in Practice: Bohemian Fiscal-Financial Arrangements during the War of the Spanish Succession   Stephan Sander-Faes    17 Space, Peace, and Conflict in Post-Thirty Years’ War Villages   Marc R. Forster    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210777125207,"sku":"9789004401914","price":132.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rethinking-europe-war-and-peace-in-the-early-modern-german-lands-9789004401914","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}