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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Thirty Years' War"”.
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Paměť a historie rodiny Palliardi - dva koncepty studia rodinné minulosti
… far, it is assumed that this happened after the Thirty Years' War. The first documented Palliardi in Bohemia was Giovanni Pietro, a plasterer originally from the Lago di Como area, who is mentioned as a burgher of Prague's Lesser Town from 1680 and the ancestor of five generations (until 1870) of …
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The human horse: equine husbandry, anthropomorphic hierarchies, and daily life in Lower Saxony, 1550-1735
… product and a motor for reconstruction after the Thirty Years War, farmers bred and took care of the bulk of the German horse population on a daily basis throughout the early modern period. Farmers developed a new socioeconomic identity as tradesmen-farmers, which depended on emphasizing male …
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Lords of War: Maximilian I of Bavaria and the Institutions of Lordship in the Catholic League Army, 1619-1626
… League army's institutions during the early years of the Thirty Years War. It draws on letters, reports and other chancery documents from the Bavarian State Archive to examine how duke Maximilian I of Bavaria [r 1597-1651] and his officers re-negotiated their respective command privileges …
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Head Studies by Balthasar Denner
<p>The scars of the Thirty Years War had only begun to heal when Balthasar Denner was born in 1685. The war started in 1618 to determine whether the German States would be dominated by Catholic interests or by Protestantt . Entwined, however, with the religious alliances were a myriad of political …
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Public Buildings and Civic Pride: Town Halls in Northern Germany, 1200--1618
… immediately preceding the outbreak of the Thirty-Years War. The particular focus here is on three major communal structures in Lubeck, Bremen and Luneburg, all of which are distinguished by their complex architectural histories, in each case lasting for several centuries. These three town …
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The consort suite in the German-speaking lands (1660-1705)
… of the Holy Roman Empire. The end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 had hardly brought lasting peace to Germany: in France, Louis XIV had territorial ambitions, and this brought him into conflict with Leopold I, the Holy Roman Emperor. Despite the political machinations of the period, French …
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Historical Scholarship, Politics, and Identity in Bohemia, c.1650-1690
… composite monarchy in the aftermath of the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648). During the turbulent events of the first half of the seventeenth century, Bohemia underwent major political, religious, and socio-economic changes. With the reestablishment of peace, the polity experienced a …
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Gender as a resource of power at the early modern court of Württemberg, c. 1580-1630
… the worsening religious strife leading up to the Thirty Years’ War. Documents ranging from court ordinances, festival descriptions and servants registers, to courtly correspondences, juridical supplications and declarations have been consulted. This broad range of primary sources facilitates the …
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Scottish Gaelic women's poetry up to 1750
… to one song or one author. A song from the Thirty Years War, although included in the appendix, is not discussed, as the conflicts dealt with by the other poetesses of the period are those which directly concerned themselves and their clans. Likewise, the religious poems of SIleas na …
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Ambrosio Spínola y el ejército de Felipe III, 1569-1621
La presente Tesis Doctoral estudia la figura del genovés Ambrosio Spínola desde su nacimiento en 1569, hasta la muerte del rey Felipe III en 1621. Esta biografía de uno de los personajes más importantes de la Historia de España en la primera mitad del siglo XVII llena el vacío existente en el …
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Rome, before the State: Architecture and Persuasion in the Early Modern City
… quattrocento and the convoluted context of the Thirty Years’ War in the mid-seventeenth century. This is the period in which an increasingly polycentric and rational, political world was emerging. Central to this work is Paolo Prodi’s critical exposé of papal power over this period, which he …