Beyond the Battlefield

This volume draws together an international team of scholars to explore the experience and significance of early modern European continental warfare from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Tryntje Helfferich is Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University, Lima. She studies the history of war, religion, and politics in early modern Europe. Her publications include The Essential Thirty Years War (2015) and The Iron Princess (2013). Howard Louthan is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota. His scholarship focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe. His publications include Theuerdank: The Illustrated Epic of a Renaissance Knight (2022) and Converting Bohemia (2009).

Part I: Learning, Culture, and the Arts 1. Skilful Captaines in Warlike Affaires: Learning the Art of War in Early Modern Europe, Tryntje Helfferich 2. Building the Foundations of a Surgical Armory: Johannes Scultetus in Ulm, c.1630-1645, Heidi Hausse 3. Sighs of War and Peace: Feeling Prayer through Song in Lutheran Germany during the Thirty Years War, Thomas Marks 4. The Fate of Jesuit Art and Architecture in Germany during the Thirty Years War, Jeffrey Chipps Smith 5. The Seventeenth-Century Culture of War: Three Commanders and their Legacy in the Arts, Kristoffer Neville Part II. Ideas and Ideologies of War 6. The Wars of Louis XIV and the Language of Europe, Daniel Riches 7. Calvinism and the Thirty Years War: Abraham Scultetus and the Palatinate, Howard Louthan 8. Troubles Concerning Religion: Causes, Parties, and Armed Conflict in the French Wars of Religion, Brian Sandberg 9. Why Serve in Wars in Seventeenth-Century Europe? The Case of Soldiers in Poland-Lithuania, Dariusz Köodziejczyk Part III. The Costs of War 10. At Home and Away: The Impact of Warfare upon Officers' Wives in Seventeenth-Century Sweden, Mary Elizabeth Ailes 11. Fighting War Pestilence: Habsburg Strategies of Disease Management during the Ottoman War (1737-1739), Sabine Jesner 12. Shifting Power Relations along the Baltic: Poles, Lithuanians, and Russians in the Great Northern War, Mindaugas Šapoka 13. Silent Victims: The Hidden Costs of War in Brandenburg, 1648-1700, Mary Lindemann