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The Thirty Years' War
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The first edition of The Thirty Years' War offered an unrivalled survey of a central period in European history. Drawing on a huge body of source material from different languages and countries throughout Europe, it provided a clear and comprehensive narrative and analytical account of the subject. It has established itself as the classic text with reviewers, students and the general reader.
This second edition has been thoroughly revised to include the very latest research. The updated bibliographical information provides an invaluable resource, synthesising the major work in the field, in all languages, up to 1996.
Written with great clarity and liveliness, the book brings alive the period in all its aspects. It covers the horrors of the war and the contorted politics of the period. It deals with all the major figures, including Wallerstein and Richelieu, Gustavus Adolphus and Tilly, the Winter King and the Habsburg emperors. For range and depth of coverage there is no other work like it. It has become the definitive book on the subject.
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General index
Aachen, Catholic magistracy of: Imperial commission to restore 33; overthrow of (1612) 30
absolutism in early modern Europe 76, 196
Acton, Lord, nineteenth-century historian: views of xiv
Adami von Murrhart, Adam, b. 1610, Rhineland; educated by Jesuits; entered Benedictine order 1628; prior of Murrhart (Wiirttemberg) from 1639; represented secularized Swabian abbeys at Westphalian peace congress; d. 1663: at Westphalian peace conference 162; views of 160
Adler Salvius see Salvius
Aelian, Greek military writer of second century AD, writings of 183
'Alais, Grace of' (28 June 1629), issued by Louis XIII of France to end Huguenot revolts 102
Albert of Austria, b. 1559, son of Emperor Maximilian II; Archduke; Cardinal 1577; first viceroy of Portugal for Philip II 1583-93; principal adviser to Philip II 1593-6; governed Netherlands for Philip II 1596-8; sovereign ruler, with Isabella, of South Netherlands 1598-1621: claim to succeed as emperor 30; death of (15 July 1621) 57; Netherlands government of 2, see also Archdukes
Aldringen, Johan von, b. 1588, Thionville (Luxemburg); entered Imperial (1618) and Bavarian (from 1623) armies; fought in Mantua (1630-1); commander of Bavarian army after Tilly's death 1632-4: death of 126; leads Bavarian army 125
Algiers (North African state): foreign policy of 2; Spanish attack on, projected (1618) 44—5
Allerheim (or Alerheim, Swabian village): Bavarians and Imperialists routed by French and Hessians in battle at (3 August 1645) 157, 158
Alsace (German territory, part of Further Austria): and France 131, 136, 152, 165,194; government of 78, 165; literature on 265; and Spain 35-9, 119; warfare in 58, 137, 150, 157
Alte Veste (fortress near Nuremberg): Wallenstein fortifies and withstands Swedish siege of (1632) 117, 183
Altmark (town in Prussia): Swedish-Polish truce signed at (1629) 91, 110, 127
Amalia of Solms, b. 1602, Hanau; married William V of Hesse-Kassel 1619; regent after his death 1637-50; d. 1651: army of see army of Hesse-Kassel; at Westphalian peace congress 155, 162; during Thirty Years' War 150, 165, 199; family connexions of 48
Amberg (capital of Upper Palatinate): Catholics in 81, 238n.l0; culture in 40
America, European colonies in 38, 153, 167
Amersfoort (Dutch town): captured by Spaniards (1629) 92
Amsterdam (Dutch city): economic power of 111
Andalusia, kingdom of: revolt against Philip IV (1648) 167
Andrea, Johann Valentin, b. 1586; Utopian writer and Lutheran pastor; from 1620 superintendent in Calw; court preacher to duke of Wiirttemberg from 1639; d. 1654: during Thirty Years' War 148
Angouleme, Charles de Valois, duke of, b. 1573, illegitimate son of King Charles IX of France; military leader in last religious French war and conspirator under Henry IV; imprisoned 1604-16; military commander and diplomat for Louis XIII; d....
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions
- Chronology
- I EUROPE BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE, 1555–1618
- II THE INDECISIVE WAR, 1618–1629
- III THE HABSBURGS VICTORIOUS
- IV TOTAL WAR
- V COUNTDOWN TO PEACE
- VI THE WAR IN MYTH, LEGEND AND HISTORY
- Maps
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliographical essay
- Index of authors
- General index