Thirty Years War

Thirty Years War Interpreted by a Politologist

Prokopiev, A. Yu. Tridtsatiletnyaya voyna vzglyadom politologa [Thirty Years War Interpreted by a Politologist], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2018. Vol. 4 (1). P. 139–168.

Andrey Yur’evich Prokopiev, doctor of History, professor, Institute of History, St. Petersburg State University (199034, Rossiya, Sankt-Peterburg, Mendeleevskaya liniya, 5)

Language: Russian

The article is dedicated to the book of the German political scientist Herfried Münkler, published on the anniversary of the beginning of the Thirty Years’ War with the author’s political science postulates being critically examined. Is it possible to see the Thirty Years’ War as the forerunner of modern «hybrid» and «asymmetric» wars? What are the lessons of this war for modernity and can we use the laws of modern political science to analyze the early modern times? Is the «interference» of modern sciences in the field of historical research academically correct? The work of the well-known German scholar’s is analyzed in accordance with historical approach, taking into account the latest literature devoted to the Thirty Years’ War. It is emphasized that the laws of political science, projected into the past, can hardly help to reconstruct the historical panorama of events. They only emerge further questions and doubts. For the successful argumentation of the theses, it is necessary to take into account the point of view of historians, specialized in a certain epoch.

Key Words: Thirty Years’ War, Holy Roman Empire, Peace of Westphalia, Habsburger, German Estates, asymmetrical and hybridical war, Early Modern period

URL: http://proslogion.ru/41-prokopiev/

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Spinne und Spinola. Das Bild Spaniens in der protestantischen Flugblattpublizistik während des Dreißigjährigen Krieges

Kuhlmann, Y. Spinne und Spinola. Das Bild Spaniens in der protestantischen Flugblattpublizistik während des Dreißigjährigen Krieges, in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2018. Vol. 4 (2). P. 158–178.

Yannika KuhlmannDepartment of History, Heidelberg University (69117, Germany, Heidelberg, Grabengasse 3–5; aud. 229)

Language: Deutsch

The Thirty Years War can be understood as the scene of a transnational field of conflict inwhich various parties and actors were involved. The Spanish line of the Habsburgs was one of these actors and it carried out various conflicts because of its overarching interest in power. Furthermore, the Thirty Years War is also referred to in research as the War of the Feathers, in which the warring parties dealt with political, denominational and social issues on a medial level. This article deals with the negative depiction of the Spanish monarchy during the early period of the Thirty Years War. It examines the continuity of pre-existing anti-Spanish stereotypes within the medium of the leaflet. First an introduction to the broader historical context, the role of the Spanish monarchy in the Thirty Years War, the medium of the leaflet with its characteristics as well as an explication of and some pre-existing anti-Spanish stereotypes is given. Against this backdrop two leaflets from 1621 are analyzed. The approach is limited to leaflets of German-speaking context and protestant authorship. On the first leaflet a key figure of the Thirty Years War, the military leader in services of the Spanish monarchy Ambrosius Spinola, is presented. The second leaflet shows a constellation of animal allegories. Finally, the adoption of already existing stereotypes, in a manner specific for leaflets, can be observed. This article wants to present how the political opponent was assimilated with stereotypical allocation and was presented to the readers as an enemy and responsible for the suffering during the war.

Key Words: Thirty Years War, stereotypes, Spanish monarchy, leaflets, Holy Roman Empire

URL: http://proslogion.ru/42-kuhlmann/

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The Thirty Years War or Interwaving of the conflicts?

Ivonin, Yu. E. Tridtsatiletnyaya voyna ili perepletenie konfliktov? [The Thirty Years War or Interwaving of the conflicts?], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2018. Vol. 4 (2). P. 142–157.

Yury Evgenievich Ivonin, doctor of History, professor, Merited Scientist of Russia, Smolensk State University (214000, Rossiya, Smolensk, ulitsa Przheval’skogo, 4)

Language: Russian

The author reflects on the theme, what character the Thirty Years’ War had, the 400th Anniversary of which is taken place in 2018. He cites some definitions from the manual of the Middle Ages, «World History», the popular works of Russian authors and compares these with the number of definitions by foreign authors. He concludes that this war was simultaneously European, German and Religious war. As European war it consisted of separate little wars, which were the parts of one great all-European war in the consciousness of the contemporaries.

Key Words: Thirty Years’ War, Holy Roman Empire, Germany, Europe, religion, Emperor, princes

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On the death of a hero and negligence of servants: Duke Magnus of Württemberg in the mirror of a posthumous investigation (1622)

Prokopiev, A. Yu., Lurie, Z. A., O gibeli geroya i neradivosti slug: Gertsog Magnus Vyurtembergskiy v zerkale posmertnogo rassledovaniya (1622 g.) [On the death of a hero and negligence of servants: Duke Magnus of Württemberg in the mirror of a posthumous investigation (1622)], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2019. Vol. 5 (1). P. 36–71.

Andrey Yur’evich Prokopiev, doctor of History, professor, Saint-Petersburg State University (199034, Rossiya, Sankt-Peterburg, Universitetskaya nab., 7/9)

Zinaida Andreevna Lurie, doctor of History, assistant lecturer, Faculty of foreign languages, Saint-Petersburg State University (199034, Rossiya, Sankt-Peterburg, Universitetskaya nab., 7/9)

Language: Russian

The article focuses on the phenomenon of the birth of a «hero» and «heroic myth» analyzing the example of the Duke Magnus of Württemberg (1594–1622). The younger brother of the ruling Duke of Württemberg Magnus died in the battle of Wimpfen on May 6, 1622, fighting on the side of the Protestant forces against the army of the Catholic League. The circumstances of his death prompted an investigation into the circle of the duke’s closest servants. From the results of this investigation, as well as from the reviews of contemporaries, the image of the sovereign martyr, one of the first in Protestant Germany during the Thirty Years War arose. What was the component of this myth? What were the main accents? What was the strategy of dynastic legitimation of the ruling House of Württemberg? How typical was the portrait of the hero in comparison with subsequent cults, especially the Swedish king Gustav Adolf, who died near Lutzen in 1632? To answer these questions the fund of unpublished documents from the main state archive of Stuttgart was used.
The article was written as part of the RFBR project «Europe in the era of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation: diplomatic correspondence of European courts of the 16th – first half of the 17th centuries» (17-01-00121-OGN).

Key Words: Württemberg, Thirty Years War, Magnus of Württemberg, nobility, Holy Roman Empire, Germany

URL: http://proslogion.ru/51-prokopiev/

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