This is a study of German villages during the Thirty Years' War. It shows how diverse interests interested in the village, and how those interests were transfor

This is a study of German villages during the Thirty Years' War. It shows how diverse interests interested in the village, and how those interests were transfor

This book examines the nature and extent of changes in communal structures and self-definition among Jews and Christians in Germany during the century before th

“A vivid & sensitive portrait of a small, tradition-bound community coming to terms with modernity under the most adverse of conditions.” —Observer Review

Twice in the first decades of the seventeenth century the Julich-Kleve succession crises placed Europe on the verge of war. The triumph of diplomacy in the face