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).

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• Part I: Learning, Culture, and the Arts1. Skilful Captaines in Warlike Affaires: Learning the Art of War in Early Modern Europe, Tryntje Helfferich2. Building the Foundations of a Surgical Armory: Johannes Scultetus in Ulm, c.1630-1645, Heidi Hausse3. Sighs of War and Peace: Feeling Prayer through Song in Lutheran Germany during the Thirty Years War, Thomas Marks4. The Fate of Jesuit Art and Architecture in Germany during the Thirty Years War, Jeffrey Chipps Smith5. The Seventeenth-Century Culture of War: Three Commanders and their Legacy in the Arts,Kristoffer NevillePart II. Ideas and Ideologies of War6. The Wars of Louis XIV and the Language of Europe, Daniel Riches7. Calvinism and the Thirty Years War: Abraham Scultetus and the Palatinate, Howard Louthan8. Troubles Concerning Religion: Causes, Parties, and Armed Conflict in the French Wars of Religion, Brian Sandberg9. Why Serve in Wars in Seventeenth-Century Europe? The Case of Soldiers in Poland-Lithuania, Dariusz KołodziejczykPart III. The Costs of War10. At Home and Away: The Impact of Warfare upon Officers' Wives in Seventeenth-Century Sweden, Mary Elizabeth Ailes11. Fighting War Pestilence: Habsburg Strategies of Disease Management during the Ottoman War (1737–1739), Sabine Jesner12. Shifting Power Relations along the Baltic: Poles, Lithuanians, and Russians in the Great Northern War, Mindaugas Šapoka13. Silent Victims: The Hidden Costs of War in Brandenburg, 1648-1700, Mary Lindemann

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).

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• Part I: Learning, Culture, and the Arts1. Skilful Captaines in Warlike Affaires: Learning the Art of War in Early Modern Europe, Tryntje Helfferich2. Building the Foundations of a Surgical Armory: Johannes Scultetus in Ulm, c.1630-1645, Heidi Hausse3. Sighs of War and Peace: Feeling Prayer through Song in Lutheran Germany during the Thirty Years War, Thomas Marks4. The Fate of Jesuit Art and Architecture in Germany during the Thirty Years War, Jeffrey Chipps Smith5. The Seventeenth-Century Culture of War: Three Commanders and their Legacy in the Arts,Kristoffer NevillePart II. Ideas and Ideologies of War6. The Wars of Louis XIV and the Language of Europe, Daniel Riches7. Calvinism and the Thirty Years War: Abraham Scultetus and the Palatinate, Howard Louthan8. Troubles Concerning Religion: Causes, Parties, and Armed Conflict in the French Wars of Religion, Brian Sandberg9. Why Serve in Wars in Seventeenth-Century Europe? The Case of Soldiers in Poland-Lithuania, Dariusz KołodziejczykPart III. The Costs of War10. At Home and Away: The Impact of Warfare upon Officers' Wives in Seventeenth-Century Sweden, Mary Elizabeth Ailes11. Fighting War Pestilence: Habsburg Strategies of Disease Management during the Ottoman War (1737–1739), Sabine Jesner12. Shifting Power Relations along the Baltic: Poles, Lithuanians, and Russians in the Great Northern War, Mindaugas Šapoka13. Silent Victims: The Hidden Costs of War in Brandenburg, 1648-1700, Mary Lindemann

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).

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• Part I: Learning, Culture, and the Arts1. Skilful Captaines in Warlike Affaires: Learning the Art of War in Early Modern Europe, Tryntje Helfferich2. Building the Foundations of a Surgical Armory: Johannes Scultetus in Ulm, c.1630-1645, Heidi Hausse3. Sighs of War and Peace: Feeling Prayer through Song in Lutheran Germany during the Thirty Years War, Thomas Marks4. The Fate of Jesuit Art and Architecture in Germany during the Thirty Years War, Jeffrey Chipps Smith5. The Seventeenth-Century Culture of War: Three Commanders and their Legacy in the Arts,Kristoffer NevillePart II. Ideas and Ideologies of War6. The Wars of Louis XIV and the Language of Europe, Daniel Riches7. Calvinism and the Thirty Years War: Abraham Scultetus and the Palatinate, Howard Louthan8. Troubles Concerning Religion: Causes, Parties, and Armed Conflict in the French Wars of Religion, Brian Sandberg9. Why Serve in Wars in Seventeenth-Century Europe? The Case of Soldiers in Poland-Lithuania, Dariusz KołodziejczykPart III. The Costs of War10. At Home and Away: The Impact of Warfare upon Officers' Wives in Seventeenth-Century Sweden, Mary Elizabeth Ailes11. Fighting War Pestilence: Habsburg Strategies of Disease Management during the Ottoman War (1737–1739), Sabine Jesner12. Shifting Power Relations along the Baltic: Poles, Lithuanians, and Russians in the Great Northern War, Mindaugas Šapoka13. Silent Victims: The Hidden Costs of War in Brandenburg, 1648-1700, Mary Lindemann