Gerhild Scholz Williams, Ph.D. (1974), Washington University in St. Louis, is Barbara Thomas and David M. Thomas Professor in the Humanities as well as Vice Provost. She has published books and essays in medieval and early modern French and German literature, including Mediating Culture in the 17th Century German Novel (2014).Sigrun Haude, Ph.D. (1993), University of Cincinnati, is Associate Professor of History at that university. She has published on Anabaptism, Gender, and the Thirty Years’ War. Her monograph on The Thirty Years’ War: Experience and Management of a Disaster is forthcoming. Christian Schneider, Ph.D. (2007), Dr. habil. (2018), is Associate Professor of German at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published books and articles on medieval German literature and culture, including Hovezuht (2008).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Illustrations and TablesIntroduction: Rethinking Europe: War and Peace in the Early Modern German LandsSigrun HaudePart 1: Within the War1 Bravado, Martial Magic, and Masculine Performance in Early Modern GermanyB. Ann Tlusty2 Discussion of the Just War in the Lutheran Funeral Sermons of the Seventeenth CenturyCornelia Niekus Moore3 A Paper Victory Column (1664/1675): Female Authorship, Devotional Memory, and Religious CommunityLynne Tatlock4 Event and Emplotment: “Narrativizing” the Battle of LützenNicolas Detering5 Seeking Peace, Finding War: Supplication and Negotiation in Electoral Brandenburg during the Thirty Years’ WarEvan B. Johnson6 Negotiating the Thirty Years’ War: Anna Sophia of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1598–1659) and Her Survival StrategiesJill Bepler7 Artful Negotiator: Peter Paul Rubens’ Intervention in the Cause of Catholic BavariaSusan MaxwellPart 2: War and Periphery8 “Make Peace, Not War”: an Anti-Propaganda Triumph in Johannes Sambucus’ Arcus aliquot triumphales et monumentaTamar Cholcman9 Stopping an Ottoman Spy in Late Sixteenth-Century Istanbul: David Ungnad, Markus Penckner, and Austrian-Habsburg Intelligence in the Ottoman CapitalTobias P. Graf10 “The Imminent Danger of the Turks”: Ottoman Expansion, Hungarian Revolt, and Habsburg Fear of War (1670–1672)Georg B. Michels11 Conflict and Coexistence: the Case of Early Modern Upper LusatiaMartin Christ12 Dynastic Dislocation in the Thirty Years’ War: Lutheran Königsberg as Refuge for the Calvinist Houses of Hohenzollern and WittelsbachSara Smart13 Spoils of Knowledge: Looted Books in Uppsala University Library during the Seventeenth CenturyEmma Hagström MolinPart 3: Westphalian Peace and Post-War14 Musicalische Friedens-Freud: the Westphalian Peace and Music in Protestant NurembergAlexander J. Fisher15 Picturing Peace: Johann Vogel’s Emblematical Meditations on Peace, Nürnberg 1649Mara R. Wade16 State (De-)Formation in Practice: Bohemian Fiscal-Financial Arrangements during the War of the Spanish SuccessionStephan Sander-Faes17 Space, Peace, and Conflict in Post-Thirty Years’ War VillagesMarc R. ForsterIndex