Book contents
- The War People
- The War People
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Money, Dates, Ranks, and Measurements
- The People
- Introduction
- 1 Display All Good Will and Keep Moving
- Scene I Hieronymus Sebastian Schutze and Hans Devil
- 2 The Italian Dance
- 3 Righteous Guys
- 4 The Spinner-Lords of Saint Gallen
- 5 The Kind of People I Know You Will Like
- 6 Elizabeth Sanner and the Dead Men
- 7 To Be Happy Doing What You Want
- Scene II Hieronymus Sebastian Schutze, Felix Steter, and Wolfgang Winkelmann
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Elizabeth Sanner and the Dead Men
Mansfeld Interactions with Their Surroundings
from Scene I - Hieronymus Sebastian Schutze and Hans Devil
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2024
- The War People
- The War People
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Money, Dates, Ranks, and Measurements
- The People
- Introduction
- 1 Display All Good Will and Keep Moving
- Scene I Hieronymus Sebastian Schutze and Hans Devil
- 2 The Italian Dance
- 3 Righteous Guys
- 4 The Spinner-Lords of Saint Gallen
- 5 The Kind of People I Know You Will Like
- 6 Elizabeth Sanner and the Dead Men
- 7 To Be Happy Doing What You Want
- Scene II Hieronymus Sebastian Schutze, Felix Steter, and Wolfgang Winkelmann
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter analyzes interactions between the Mansfeld Regiment and its surroundings, including confessional conflict, fights, burials, and the regiment’s effect on local demographics. The Mansfelders were both Protestant and Catholic, but the regiment was quartered in a Catholic land. Its members fought with or plundered locals. However, its effects on baptism, marriage, and death rates in most of the areas I analyzed were ambiguous. The exception is tiny Pontestura: Not only was the effect of numerous armies magnified in such a small town, but wrongdoings there were less likely to come to the attention of the authorities. I also locate a woman who may have been the wife of the enigmatic regimental secretary Mattheus Steiner in local baptismal records, exemplifying that interactions between Mansfelders and locals were not solely hostile. This chapter examines military death rates, which were awful even outside of combat, and may find evidence of the great Italian plague of 1629–1631 in the deaths of soldiers and other marginal men.
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- The War PeopleA Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War, pp. 98 - 117Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024