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
2 - The Italian Dance
Early Modern Military Finance and the Mansfeld Regiment
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
The early seventeenth century was a period of economic crisis throughout Eurasia. Finance was developed enough for heads of state to raise and equip massive armies, but not developed enough to pay these armies regularly. Within the context of the Mansfeld Regiment’s financial problems, this chapter describes mutiny, desertion, female labor, and the challenges of finding small change during a financial crisis. The Mansfeld Regiment’s operations depended on a network of military finance in central Europe and northern Italy which was broadly ramifying but imperfect and disorganized. The loan that was supposed to support this regiment was delayed; by the time the money arrived, the regiment’s superiors may simply have forgotten about them. The Mansfeld Regiment collapsed two years later.
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- The War PeopleA Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War, pp. 24 - 40Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024