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
3 - Righteous Guys
Military Society*
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 examines every muster roll from the Thirty Years War in the Saxon State Archives in Dresden to determine the demographics of the entire Saxon army during the entire war. In contrast to enduring stereotypes of early seventeenth-century soldiers as rootless social outcasts, these soldiers were recruited and often served near their homes. Both infantry and cavalry were far more urban than the average central European population. Soldiers called themselves righteous guys and lived within a dense thicket of social networks that included friendship, similar religion, and place of origin.
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- The War PeopleA Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War, pp. 41 - 57Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024