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
4 - The Spinner-Lords of Saint Gallen
Small Group Cohesion and Military Social Networks as Seen through a Theft of Fabric
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
On November 30, 1625, a substantial quantity of fabric from a shipment intended for the Mansfeld Regiment’s third-most-honorable company went missing. The regimental legal establishment investigated the theft but covered up one key detail, revealed at the end of this chapter. This incident sheds light on the way this company interacted with a cloth trade that spanned Europe, in addition to the criminal activities of its captain/owner, regimental quartermaster Wolfgang Winckelmann. The investigation revealed that Winckelmann’s flag-bearer Hieronymus Sebastian Schutze also stole some fabric and distributed it to some men in this company. These men can be traced using social network analysis. This chapter argues that the concept of small group cohesion should be supplemented with the broader concept of military social networks.
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- The War PeopleA Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War, pp. 58 - 76Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024