Der Dreißigjährige Krieg: Zeugnisse vom Leben mit Gewalt (The Thirty Years War: Testimonies from ... more Der Dreißigjährige Krieg: Zeugnisse vom Leben mit Gewalt (The Thirty Years War: Testimonies from Living with Violence). Goettingen: Wallstein, 2018.
Historical treatments of the Thirty Years War have heretofore been mainly political and military history. These grand narratives neglect people’s perceptions and experiences of violence, survival, and remembrance, as well as how the contemporary media presented events.
Hans Medick’s documentary micro-history provides new insights into how people lived with violence in the Thirty Years War und how this violence was perceived. By choosing an episodic non-linear approach to the history of this war, and by avoiding retelling an epic narrative, he arrives at an alternative assessment of its consequences and the uncertain peace concluded in 1648. The book uses numerous firsthand accounts, many of them never published before, as well as materials from the nascent media of the time. The experience of violence is examined from the perspective of individual women and men from all levels of society, such as mercenaries and soldiers, peasants, city dwellers, and noblemen. Medick thereby brings to light astounding, even horrifying, findings that cast new light on the complex events of the war.
Medick has not only made accessible how contemporaries perceived and coped with the everyday experiences of the war, but he has also written a new, historical-anthropological, and medial history of the Thirty Years War.
Hans Medick has been a pioneer of micro-history and the history of everyday life. He was a tenured fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for History in Göttingen and Professor of History at the University of Erfurt. He also taught at the University of Göttingen, the University of California - Los Angeles, Washington University in St. Louis, Johns Hopkins University, as well as the Universities of Basel and Zurich.
His other publications include his magnum opus, Weben und Überleben in Laichingen 1650-1900: Lokalgeschichte als Allgemeine Geschichte (Göttingen 1996), the collection Selbstzeugnis und Person: Transkulturelle Perspektiven, co-edited with Claudia UIbrich and Angelika Schaser (Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2012), and the textbook Experiencing the Thirty Years War: A Brief History with Documents, with Benjamin Marschke (Boston, New York 2013).
Deutsches Abstract:
Der Dreißigjährige Krieg »aus der Nähe«, untersucht und erzählt aus Dokumenten.
Die historischen Abhandlungen zum Dreißigjährigen Krieg bestehen bisher überwiegend aus Großerzählungen der Politik- und Militärgeschichte. Was darin jedoch entschieden zu kurz kommt, sind die konkreten Gewalterfahrungen, Lebensbewältigungen und Erinnerungen der Menschen sowie deren Darstellung in den zeitgenössischen Medien.
Das Buch von Hans Medick bringt hier neue Einsichten. In Form einer dokumentarischen Mikro-Geschichte führt es das Leben mit Gewalt im Dreißigjährigen Krieg vor Augen. Zahlreiche, zum Teil unveröfentlichte Selbstzeugnisse und die aufkommenden Massenmedien der Zeit bringen erstaunliche, ja erschreckende Befunde zu Tage. Es ist das Erleben von Gewalt aus der Perspektive einzelner Personen aller gesellschaftlichen Schichten, wie Söldner und Soldaten, Bauern, Bürger und Adelige, das neues Licht wirft auf einen komplexen kriegerischen Ereigniszusammenhang.
Damit macht Hans Medick nicht nur die Wahrnehmungen und Verarbeitungen des Kriegsalltags zugänglich, er schreibt auch eine neue, historischanthropologisch fundierte Geschichte des Dreißigjährigen Krieges.
One of the most momentous and destructive wars in European history, the Thirty Years War has long... more One of the most momentous and destructive wars in European history, the Thirty Years War has long been studied for its diplomatic, political, and military consequences. Yet the actual participants in this religiously motivated, seemingly endless conflict have largely been ignored. Hans Medick and Benjamin Marschke reveal the Thirty Years War from the perspective of those who lived it. Their introduction provides important insights into the roiling religious and political landscape from which the war emerged, as well as a thoughtful examination of the war's stages and enduring significance. An unprecedented collection of personal accounts, many of them translated for the first time into English, combine with visual sources to convey directly to students the experience of early modern warfare. Incisive document headnotes, maps and illustrations, a chronology, questions to consider, and a bibliography enrich students' understanding of this fateful war.
Zeitschrift: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte = Revue suisse d'histoire = Rivist... more Zeitschrift: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte = Revue suisse d'histoire = Rivista storica svizzera
If one intervention could be said to be emblematic of the ‘memory boom’ of the late twentieth cen... more If one intervention could be said to be emblematic of the ‘memory boom’ of the late twentieth century, it was that of Pierre Nora, whose concept of lieux de mémoire stimulated a generation’s worth of discussion and research on memory culture. Étienne François and Hagen Schulze’s three-volume Deutsche Erinnerungsorte subsequently offered up a wealth of examples of symbols and sites of remembrance for every period and type of German history. Yet Nora’s own work was shaped to a large extent by modernist agendas, and by a desire to explain focal points of French national identity. It rested on a series of assumptions about premodern memory, often characterized as cohesive and unchanging. A close look at the memory practices of the late medieval and early modern periods reveals, however, the myriad and shifting uses of premodern memory, both official and unofficial. Chronicles and annals, images and architecture, festivals and other rituals all formed part of a lively and dynamic commemorative culture that has long been an object of study for medievalists and early modernists, augmented most recently by a growing interest in ego-documents as mediators of memory. How, if at all, did premodern modes of cultural remembering differ from modern? Does the concept of places of remembrance (lieux de mémoire) have any explanatory power in an age before nationalism? How far can medievalists and early modernists investigate the complex interplay between individual and collective or social memory? Can recent interest in the history of emotions and in the paradigm of trauma provide useful stimuli? The editors invited Matthew Lundin (Wheaton), Hans Medick (Berlin), Mitchell Merback (Johns Hopkins), Judith Pollmann (Leiden) and Susanne Rau (Erfurt) to consider these and other questions.
Die Erinnerung an die Reformation, ihre Entstehungsbedingungen, ihren Verlauf und ihre Konsequenz... more Die Erinnerung an die Reformation, ihre Entstehungsbedingungen, ihren Verlauf und ihre Konsequenzen, bildet einen festen Bestandteil des Luthertums. Aber auch die Luther-und Reformationsforschung verdankt dem Gedächtnis der Reformation und der ...
Publikationsansicht. 20132881. Quo Vadis Historische Anthropologie? Geschichtsforschung zwischen ... more Publikationsansicht. 20132881. Quo Vadis Historische Anthropologie? Geschichtsforschung zwischen Historischer Kulturwissenschaft und Mikrohistorie (2003).Medick, Hans. Details der Publikation. Download, http://edoc.mpg.de/122773. ...
... vom individualistischen Vorurteil des Historismus insofern nicht frei, als sie die Vermittlun... more ... vom individualistischen Vorurteil des Historismus insofern nicht frei, als sie die Vermittlung der subjektiven und objektiven Momente des historischen Prozesses haupt-sächlich als ein Problem der ... Die historische Sozialwissenschaft macht so, gewisserma ...
Der Dreißigjährige Krieg: Zeugnisse vom Leben mit Gewalt (The Thirty Years War: Testimonies from ... more Der Dreißigjährige Krieg: Zeugnisse vom Leben mit Gewalt (The Thirty Years War: Testimonies from Living with Violence). Goettingen: Wallstein, 2018.
Historical treatments of the Thirty Years War have heretofore been mainly political and military history. These grand narratives neglect people’s perceptions and experiences of violence, survival, and remembrance, as well as how the contemporary media presented events.
Hans Medick’s documentary micro-history provides new insights into how people lived with violence in the Thirty Years War und how this violence was perceived. By choosing an episodic non-linear approach to the history of this war, and by avoiding retelling an epic narrative, he arrives at an alternative assessment of its consequences and the uncertain peace concluded in 1648. The book uses numerous firsthand accounts, many of them never published before, as well as materials from the nascent media of the time. The experience of violence is examined from the perspective of individual women and men from all levels of society, such as mercenaries and soldiers, peasants, city dwellers, and noblemen. Medick thereby brings to light astounding, even horrifying, findings that cast new light on the complex events of the war.
Medick has not only made accessible how contemporaries perceived and coped with the everyday experiences of the war, but he has also written a new, historical-anthropological, and medial history of the Thirty Years War.
Hans Medick has been a pioneer of micro-history and the history of everyday life. He was a tenured fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for History in Göttingen and Professor of History at the University of Erfurt. He also taught at the University of Göttingen, the University of California - Los Angeles, Washington University in St. Louis, Johns Hopkins University, as well as the Universities of Basel and Zurich.
His other publications include his magnum opus, Weben und Überleben in Laichingen 1650-1900: Lokalgeschichte als Allgemeine Geschichte (Göttingen 1996), the collection Selbstzeugnis und Person: Transkulturelle Perspektiven, co-edited with Claudia UIbrich and Angelika Schaser (Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2012), and the textbook Experiencing the Thirty Years War: A Brief History with Documents, with Benjamin Marschke (Boston, New York 2013).
Deutsches Abstract:
Der Dreißigjährige Krieg »aus der Nähe«, untersucht und erzählt aus Dokumenten.
Die historischen Abhandlungen zum Dreißigjährigen Krieg bestehen bisher überwiegend aus Großerzählungen der Politik- und Militärgeschichte. Was darin jedoch entschieden zu kurz kommt, sind die konkreten Gewalterfahrungen, Lebensbewältigungen und Erinnerungen der Menschen sowie deren Darstellung in den zeitgenössischen Medien.
Das Buch von Hans Medick bringt hier neue Einsichten. In Form einer dokumentarischen Mikro-Geschichte führt es das Leben mit Gewalt im Dreißigjährigen Krieg vor Augen. Zahlreiche, zum Teil unveröfentlichte Selbstzeugnisse und die aufkommenden Massenmedien der Zeit bringen erstaunliche, ja erschreckende Befunde zu Tage. Es ist das Erleben von Gewalt aus der Perspektive einzelner Personen aller gesellschaftlichen Schichten, wie Söldner und Soldaten, Bauern, Bürger und Adelige, das neues Licht wirft auf einen komplexen kriegerischen Ereigniszusammenhang.
Damit macht Hans Medick nicht nur die Wahrnehmungen und Verarbeitungen des Kriegsalltags zugänglich, er schreibt auch eine neue, historischanthropologisch fundierte Geschichte des Dreißigjährigen Krieges.
One of the most momentous and destructive wars in European history, the Thirty Years War has long... more One of the most momentous and destructive wars in European history, the Thirty Years War has long been studied for its diplomatic, political, and military consequences. Yet the actual participants in this religiously motivated, seemingly endless conflict have largely been ignored. Hans Medick and Benjamin Marschke reveal the Thirty Years War from the perspective of those who lived it. Their introduction provides important insights into the roiling religious and political landscape from which the war emerged, as well as a thoughtful examination of the war's stages and enduring significance. An unprecedented collection of personal accounts, many of them translated for the first time into English, combine with visual sources to convey directly to students the experience of early modern warfare. Incisive document headnotes, maps and illustrations, a chronology, questions to consider, and a bibliography enrich students' understanding of this fateful war.
Zeitschrift: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte = Revue suisse d'histoire = Rivist... more Zeitschrift: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte = Revue suisse d'histoire = Rivista storica svizzera
If one intervention could be said to be emblematic of the ‘memory boom’ of the late twentieth cen... more If one intervention could be said to be emblematic of the ‘memory boom’ of the late twentieth century, it was that of Pierre Nora, whose concept of lieux de mémoire stimulated a generation’s worth of discussion and research on memory culture. Étienne François and Hagen Schulze’s three-volume Deutsche Erinnerungsorte subsequently offered up a wealth of examples of symbols and sites of remembrance for every period and type of German history. Yet Nora’s own work was shaped to a large extent by modernist agendas, and by a desire to explain focal points of French national identity. It rested on a series of assumptions about premodern memory, often characterized as cohesive and unchanging. A close look at the memory practices of the late medieval and early modern periods reveals, however, the myriad and shifting uses of premodern memory, both official and unofficial. Chronicles and annals, images and architecture, festivals and other rituals all formed part of a lively and dynamic commemorative culture that has long been an object of study for medievalists and early modernists, augmented most recently by a growing interest in ego-documents as mediators of memory. How, if at all, did premodern modes of cultural remembering differ from modern? Does the concept of places of remembrance (lieux de mémoire) have any explanatory power in an age before nationalism? How far can medievalists and early modernists investigate the complex interplay between individual and collective or social memory? Can recent interest in the history of emotions and in the paradigm of trauma provide useful stimuli? The editors invited Matthew Lundin (Wheaton), Hans Medick (Berlin), Mitchell Merback (Johns Hopkins), Judith Pollmann (Leiden) and Susanne Rau (Erfurt) to consider these and other questions.
Die Erinnerung an die Reformation, ihre Entstehungsbedingungen, ihren Verlauf und ihre Konsequenz... more Die Erinnerung an die Reformation, ihre Entstehungsbedingungen, ihren Verlauf und ihre Konsequenzen, bildet einen festen Bestandteil des Luthertums. Aber auch die Luther-und Reformationsforschung verdankt dem Gedächtnis der Reformation und der ...
Publikationsansicht. 20132881. Quo Vadis Historische Anthropologie? Geschichtsforschung zwischen ... more Publikationsansicht. 20132881. Quo Vadis Historische Anthropologie? Geschichtsforschung zwischen Historischer Kulturwissenschaft und Mikrohistorie (2003).Medick, Hans. Details der Publikation. Download, http://edoc.mpg.de/122773. ...
... vom individualistischen Vorurteil des Historismus insofern nicht frei, als sie die Vermittlun... more ... vom individualistischen Vorurteil des Historismus insofern nicht frei, als sie die Vermittlung der subjektiven und objektiven Momente des historischen Prozesses haupt-sächlich als ein Problem der ... Die historische Sozialwissenschaft macht so, gewisserma ...
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Historical treatments of the Thirty Years War have heretofore been mainly political and military history. These grand narratives neglect people’s perceptions and experiences of violence, survival, and remembrance, as well as how the contemporary media presented events.
Hans Medick’s documentary micro-history provides new insights into how people lived with violence in the Thirty Years War und how this violence was perceived. By choosing an episodic non-linear approach to the history of this war, and by avoiding retelling an epic narrative, he arrives at an alternative assessment of its consequences and the uncertain peace concluded in 1648. The book uses numerous firsthand accounts, many of them never published before, as well as materials from the nascent media of the time. The experience of violence is examined from the perspective of individual women and men from all levels of society, such as mercenaries and soldiers, peasants, city dwellers, and noblemen. Medick thereby brings to light astounding, even horrifying, findings that cast new light on the complex events of the war.
Medick has not only made accessible how contemporaries perceived and coped with the everyday experiences of the war, but he has also written a new, historical-anthropological, and medial history of the Thirty Years War.
Hans Medick has been a pioneer of micro-history and the history of everyday life. He was a tenured fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for History in Göttingen and Professor of History at the University of Erfurt. He also taught at the University of Göttingen, the University of California - Los Angeles, Washington University in St. Louis, Johns Hopkins University, as well as the Universities of Basel and Zurich.
His other publications include his magnum opus, Weben und Überleben in Laichingen 1650-1900: Lokalgeschichte als Allgemeine Geschichte (Göttingen 1996), the collection Selbstzeugnis und Person: Transkulturelle Perspektiven, co-edited with Claudia UIbrich and Angelika Schaser (Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2012), and the textbook Experiencing the Thirty Years War: A Brief History with Documents, with Benjamin Marschke (Boston, New York 2013).
Deutsches Abstract:
Der Dreißigjährige Krieg »aus der Nähe«, untersucht und erzählt aus Dokumenten.
Die historischen Abhandlungen zum Dreißigjährigen Krieg bestehen bisher überwiegend aus Großerzählungen der Politik- und Militärgeschichte. Was darin jedoch entschieden zu kurz kommt, sind die konkreten Gewalterfahrungen, Lebensbewältigungen und Erinnerungen der Menschen sowie deren Darstellung in den zeitgenössischen Medien.
Das Buch von Hans Medick bringt hier neue Einsichten. In Form einer dokumentarischen Mikro-Geschichte führt es das Leben mit Gewalt im Dreißigjährigen Krieg vor Augen. Zahlreiche, zum Teil unveröfentlichte Selbstzeugnisse und die aufkommenden Massenmedien der Zeit bringen erstaunliche, ja erschreckende Befunde zu Tage. Es ist das Erleben von Gewalt aus der Perspektive einzelner Personen aller gesellschaftlichen Schichten, wie Söldner und Soldaten, Bauern, Bürger und Adelige, das neues Licht wirft auf einen komplexen kriegerischen Ereigniszusammenhang.
Damit macht Hans Medick nicht nur die Wahrnehmungen und Verarbeitungen des Kriegsalltags zugänglich, er schreibt auch eine neue, historischanthropologisch fundierte Geschichte des Dreißigjährigen Krieges.
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Historical treatments of the Thirty Years War have heretofore been mainly political and military history. These grand narratives neglect people’s perceptions and experiences of violence, survival, and remembrance, as well as how the contemporary media presented events.
Hans Medick’s documentary micro-history provides new insights into how people lived with violence in the Thirty Years War und how this violence was perceived. By choosing an episodic non-linear approach to the history of this war, and by avoiding retelling an epic narrative, he arrives at an alternative assessment of its consequences and the uncertain peace concluded in 1648. The book uses numerous firsthand accounts, many of them never published before, as well as materials from the nascent media of the time. The experience of violence is examined from the perspective of individual women and men from all levels of society, such as mercenaries and soldiers, peasants, city dwellers, and noblemen. Medick thereby brings to light astounding, even horrifying, findings that cast new light on the complex events of the war.
Medick has not only made accessible how contemporaries perceived and coped with the everyday experiences of the war, but he has also written a new, historical-anthropological, and medial history of the Thirty Years War.
Hans Medick has been a pioneer of micro-history and the history of everyday life. He was a tenured fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for History in Göttingen and Professor of History at the University of Erfurt. He also taught at the University of Göttingen, the University of California - Los Angeles, Washington University in St. Louis, Johns Hopkins University, as well as the Universities of Basel and Zurich.
His other publications include his magnum opus, Weben und Überleben in Laichingen 1650-1900: Lokalgeschichte als Allgemeine Geschichte (Göttingen 1996), the collection Selbstzeugnis und Person: Transkulturelle Perspektiven, co-edited with Claudia UIbrich and Angelika Schaser (Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2012), and the textbook Experiencing the Thirty Years War: A Brief History with Documents, with Benjamin Marschke (Boston, New York 2013).
Deutsches Abstract:
Der Dreißigjährige Krieg »aus der Nähe«, untersucht und erzählt aus Dokumenten.
Die historischen Abhandlungen zum Dreißigjährigen Krieg bestehen bisher überwiegend aus Großerzählungen der Politik- und Militärgeschichte. Was darin jedoch entschieden zu kurz kommt, sind die konkreten Gewalterfahrungen, Lebensbewältigungen und Erinnerungen der Menschen sowie deren Darstellung in den zeitgenössischen Medien.
Das Buch von Hans Medick bringt hier neue Einsichten. In Form einer dokumentarischen Mikro-Geschichte führt es das Leben mit Gewalt im Dreißigjährigen Krieg vor Augen. Zahlreiche, zum Teil unveröfentlichte Selbstzeugnisse und die aufkommenden Massenmedien der Zeit bringen erstaunliche, ja erschreckende Befunde zu Tage. Es ist das Erleben von Gewalt aus der Perspektive einzelner Personen aller gesellschaftlichen Schichten, wie Söldner und Soldaten, Bauern, Bürger und Adelige, das neues Licht wirft auf einen komplexen kriegerischen Ereigniszusammenhang.
Damit macht Hans Medick nicht nur die Wahrnehmungen und Verarbeitungen des Kriegsalltags zugänglich, er schreibt auch eine neue, historischanthropologisch fundierte Geschichte des Dreißigjährigen Krieges.