The Thirty Years War in the Mirror of the Chronicles of the Era from Zittau and Lauban: till the Transition of the Upper Lusatia from Bohemia to Saxony (1618-1635/37)

Abstract

The study deals with the image of the approximately first half of the Thirty Years War in the - mostly handwritten - sources of the urban provenance. It analyses paralelly the chronicle writings of the Upper-Lusatian towns Lauban and Zittau and compares it with the newest methodological approaches above of the german origins.

It focuses on following topics: the perception of the events in Bohemia (uprising of estates), the perception of the war, eschatological atmosphere, the coexistence of the burghers and soldats, religious differences.

Keywords

• Thirty Years War
• Lauban/Lubań
• Zittau/Žitava
• urban chronicle writings
• everydayness
• burghers
• uprising of estates (1618-1620)