Cuius exercitus, eius religio? Konfession und Heerwesen im Zeitalter des Dreißigjährigen Kriegs

Two Weeks in Summer Soldiers and Others in Occupied Hesse-Kassel, 14–28 July 1625

“…Members of the military community may have been more likely to 'go along to get along' with comrades of other confessions, since seventeenth-century armies were multi-religious. 88 Georg Schmidt argues that by the end of the Thirty Years War, the concept of God lost its this-worldly power. 89 I believe this is too strong a thesis: Amalia Elizabeth, eventual Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel, was motivated by her Calvinist faith.…”