“‘If protection rackets represent organized crime at its smoothest,’ argues Tilly, ‘then war making and state making—quintessential protection rackets with the advantage of legitimacy—qualify as our largest examples of organized crime.’”
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/military-revolution-and-the-new-state-power
Thirty Years’ War camp unearthed in Germany reveals daily life and mysteries
Archaeologists in Bavaria have uncovered the remains of one of the largest known fortified military camps of the Thirty Years’ War, in Stein near Nuremberg, Germany...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/04/thirty-years-war-camp-unearthed-in-germany/
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dont be fooled, if nothing is done about it, it wont matter in what nationalistic state you are "amongst your own"; a chosen few will be mightier than any of those worn down entities.
divide et impera!
loads of stuff in pic description
During the #ThirtyYearsWar she turned into an officially accredited #emdiplomat – an absolute exceptional case because most female #earlymodern #diplomats were acting informally. In 1638 Renée du Bec-Crespin was offically entrusted to hand over instructions regarding the negotiations on #Breisach fortress to her husband.
In 1645 she was dispatched to #Poland as ambassadrice extraordinare in the context of the marriage between Maria de Gonzaga and Polish king Wladyslaw IV. Although it was quite normal that (experienced) ladies-in-waiting accompanied a princely bride when she moved to her new #dynasty, these missions usually were led by men. Renée Bec-Crespin was made head of the embassy and thus the first and most distinguished representative of the royal family. This once more emphasises her exceptional standing as one of only a very few #womeninmalefields. (2/3)
#emdiplomacy #adventCalendar #history #histodons #AdventCalendar2024
Druckfahne für 2024: "Nachrichtenkritik und Kritik des Nachrichtenwesens im Kriegsjahr 1632. Beispiele aus bildtragenden Flugdrucken des Dreißigjährigen Krieges", in: Medium Buch 4 (2024), 137-169. OA
If you enjoy calming images of a #rainbow on social media, be aware that you haven't seen yet such a rainbow thing with two extra suns. In 1645, in the last years of of the later called #ThirtyYearsWar, these rainbows and three suns were maybe seen near #Nuremberg, and interpreted as a godly sign for peace and a reminder to behave better. #histodons
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...did not develop to enshrine these concepts, as they were the result of historical struggles.
What is more, until the invention of the #NationState, arguable as conceived in the #TreatyOfWestphalia of 1648 (ending the #ThirtyYearsWar in #Europe), but not too prominent until the 19th century, it was common practice to redistribute fiefdoms through marriages and the like according to...
Selling the news was always a business that needed distribution strategies. Here, you see a mobile seller of early modern printed news. Let's focus on the details of this image, a woodcut print of 1631 covering a small pamphlet published in German speaking Europe during the middle of the #ThirtyYearsWar, in a thread for #bookhistory and #newshistory experts, and of course all #histodons in general.
Access the digital copy of the pamphlet @SLUBDresden here: https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/86300/1
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What you see are angels picking up and collecting the teardrops of the 20.000 killed in 1631 during the so called Sack of #Magdeburg. The event was a major massacre of the European conflicts known as #ThirtyYearsWar and became a media event: this is one published detail of its visual media echoes. #history #histodons #earlymodons
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