Lucian Staiano-Daniels is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and the author of The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers During the Era of the Thirty Years War, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
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Lucian Staiano-Daniels
A depiction of The Battle of Crecy during the Hundred Years War.
A colorized print depicts Bohemian mercenary General Albrecht Wenzel von Wallenstein, wearing a hat with a feather, thigh-high boots, and lace cuffs and collar as he rides atop a bearded man wearing a tall furry hat as though he were a horse. Marauding soldiers are seen in the background landscape of houses and castles.
Carved ivory polyhedra by Egidius Lobenigk (left) and Georg Wecker from the 16th century, part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden collection in Germany.
