Geoff Mortimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5807239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoff Mortimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoff |
| FAMILY NAME | Mortimer |
| SIGNATURE | MORTIMER G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Early Modern Military History, 1450–1815
Key military developments occurred in the Early Modern period, during which armies evolved from troops of medieval knights to Napoleon's mass levies. Firearms impelled change, necessitating new battle
Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years' War 1618-1648
Why did they Write?
The question of motivation — why people wrote — is important in interpreting their resulting texts, but it is also extremely difficult to answer. Two levels or stages of motivation also require consideration, the first underlying the decision to keep some form of contemporaneous record and the second prompting the writing of a retrospective account. This divides the writers into three groups: those who only kept diaristic records, those who kept …
Civilian Perceptions
If for the soldier the war was in the last analysis his livelihood, the civilian was ultimately the paymaster. The princes who employed the armies had neither the resources in their own territories to pay and maintain them, nor the machinery of the modern state needed to marshal such means as they had. Instead all parties fell back upon the expedient of making the citizenry of occupied territories, whether nominally friend or enemy, pay the cost …
Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618–48
The Thirty Years War - the first great pan-European war, and until the twentieth century the most terrible - ravaged Germany, but myth, propaganda and historical controversy have obscured its true nat
Did Contemporaries Recognize a 'Thirty Years War
Journal Article Did Contemporaries Recognize a ‘Thirty Years War’? Get access G. Mortimer G. Mortimer St Edmund Hall, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 465, February 2001, Pages 124–136, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.465.124 Published: 01 February 2001
Did Contemporaries Recognize a 'Thirty Years War
Journal Article Did Contemporaries Recognize a ‘Thirty Years War’? Get access G. Mortimer G. Mortimer St Edmund Hall, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 465, February 2001, Pages 124–136, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.465.124 Published: 01 February 2001
Did Contemporaries Recognize a 'Thirty Years War
Journal Article Did Contemporaries Recognize a ‘Thirty Years War’? Get access G. Mortimer G. Mortimer St Edmund Hall, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 465, February 2001, Pages 124–136, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.465.124 Published: 01 February 2001
Why did they Write?
The question of motivation — why people wrote — is important in interpreting their resulting texts, but it is also extremely difficult to answer. Two levels or stages of motivation also require consideration, the first underlying the decision to keep some form of contemporaneous record and the second prompting the writing of a retrospective account. This divides the writers into three groups: those who only kept diaristic records, those who kept …
Civilian Perceptions
If for the soldier the war was in the last analysis his livelihood, the civilian was ultimately the paymaster. The princes who employed the armies had neither the resources in their own territories to pay and maintain them, nor the machinery of the modern state needed to marshal such means as they had. Instead all parties fell back upon the expedient of making the citizenry of occupied territories, whether nominally friend or enemy, pay the cost …
Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618–48
The Thirty Years War - the first great pan-European war, and until the twentieth century the most terrible - ravaged Germany, but myth, propaganda and historical controversy have obscured its true nat
Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years' War 1618-1648
Early Modern Military History, 1450–1815
Key military developments occurred in the Early Modern period, during which armies evolved from troops of medieval knights to Napoleon's mass levies. Firearms impelled change, necessitating new battle
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