David Parrott

• University of Oxford

This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whereas previous accounts have emphasised the growth of state-run armies during this period, David Parrott argues instead that the delegation of military responsibility to sophisticated and extensive networ...

The career of Anselm Casimir Wambold von Umstadt, archbishop of Mainz from 1629 to 1647, has attracted little historical attention. Yet as highest-ranking of the prince-electors and as Imperial chancellor for a large part of the Thirty Years’ War, he played a distinct role in a key series of political and military events within the Holy Roman Empir...

This volume is the first in a new series generated by the Society for European Festivals Research. Some of the projected volumes will focus on particular themes or types of early modern festival, but the fourteen essays here are concerned with multifaceted aspects of a single set of courtly celebrations, those held in France, Spain, Italy, and else...

The Thirty Years War, one of the most destructive episodes in European history, devastated central Europe in general and Germany in particular. Waged between 1618 and 1648, it was a series of conflicts that merged together rather than a single war. David Parrott argues that the Thirty Years War reflected different, albeit interconnected, sets of ai...

In early 1645 Field Marshal Lennard Torstensson led a Swedish army of 9,000 cavalry, 6,000 infantry, and sixty cannon against a Habsburg-Imperial army of 10,000 cavalry, 5,000 infantry, and twenty-six cannon commanded by Melchior von Hatzfeld. Both armies were composed of regiments commanded by international colonelproprietors, who had used their f...

In 1633 the European conflict that had begun in 1619 was entering its fifteenth year. After the savagely fought battle of Lützen in November 1632, which had claimed the life of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden but had failed to undermine Swedish military power in the Empire, the following campaign proved a lacklustre affair. Neither the imperial army un...

War, religion and service. Huguenot soldiering, 1685–1713. Edited by GlozierMatthew and OnnekinkDavid. (Politics and Culture in North-Western Europe, 1650–1720.) Pp. xix+296+7 plates. Aldershot–Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. £60. 978 0 7546 5444 5 - Volume 60 Issue 4 - David Parrott

Book InformationIngénieurs et fortifications avant Vauban: L’organisation d’un service royal aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Ingénieurs et fortifications avant Vauban: L’organisation d’un service royal aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles David Buisseret Paris Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques 2001 142 Eur 33 By David Buisseret. Comité des travaux hi...

Book InformationActa Pacis, Westphalicae, Series II B. Vol. IV, Die französischen Korrespondenzen 1646. Edited by C. Kelch-Rade and A. Tischer. Aschendorff. Münster. 1999. Pp. lxxii + 975. DM 310.

Book InformationKurie und Politik: Stand und Perspektiven der Nuntiaturberichtsforschung. Edited by Alexander Koller. Max Niemeyer Verlag. Tübingen. 1998. Pp. 532. DM 152.

Book InformationCorrespondance consulaire des ambassadeurs de France à Constantinople, 1668–1708. Edited by Raïa Zaïmova. Centre Historique des Archives Nationales. Paris. 1999. Pp. 273. F 300.

Considerable attention has been given to the development of new and more sophisticated styles of fortification which spread across early modern Europe, and to the assumed impact of such developments on the character of war and international relations. However, by taking at face value the rhetoric of impregnability attached to massive fortification...

BLDSC reference no.: D69203/86. Thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 1985.