Lucian Staiano-Daniels

• PhD
• PostDoc Position at Stanford University

Although Kant disapproved of war, he asserted it was sublime. His views of war are disconnected and in places surprisingly positive, but he avoids grappling with their implications. This article analyses these heterogeneous discussions through Kant’s notion of the sublime to argue that some of his statements imply war’s sublimity can provoke an edu...

The occupation of Hesse-Kassel during the Thirty Years War has been discussed by historians like John Thiebault. This paper revisits this topic with an analysis of letters exchanged between ordinary Hessian civilians and common cavalrymen in the Liga army in July 1625. While this occupation was indeed a crisis, the relationships between these soldi...

State weakness has created a callous and brutalized soldiery.

Global anti-vaccine lies are finding local footholds.

Some historians have proposed that common soldiers in various parts of Europe lost a previous judicial independence around 1600 and have linked this development to a contemporary increase in discipline and in control over them. Meanwhile, historians of the Thirty Years War rarely mention military justice at all or depict this war as a time when mil...

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Attempts to explain Berlin’s militarism tells us something about how analysts approach Beijing.

The history of early-modern European manuscripts has rarely focused on the use of manuscripts in armies. Some historians have even presented early-modern armies as unconcerned with daily records of the common soldiers under their command. Others have used early-modern handwritten documents as sources of information, without examining them as artifa...

Historians still debate what to call the conflict that convulsed Central Europe from 1618 to 1648. Although it is largely accepted that this is “The Thirty Years War,” and indeed some people called it that shortly after it was over, some historians use this phrase to denote other wars, beginning earlier or ending later. This Thirty Years War was on...

I study the social history of early modern central Europe with a focus on the history of conflict. This profile is still under construction.

Sculptures made of turned ivory were popular from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. These pieces are strikingly beautiful and unusual: nested polyhedra, vases that writhed like early modern glitch art. Creating or admiring turned ivory works was symbolically significant for early modern princes: it symbolized mastery over themselv...

A. Wess Mitchell. The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. 416. - Volume 51 - Lucian Staiano-Daniels

Although armies grew larger during the seventeenth century, size estimates are often inaccurate. This article uses diverse sources to produce accurate troop counts for Electoral Saxony during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48), concluding that its army was large only briefly. It also discusses Saxony’s overlooked role in this war. This research sugges...

Lothar Höbelt. Von Nördlingen bis Jankau: Kaiserliche Strategie und Kriegführung 1634–1645. Vienna: Heeregeschichliches Museum, 2017. Pp. 547. - Volume 50 - Lucia Staiano-Daniels

Hegel’s view of India is famously negative, and postcolonial scholarship has been largely dominated by a view of Hegel as little more than a chauvinist. This paper argues that this interpretation is one-sided and overly simplistic. Most approaches to Hegel on India focus on the well-known lectures on the philosophy of history, imposing an overly te...