Grimmelshausen, Adventures of a Simpleton, 117-75; Ronald G. Asch, "'Wo der soldat hinkömbt, da ist alles sein': Military Violence and Atrocities in the Thirty Years War Re-examined," German History 18 (2000): 291-309.
We will discuss the article by Asch first. Do not wait to 22 November to get the article, which is available to you through the SFU online catalogue. You can begin by doing a journal title search for German History.
Assignments for all students in Hist. 331:
1. Devise an outline for the article by Asch. Notice that he divides his article into three sections. Give each section an appropriate title and briefly summarize the main points of each section. Your outline should look something like this:
1. Your title goes here.
a) point
b) point
c) point
2. Your title goes here.
a) point
b) point
c) point
etc.
(You might have more than three points per section.)
2. At the end of the outline, append one or two questions that can elicit a broad discussion of the article either by getting us to think of the article as a whole or by linking it to a broader theme about the Thirty Years War or to other assigned readings.
3. Consider Grimmelshausen's novel as a source of information about a soldier's life (or life in general) during the Thirty Years War. List five typical aspects about life during the Thirty Years War based on the portion of the novel assigned for today. Based on your data and a consideration of the first two books of the novel, we will have a general class discussion about the reliability of the novel as an historical source.
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