Tutorial 4

1. Tutorial 4 29 September 2011 Sourcebook, documents 11-30, 37-40

2. Terms to know • Bohemian Confederation • Frederick V • Bethlen Gabor • Christian of Anhalt • Battle of White Mountain • agreements in Question 6 below

3. Questions: a religious war? • Historians debate whether the Thirty Years War was a religious war. Read all the documents with this debate in mind. Do you notice any passages in the documents that point to and / or away from a religious war? Be prepared to indicate these passages in class. • What is Ferdinand II’s plan for Habsburg Austria in document 29?

4. Questions: the war begins • What different perspectives about the beginning of the conflict between the Bohemian estates and Habsburg authority can we glean from documents 11-14, 18? • What view of the relationship between state and society do the articles of the Bohemian Confederation reveal? What do you think is the foundation of this relationship? • Why did Frederick V agree to become King of Bohemia? See document 15. Do you think he was “naturally indecisive” (Europe’s Tragedy, 284)? Note: In document 12, “apology” means “defence.”

5. Questions: agreements • Documents 21, 22, 24, and 40 reveal important agreements reached after the fighting began. In each case, who are the parties to the agreements and what do they promise to each other? What is the larger historical significance of each agreement?

6. Questions: the ways of war • What can we learn from documents 19, 25, 27, 28, 37 and 38 about mentalities about war, military tactics, and the effects of war?