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Sigrun Haude is the Walter C. Langsam Professor of European History at the University of Cincinnati. She has published widely on the history of early modern Germany with particular focus on the Thirty Years War. Her most recent work, Coping with Life during the Thirty Years' War (Leiden: Brill, 2021), explores how seventeenth-century contemporaries survived this long war with its many detrimental repercussions.

In her keynote lecture she returns to the Thirty Years War to explore the material culture that illuminates how this devastating conflict was experienced.

This keynote lecture from Prof. Sigrun Haude "The Thirty Years' War: Up Close and Material" will be folllowed up on 20 April with a full-day conference at Mansfield College, Oxford. 

Download the programme for The Material Culture of War and Emergency in the Early Modern World

Download the programme for The Material Culture of War and Emergency in the Early Modern World

• To register for the keynote, please visit
• To register for the conference, please email Róisín Watson (roisin.watson@history.ox.ac.uk)

The conference is organized by Dr Allison Stielau and Dr Róisín Watson and has been generously supported by:  
The John Fell Fund (Oxford); the Centre for Early Modern Studies (Oxford); the Society for Renaissance Studies; the German History Society; the Institute of Advanced Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ (Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾); the Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ History of Art Past Imperfect Seminar. 

Image credit: Fireworks display celebrating the end of the Thirty Years War, Nuremberg, 1650, print, anonymous, after Peter Troschel, CC0, via