•RECOMMENDED READING•


All books and articles are in English unless noted otherwise. 


General Landsknecht and German Culture

The Landsknechts by Douglas Miller (1994)

Armies of the German Peasants’ War 1524-26 by Douglas Miller (2003)

The Swiss at War 1300-1500 by Douglas Miller and G.A. Embleton (1996)

I Lanzichenezzi/The Landsknechts: German militiamen from late XV and XVI by Luca Cristini and Nadir Durand (2016)

Landsknecht Soldier 1486-1560 by John Richards (2009)

Soldier’s Lives Through History: The Early Modern World by Dennis Showalter and William J. Astore (2007)

A History of Modern Germany, The Reformation by Hajo Holborn (1967)

The German Peasant War of 1525 edited by Janos Bak (1976/2013)

Historia Herrn Georgen vnnd Herrn Casparn von Frundsberg, Vatter vnd Sons by Adam Reißner (1568) (in MH German)


Clothing Research and Construction

Drei Schnittbucher: Three Austrian Master Tailor Books of the 16th Century by Katherine Barich and Marion McNealy

Textiler Hausrat: Kleidung und Haustextilien in Nürnberg von 1500-1600 by Jutta Zandel-Seidel (in German)

“Medieval Underwear: Bras, Pants, and Lingerie in the Middle Ages” by Beatrix Nutz

“Design for a Shoe” by Albrecht Dürer

Beziehungen zwischen Soldatentracht und ziviler modischer Kleidung zwischen 1500 und 1650 by Ruth Bleckwenn (1974) (in German)

L’uniforme militaire et le costume civil by Martin Ellenhauge (1952) (in French)

Kleiderordnungen der deutschen Städte zwischen 1350 und 1700 by Liselotte Constanze Eisenbart (1962) (in German)

Die Sprache der Kleidung: Wesen und Wandel von Tracht, Mode, Kostüm und Uniform by Ingeborg Petraschek-Heim (1988) (in German)

Arms and Armor

“Landsknecht Pikeman armor From the First Half of the 16th Century" by Jason Grimes (2013)

Pietro Monte's Collectanea: The Arms, Armour and Fighting Techniques of a Fifteenth-Century Soldier by Dr. Jeffrey Forgeng (2018)

European Weapons and Armour by Ewart Oakeshott (2012)


Women of the Tross

"Camp Followers, Sutlers, and Soldiers' Wives: Women in Early Modern Armies (c.1450-c.1650)" by Mary Elizabeth Ailes (2012)

“The World of Camp and Train: the The Changing Role of Women in Early Modern
Armies” by Barton Hacker and Margaret Vining (2002)

“Essential Women, Necessary Wives, and Exemplary Soldiers" by John A. Lynn II (2012)

Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe by John A. Lynn II (2008)

“German Women and War, 1500-1800” by Peter Wilson (1996)

Harlots, Sutlers, Soldiers Wives?
The role of women within the mercenary armies of the early Modern
Age by Daniel Feichtner (2010) (in German)


The Sack of Rome (1527)

History of the city of Rome in the Middle Ages, Volume 8, Part 2 by Ferdinand Gregorovius (1870/1902)

A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome: The German revolt, 1517-1527 by Mandell Creighton (1911)


Medieval and Renaissance Cooking

Das Buch von Guter Speise, c.1350. 

Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books: Harleian MS. 279 (ab 1430), & Harl. MS. 4016 (ab.1450), with Extracts from Ashmole MS. 1439, Laud MD 553, & Douce MS.55 edited by Thomas Austin (1964)

Keukenboek, uitgegeven naar een handschrift der vijftiende eeuw by C.A. Serrure (1872) 

“Ein new Kochbuch (Frankfurt a.M. 1581)” by Marx Rumpolt (1581)