Negotiated Settlement: The Counter-Reformation in the Habsburg Province of Upper Austria . Brill. Studies in Central European Histories

The changes associated with reformed Catholicism in the decades around 1600, and how they affected men and women, can only be understood by looking at the interactions between politics and social and religious requirements on a local level.
This study, first of all, sketches the Austrian rural territory that will be analyzed. Next, the local administrative disputes are outlined. The third chapter looks closely at one monastery estate, while chapter four details the administrators responsible for the implementation of policies. The concluding chapter concentrates on the experiences of women.
Religious, cultural, and women's historians, interested in rural social transformations in the early modern period, will find this an important book. The political landscape, which stretched from the Council of Trent to the bodies of pregnant girls, proved to be exceedingly complex. This local study of the Counter-Reformation makes use of a variety of previously unexamined, archival sources.

Amazons to Fighter Pilots
A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women
2 Volumes

Reina Pennington
Foreword by Gerhard Weinberg
Description:
In 1942, during the battle of Stalingrad, fighter pilot Liliia Litviak became the first woman to shoot down an enemy aircraft. In the 1850s, Lakshmi Bai, a horsewoman, good shot, and Rani of the Indian principality of Jhansi, rallied her subjects and defended the principality against a British siege. From antiquity to the present, thousands of women have served in the military as soldiers, sailors, physicians, and pilots, yet their stories have been hidden from history. This book tells their stories, with particular focus on women who fought.

Entries profile over 300 remarkable women of the military, covering such groups as the Amazons, women in the Spanish Civil War, and Native Americans. The full sweep of their experience is contextualized through an extensive timeline and introductory survey. Additional tidbits--quotations, statistics, information on women and war--appear in sidebars throughout the text. Lists grouping entries by geographical regions, time periods, and branch of service serve as finding aids for researchers, making this a unique resource for students, scholars, and the general reader.
Reviews:
" [T]his peerless work, situated at the nexus of military history and women's studies, is an essential companion to more male-biased biographical resources like Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography. Highly recommended. All collections." - Choice

" Starred Review Amazons to Fighter Pilots is a necessary addition to college and university libraries and a sound selection for high-school and public libraries." - Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

Women in World History
A Biographical Encyclopedia

Published by Gale
"This monumental, decade-in-the-making resource will be a cornerstone for collections supporting historical research of any sort. An exemplary work."
-- School Library Journal (May 2000)
With more than 10,000 biographical entries, this is the most comprehensive women's history encyclopedia available. This ambitious work profiles women throughout time and throughout the world. More than 2,500 signed articles written by academics, up to 5,000 words in length, highlight a particular woman's personal background and significance in history. Shorter entries spotlight historically important women who are less frequently researched or for whom less information is available.
This encyclopedia features women from all walks of life, including: rulers, royalty, lawyers, politicians, soldiers, heroines, pacifists, resistance fighters, financiers, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, investors, authors and more. Coverage includes many women for whom profiles are not included in traditional sources.
Features include: a short introductory quotation that exemplifies the woman being profiled; a short summary of each woman's life and achievements; more than 3,000 photos and illustrations; genealogical charts establishing standard names used throughout; sidebar entries for women whose lives touched that of the biographee; occupational, geographical, historical era and master indexes; essay-specific lists of sources consulted and further reading lists; lists of related media (recordings, television, etc.) about each woman; information on collections of any works by the subjects; extensive cross-references, and much more.
More than 600 books were analyzed to identify the women most likely to be researched in a historical context. Look for these and other notables:

Women in World History's valuable 17th volume includes an occupational index, a geographical index, an historical era index and a master personal name index, which includes all the woman covered, their variant names and also the names of significant individuals mentioned in the text of entries. Because variant names can be a confusing component of research, the first volume and the index include genealogical charts that note relationships and establish a standard name to be consistently used throughout the set.
Published/Released: October 1999

Professor Joseph Patrouch
History Department

Prof. Patrouch's research has concentrated on the various histories of religious conflicts in central Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His earlier work mostly dealt with with one part of the hereditary lands of the Habsburg Dynasty, a part of the present-day Republic of Austria's province of Upper Austria (Oberoesterreich). His book, A Negotiated Settlement: The Counter-Reformation in Upper Austria under the Hapsburgs is due to be published in the Brill Publishers series "Studies in Central European Histories." His 1995 University of Vienna lecture on an aspect of this project was published by the journal of the Austrian Institute for Early Modern Research in their journal Fruehe Neuzeit Info 7 (1996).

After a semester stay (Spring, 1995) in Berlin as an invited guest researcher at the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft's Working Group on East Elbian Seigneurial Relations, Prof. Patrouch has concentrated on research on the social networks created by women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has written shorter pieces on the undertaking of women such as the Habsburg archduchess Mary of Hungary and women in early modern warfare generally for the forthcoming Military Women Worldwide (Greenwood Press) as well as pieces on the Holy Roman Empire and the Counter-Reformation in the new Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (Fitzroy Dearborn Pubishers). Continuing a longer interest in the relations between literature, historical narratives, and folklore, Prof. Patrouch has also written about topics such as the depictions of characters such as "Charlemagne" and "Faust."

Prof. Patrouch's current research concentrates on the life, contexts, and undertakings of the Habsburg archduchess Isabell (1554-1592). An article on this archduchess is scheduled to be published in Yorkin Publications' project Women in World History . His lecture on Isabell and her position between the early modern central European and Iberian worlds is to be published in Conrad Kent and Thomas Wolber, editors, The Lion and the Eagle (Berghahn Books). Prof. Patrouch presented a paper concerning Archduchess Isabell at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, Great Britain (Summer, 1998) as well as another, titled 'Reichstag und Hochzeit: Speyer, 1570' at the international conference on early modern court societies held at Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic in October, 1998. (This lecture is scheduled to be published in the collected papers of the conference.)

During 1998, Prof. Patrouch was on sabbatical from FIU pursuing research in the German Federal Archives and the City Archive of Frankfurt/Main. During the Spring Semester, 1999, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Vienna at the invitation of the Institut fuer die Erforschung der fruehen Neuzeit. While in Vienna, he continued his research on the life, contexts and undertaking of the archduchess Isabell through the examination of sources available in various Viennese, Moravian, Tyrolean, and Lower Austrian archives. His lecture at the Vienna institute in Spring, 1999 titled 'Ysabell/Elizabeth/Alzbeta:  Erzherzogin. Koenigin. Forschungsgegenwurff' will be published by the institute's journal

Book
Negotiated Settlement: The Counter-Reformation in the Habsburg Province of Upper Austria . Brill. Studies in Central European Histories (Leiden, 2000).

Other Publications
"Macht als Handlung: Sierning, Das Land ob der Enns, 27. Mai, 1629." Fruhneuzeit-Inf o 7 (1996) 18-24 .
"Who Pays for Building the Rectory? Religious Conflicts in the Upper Austrian Parish of Dietach, 1540-1582," Sixteenth Century Journal , 26 (1995).
"The Investiture Controversy Revisited: Religious Reform, Emperor Maximilian II, and the Klosterrat," Austrian History Yearbook , 25 (1994).
"Sexualität und Herrschaft: Sexuelles Fehlverhalten in Strafprozessen vor drei grundherrlichen Gerichten Oberösterreichs," Daniela Erlach, Markus Reisenleitner, Karl Vocelka, editors, Privatisierung der Triebe? Sexualität in der Frühen Neuzeit
(1993).
"Augustin Kulicka a protireformace v Horním Rakousku na prelomu 16. a 17. stoleti," with Václav Buzek, Jihocesky sborník historicky (Ceské Budejovice) 60-61 (1991-92).
"The Counter-Reformation and 'Volksfrömmigkeit' in the Traunviertel," Historicum (Salzburg) 18 (Winter, 1989-90).

Book Reviews in H-Net Book Review Project (H-German, HABSBURG), Hispanic American Historical Review , Journal of American Folklore , Austrian History Yearbook , Sixteenth Century Journal , German Studies Review .

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