Lucian Staiano-Daniels is a visiting assistant professor at Colgate University. His book on the historical social anthropology of early seventeenth century common soldiers is upcoming from Cambridge University Press.
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Lucian Staiano-Daniels
People visit a makeshift memorial for Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in central Moscow on Oct. 1.
A colorized print depicts Bohemian mercenary General Albrecht Wenzel von Wallenstein, wearing a hat with a feather, thigh-high boots, and lace cuffs and collar as he rides atop a bearded man wearing a tall furry hat as though he were a horse. Marauding soldiers are seen in the background landscape of houses and castles.
Carved ivory polyhedra by Egidius Lobenigk (left) and Georg Wecker from the 16th century, part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden collection in Germany.