This thoroughly revised new edition of Geoffrey Parker's classic text incorporates the latest research about this central episode of early modern history. `Judicious, lively, enlightening.' - Times Literary Supplement
Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities.
This book guides the reader through the period by surveying the narrative of events and establishing the essential chronological framework.
A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike.
An edited and annotated collection of translated documents on the Thirty Years War, providing students with accessible source material on this destructive conflict.
This concise book takes a different approach; it sets out to give an understanding of the events and personalities involved and is an ideal overview for both specialists and those new to the subject.
History of the Thirty Years' War
The engrossing accounts of their shifting fortunes over the three decades of the war really help to give this collection of texts, and the troublesome period itself, a human face.
The book presents a new print history that looks across Europe and the interconnecting political and religious groups with international networks.
The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions ...
This is hardly surprising since it is often contested among historians whether it is actually appropriate to speak of a single war or a series of conflicts.