18: The Thirty Years' War (Part One)

Core Reading: Berns, Gisela. “History of the Thirty Years’ War and The Iliad.” Greek Antiquity in Schiller’s “Wallenstein,” vol. 104, University of North Carolina Press, 1985, pp. 13–20. Smith, Bradford. “Resisting the Rosicrucians: Theories on the Occult Origins of the Thirty Years’ War.” Church History and Religious Culture, vol. 94, no. 4, Brill, 2014, pp. 413–43. Thaler, Peter. “Fall of the Peacemakers: Austria’s Protestant Nobility and the Advent of the Thirty Years’ War.” Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, vol. 39, no. 3, Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, 2016, pp. 133–58. Further Reading: Croxton, Derek. “A Territorial Imperative? The Military Revolution, Strategy and Peacemaking in the Thirty Years War.” War in History, vol. 5, no. 3, Sage Publications, Ltd., 1998, pp. 253–79. Wilson, Peter. Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War, 2009. https://www.amazon.com/Europes-Traged...