La guerre de Trente Ans : l'enlisement du conflit [2/3], avec Claire Gantet

Make a donation and receive a gift: http://don.storiavoce.com/ From the day after the conflict that tore Germany apart and then Europe between 1618 and 1648, the war was called the "Thirty Years' War" by contemporaries. An extraordinary confrontation during which epidemics claimed more lives than the battlefields. Both a war of attrition and a revolutionary war due to its new military concepts, the conflict reached a peak of violence with the sack of Magdeburg by the Catholic League on May 20, 1631. The war was also treated in a very particular way in the newspapers of the time, blending factual accounts of the hostilities with propaganda. What were the major phases of the war? How did the intervention of Sweden and then France perpetuate the conflict? Can it be said to be the deadliest conflict in European history? Our guest: Claire Gantet is a professor of modern history at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and president of the Swiss Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Author of numerous works, she has co-edited, with Christine Lebeau, The Holy Roman Empire, 1500-1800 (Armand Colin, 272 pp., €23.99) and A History of Dreams – The Nocturnal Faces of the Soul (Germany, 1500-1800) (PUR, 326 pp., €25). Her book The Thirty Years' War 1618-1648 was co-published by Tallandier and the French Ministry of the Armed Forces (634 pp., €26.90). *** Facebook:   / histoireetcivilisationsmag   Instagram:   / histoireetcivilisations   Twitter:   / storiavoce