One long-running controversy that could have had bearing on the question of the relation between the Thirty Years’ War and capitalism was the debate over the notion of the “general crisis ...

It has clear echoes of the world of princes and the divine right of kings which the Thirty Years’ War destroyed and to which Foucault drew our attention. But the protests we have seen suggest ...

On one side was Gustavus Adolphus II, King of Sweden, and on the other was General Albrecht von Wallenstein, the leader of a regiment of Holy Roman Imperial forces. The Thirty Years' War was ...

Dame Veronica Wedgwood sketches the profile of Awesome Adolphus, King of Sweden, Lion of the North and the scourge of Emperor Ferdinand at the height of the War ... was thirty-six years old.

Almost all--one excepts the King of Sweden--were ... peace and they fought for thirty years to be sure of it,. They did not learn then, and have not since, that war breeds only war.