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Many more sources (and additional annotation) will be added in the future.
Albrecht, Dieter. Die auswartige Politik Maximilians von Bayern 1618-1635. Schriftenreihe der Historischen
Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, vol. 6. Gottingen, 1962.
________. “Zur Finanzierung des Dreissigiahrigen Krieges.” Zeitschrift fur bayerische Landesgeschichte 19
(Munich, 1956), 534-67. Reprinted in Rudolf, ed., Der Dreissigjahrige Krieg, 368-412.
Anderson, Alison. On the Verge of War: International Relations and the Julich-Kleve Succession Crises (1609-
1614). Boston, 1999.
Anderson, M.S. The Rise of Modern Diplomacy, 1450-1919. New York, 1993.
________. War and Society in Europe of the Old Regime, 1618-1789. Leicester, 1988.
Asch, Ronald G. The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618- 1648. New York: St.
Martin's, 1997. Note: This work focuses on four important periods of the Thirty Years War including the
beginning of the war in 1618, the Edict of Restitution in 1629, the Peace of Prague in 1635, and the Peace
of Westphalia in 1648. Asch argues that it was the intervention of France’s Cardinal Richelieu that was the
ultimate cause of the Peace of Prague’s failure to achieve a general peace.
Barker, Thomas M. The Military Intellectual and Battle: Raimondo Montecuccoli and the Thirty Years War.
Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1975.
Barudio, Günter. Der Teutsche Krieg, 1618-1648. Frankfurt, 1985.
Beller, Elmer. “A. Contemporary English Printed Sources for the Thirty Years' War.” The American Historical
Review, Vol. 32: 2 (Jan., 1927), 276-282.
________. “Recent Studies on the Thirty Years' War.” The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 3:1 (Mar., 1931),
72-83.
________. “The Thirty Years War.” In The Decline of Spain and the Thirty Years War 1609-48/59. Ed. J.P.
Cooper, 306-358. Vol. 4 of The New Cambridge Modern History. Cambridge, 1970.
Benecke, Gerhard. Germany in the Thirty Years War. London: 1978. Note: Benecke provides many English
translations of many documents, but not a general history of the war.
_________. “The Problem of Death and Destruction in the Thirty Years War: New Evidence from the Middle
Weser Front,” European Studies Review 2 (1972) 241- 259.
Bergin, Joseph. Cardinal Richelieu: Power and the Pursuit of Wealth. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
Bierther, K. “Zur Edition von Quellen zum Prager Frieden vom 30. Mai 1635.” In K. Repgen, ed. Forschungen und
Quellen zur Geschichte des Dreissigjahrigen Krieges. Munster, 1981: Vereinigung zur Erforschung der
neuersen Geschichte, XII, 1-31 Note: This text examines the Peace of Prague at length.
Bireley, Robert. Maximilian von bayern, Adam Contzen, S.J. und die Gegenreformation in Deutschland 1624-
1635. Gottingen, 1975. Note: Bireley carefully examines sources on Maximilian I of Barvaria to argue that
the Thirty Years War, at least until the Peace of Prague in 1635, was not just a political struggle, but that it
was primarily a religious struggle in which the Catholic elector genuinely sought the furtherance of the
Catholic faith. I have included this work in both the Peace of Prague and Thirty Years War sections of this
bibliography.
________. Religion and Politics in the Age of the Counterreformation: Emperor Ferdinand II, William
Lamormaini, S.J., and the Formation of Imperial Policy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1981. Note: This books ultimate conclusion is that Imperial policy was largely driven by religious motives
and that his Jesuit confessor William Lamormaini was responsible. The book does an exceptionally good job
of documenting Lamormaini’s broad influence on Ferdinand II, including during the period of deliberations
for the Peace of Prague. I have included this source in both the Peace of Prague and the Thirty Years War
section of this bibliography as provides coverage of the negotiations leading up to the Peace of Prague,
which is covered extensively in chapter 11.
________. The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2003.
________. “The Origins of the ‘Pacis Compositio’ 1629: A Test of Paul Laymann, S.J.” Archivum Historicum
Societatis Jesu 42 (Rome, 1973), 106-27.
________. “The Peace of Prague (1635) and the Counter Reformation in Germany.” The Journal of Modern
History, Vol. 48:1, (Mar., 1976), 31-70. Note: This article is perhaps the most thorough and focused
English language study of the complicated negotiations and deliberations that took place leading up to the
Peace of Prague. The excellent detailed footnotes are very helpful for further study of both primary and
secondary literature on the subject.
Black, Jeremy. Ed. European Warfare, 1453-1815. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Bloth, Hugo Gottard. “Der Kapuziner Valerian Magni und sein Kampf gegen den Jesuitenorden,” Materialdienst
des KonfessionskundlichenInstituts.Evangelischer Bund, Konfessionskundliches Institute, Bensheim, 7
(1956), 81-86.
Bohme, K.R. “Geld fur die schwedische Armee nach 1640.” Scandia, XXXIII (1967), 54- 95.
Bonney, Richard. The Thirty Years' War 1618-1648. Oxford: Osprey, 2002.
Brecht, Bertolt. Mother Courage and her Children: A Chronicle of the Thirty Years' War. New York: Grove Press,
1966.
Burkhardt. Johannes. Der Dreissigjährige Krieg. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1992.
Carsten, F. L. Princes and Parliaments in Germany from the 15th to the 18th Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1959.
Charveriat, Emile. Histoire de la Guerre de Trente Ans.. 2 Vols. Paris, 1878.
Citino, Robert Michael. The German way of war : from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich. Lawrence, Kan.:
University Press of Kansas, 2005.
Classen, C.P. The Palatinate in European History 1559-1660. London: 1963. Note: Cited as the best study of
Palatine policy in English.
Corvisier, Andre. “’Modernite’ de la guerre de Trente Ans.” In Destins et enjeux du XVIIe siècle. Edited by Yves-
Marie Berce et al., 95-107. Paris, 1985.
Coupe, W.A. “Political and Religious Cartoons of the Thirty Years' War.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld
Institutes, 25: 1/2 (Jan., 1962), 65-86.
Cronholm, Abraham, Seriges historia under Gustav Adolfs regering, 6 vols., Stockholm, 1857-72.
Croxton, Derek. Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe: Cardinal Mazarin and the Congress of Westphalia.
Cranbury, N.J.: Susquehanna University Press, 1999.
Cygan, Jerzy. Valerianus Magni (1586-1661): ‘Vita prima’ operum recensio et bibliographia. Rome: Institutum
Historicum Capuccinum, 1989. Note: This is perhaps the best modern work available on the life and career
of Valerian Magni, an influential voice during the Peace of Prague and the Thirty Years War. It is written in
Latin.
Darby, Graham. The Thirty Years' War. London: Hodder & Stoughton Educational, 2001.
Dautermann, Willy. Alzey im dreissigjährigen Krieg: eine Studie über die Wirkung des dreissigjährigen Krieges in
einer pfälzischen Stadt. Berlin: Verlag dr. Emil Ebering, 1937.
Dickmann, Fritz. Der Westfalische Frieden. 4th ed. Munster, 1977. Note: While the early sections of this work
provide information on the Peace of Prague, it also focuses on Imperial policy after 1635.
Dieter, Albrecht. Die auswartige Politik Maxillians von Bayern 1618-1635. Gottingen, 1962. Note: Disagreement
with the Emperor over the disposition of the recovered Church lands also helped cool Urban’s enthusiasm
for the Edict of Restitution.
Downing, Brian M. “Constitutionalism, Warfare, and Political Change in Early Modern Europe.” Theory and
Society, Vol. 17:1 (Jan., 1988), 7-56.
Droysen, Johann Gustav. Gustav Adolf. 2 Vols. Leipzig, 1869–1870.
_______. Herzog Bernhard von Weimar. 2 Vols. Leipzig, 1885.
Ekman, Ernst. “Three Decades of Research on Gustavus Adolphus.” The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 38: 3
(Sep., 1966), 243-255.
Elliott, John. “Krieg und Frieden in Europa. 1618-1648.” In 1648: Krieg und Frieden in Europa. Textband I:
Politik, Religion, Recht, und Gesellschaft, edited by Klaus Bussmann and Heinz Schilling, 23-40. Munich:
Bruckmann, 1998.
Engelbert, Karl. “Das Bistum Breslau im Dreissigjahrigen Kreig.” Archiv fur schlesische Kirchengeschichte 25
(Hildesheim, 1967), 201-51.
Ergang, R. The Myth of the All Destructive Fury of the Thirty Years War. Pocono Pines, Pa.: The Craftsman,
1956.
Evans. R.J.W. The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy 1550-1700: An Interpretation. Oxford: 1979. Note: This
work comes with a comprehensive bibliography in various languages.
Faden, Eberhard. Berlin im dreissigjährigen Kriege / von Eberhard Faden. Mit 16 Abbildungen auf 19 Tafeln und
einem Stadtplan. Berlin: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft für Politik und Geschichte m. b. h, 1927.
Fichtner, Paula S. The Habsburg Monarchy, 1490-1848 : attributes of empire. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2003.
Franz, Günther. Der Dreissigjährige Krieg und das deutsche Volk: Unters. zur Bevölkerungs- u. Agrargeschichte.
Stuttgart; New York: Fischer, 1979.
Friedeburg, R. V. “In defense of patria: resisting magistrates and the duties of patriots in the Empire from the
1530's to the 1640's.” The Sixteenth Century Journal, 32:2 .(Summer 2001), 357-82. Note: Includes
discussion of Thirty Years War with a brief reference to the Peace of Prague as it notes, “The Peace of
Prague seemed to substantiate all the fears about a popish tyranny that Lutheran patriots had harbored for
some time.”
Frohnweiler, K.H. “Die Friedenspolitik Landgraf Georgs II. von Hessen-Darmstadt in den Jahren 1630-1635.”
Archiv fur hessische Geschichte und Altertumskunde, N.F. XXIX (1964), 1-185. Note: Provides information
of Hesse-Darmstadt’s role in bringing about the Peace of Prague between the Emperor and most of his
Lutheran vassals. Geoffroy Parker praises Frohnweiler’s “penetrating analysis” of these events.
Gardiner, Samuel. The Thirty Years War, 1618 – 1648. London, 1874. Note: This work has been printed in several
editions since 1874.
Gindely, Anton. Geschichte des dreiszig-jährigen Krieges, 4 Vols. Prague, 1869-80. Note: According to the
Catholic Encyclopedia, this work only covers the period up to 1623.
Gunther, Heinrich. Das Restitutionsedikt v. 1629 u. die kathol. Restauration Altwirtembergs. Stuttgart,1901.
Guthrie, William P. The Later Thirty Years War: From the Battle of Wittstock to the Treaty of Westphalia.
Contributions in Military Studies Series. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003.
Gutmann, Myron. “The Origins of the Thirty Years War.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18:4, (Spring,
1988), 749-770. Note: As the title suggests, this article examines the political and religious tensions leading
up to the outbreak of the Thirty Years War.
Hagen, William W. “Seventeenth-Century Crisis in Brandenburg: The Thirty Years' War, The Destabilization of
Serfdom, and the Rise of Absolutism.” The American Historical Review, Vol. 94: 2 (Apr., 1989), 302-335.
Haan, Heiner. Der Regensburger Kurfurstentag von 1636/1637. Munster, 1967.
________. Funf Bucher Geschichte Wallensteins. 3 Vols. Leipzig, 1910.
________.“Kaiser Ferdinand II. und das Problem des Reichsabsolutismus. Die Prager Heeresreform von 1635.” In
H.U. Rudolf, ed., Der Dreissigjahrige Krieg. Perspektiven und Strukturen. Darmstadt, 1977. Note: See
especially pages 208- 264 for a detailed examination of the military consequences of the Peace of Prague.
________. “Prosperität und Dreißigjähriger Krieg,” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 7 (1981), 91-118.
________. Wallensteins Ende. Ungedruckte Briefe und Acten. 2 Vols. Leipzig, 1879.
Heinisch, Reinhard Rudolf. Salzburg im Dreissigjährigen Krieg. Wien: Verlag Notring, 1968.
Höfer, Ernst. Das Ende des Dreissigjährigen Krieges: Strategie und Kriegsbild. Köln: Böhlau, 1997.
Hurter, Friedrich. Geschichte Kaiser Ferdinand’s II, 11 vols. Shaffhausen, 1850-1864.
Ingrao, Charles W. The Habsburg monarchy, 1618-1815. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Israel, J.I. “Central European Jewry during the Thirty Years War.” Central European History, XVI (1983), 3-30.
Jakob, Karl. Von Lützen nach Nördlingen. Strasburg, 1904.
Kaiser, Michael. Politik und Kriegführung: Maximilian von Bayern, Tilly und die Katholische Liga im
Dreissigjährigen Krieg. Münster: Aschendorff, 1999.
Kamen, Henry. “The Economic and Social Consequences of the Thirty Years' War.” Past and Present, No. 39
(Apr., 1968), 44-61.
Khevenhiller, Frantz Christoph. Annales Ferdinandei. Ratisbon, 1640-46. 2nd ed., 1716- 26, Leipzig, 1724.
Klopp, Onno. Der dreissigjahrige Krieg bis zum Tode Gustav Adolphs 1632. Vols 2 and 3, parts 1 and 2.
Paderborn, 1893-96.
Koch, R.[?] Gesch. des deutschen Reichs unter die Regierung Ferdinands III. 2 vols., 1865-66.
Krasner, Stephen D. “Westphalia and All That.” In Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions. and Political
Change, edited by Judith Goldstein and Robert O. Keohane, 235-64. Ithaca. N.Y.: Cornell University Press,
1993.
Kraus, Andreas. Die papstliche Staatssekraterie unter Urban VIII. Freiburg, 1965.
Kretschmayr, K. “Magni, Valeriano.” Enciclopedia Italiana 21 (Rome, 1934), 936.
Langer, Herbert. The Thirty Year's War. Poole, England: Blandford Press, 1980. Note: Historian Geoffrey Parker
lists it as among the best of the “several thousand books” that have been written on the Thirty Years War.
(See Geoffrey Parker. The Thirty Years War. (London: Routledge, 1997) 281.)
Lee, Stephen J. The Thirty Years War. London: Routledge, 1991.
Leman, Auguste. Urbain VIII et la rivalite de la France et de la Maison d’Autriche de 1631 a 1635. Lille/Paris,
1920. Note: Perhaps the most valuable aspect of this work is its examination of Pope Urban VIII’s response
to the defeat at Breitenfeld, after which Urban intensified his efforts in forming a common Catholic front
again the Protestants. See especially pages 213-216.
Limm Peter. The Thirty Years War. London, 1984.
Livet, G. La Guerre de Trente ans. Paris, 1963.Note: This is another work I have not been able to review, but it
comes highly recommended by historian Geoffrey Parker. (See Geoffrey Parker. The Thirty Years War.
(London: Routledge, 1997) 281.)
Lockhart, Paul Douglas. Denmark in the Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648: King Christian IV and the Decline of the
Oldenburg State. Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehann University Press, 1996.
Loose, Hans-Dieter. Hamburg und Christian IV. von Dänemark während des dreissigjährigen krieges; ein Beitrag
zur Geschichte der hamburgischen Reichsunmittelbarkeit. Hamburg: H. Christians, 1963.
Louthan, Howard. “Mediating Confessions in Central Europe: The Ecumenical Activity of Valerian Magni,
1586–1661.” The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 55:4 (2004), 681-699. Note: This is the only work
in English to provide any extended analysis of the life and ecumenical efforts of Valerian Magni.
Machardy, Karin. War, Religion, and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria. Houndsmills, 2003.
Maland, David. Europe at War, 1600-1650. London: Macmillan, 1980. Note: Geoffrey Parker references this book
as one of the “best available” on the Thirty Years War, but also cautions the reader that it relies exclusively
on secondary works (See G. Parker, The Thirty Years War, 281).
Mann, Golo. Wallenstein: His Life Narrated. Translated by Charles Kessler. New York: Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, 1976.
Meier, D. “An Appeal for a Historiographical Renaissance: Lost Lives and the Thirty Years War.” The Historian,
67:2 (Summer 2005), 254-74. Note: This article provides quite a bit of discussion of peacemaking efforts
during the Thirty Years War (although relatively little on the Peace of Prague).
Mortimer, Geoff. “Did Contemporaries Recognise a ‘Thirty Years War’?” English Historical Review, 116
(2001a), 124-136.
________.Ed. Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618—48. New York: Palgrave, 2002. Note: This
short work provides a selection of primary sources from the Thirty Years War translated into English, but
none of them deal with the Peace of Prague.
________. “Individual Experience and Perception of the Thirty Years War in Eyewitness Personal Accounts.”
German History, 20, (2002).
________. “Models of Writing in Eyewitness Personal Accounts of the Thirty Years War.” Daphnis, 29 (2000),
609-47.
________. “Perceptions of the Thirty Years War in Eyewitness Personal Accounts” Unpublished Doctoral
Thesis, Oxford University, 1999.
________. “Style and Fictionalisation in Eyewitness Personal Accounts of the Thirty Years War.” German Life
and Letters, 54 (2001b), 97-113.
Mueller, Guenther H. S. “The "Thirty Years' War" or Fifty Years of War.” The Journal of Modern History, Vol.
50:1, (Mar., 1978), D1053-D1056.
Murdoch, Steve ed. Scotland and the Thirty Years' War: 1618-1648. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2001.
Myers, Denys P. “Violation of Treaties: Bad Faith, Nonexecution and Disregard.” The American Journal of
International Law. 11: 4 (Oct., 1917), 794-819. Note: A section of this article provides a short examination
of the Thirty Years War and references the failure of the Peace of Prague to achieve peace and the
consequences.
Nolden, K. Die Reichspolitik Kaiser Ferdinands II in der Publizistik bis zum Lubecker Frieden 1629. Cologne,
1958. Note: This work has been praised for its insights on the Emperor’s manipulation of public opinion,
especially in Lutheran Germany.
Nischan, Bodo. “Reformed Irenicism and the Leipzig Colloquy of 1631.” Central European History 9 (Atlanta,
1976), 3-26.
O’Connell, D.P. “A Cause Celebre in the History of Treaty Making. The Refusal to Ratify the Peace Treaty of
Regensburg in 1630.” The British Yearbook of International Law 42 (London, 1967), 71-90.
Osborne, Toby. Dynasty and diplomacy in the court of Savoy : Political Culture and the Thirty Years' War. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Osiander, Andreas. “A. Sovereignty, international relations, and the Westphalian myth.” International
Organization. 55 2 (Spring 2001), 251-87. Note: Contains extensive coverage of the Thirty Years War and
several references to the Peace of Prague. (e.g. “It is often claimed that the 1635 Peace of Prague,
proposed by the emperor, outlawed foreign alliances, but this is not true.”) .
Pagès, Georges. The Thirty Years War: 1618-1648. New York: Harper, 1971.
Parker, Geoffrey. Europe in crisis, 1598-1648. Oxford; Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 2001.
________. The Thirty Years War. London: Routledge, 1997. Note: Although this work focused on the broader
subject of the Thirty Years War, it gives excellent coverage to the events leading up to the Peace of Prague
[perhaps second only to Robert Bireley’s account]. This work also has a valuable chronological table, an
extensive annotated bibliography (in the form ofa lengthy bibliographic essay starting on page 281), as well
as brief, but useful, biographical data. The book also has a handy chart showing who was on the side of the
Emperor at any given time which is helpful for sorting out the sometimes confusing alliances of the war.
Pohl, Jürgen. 'Die Profiantirung der Keyserlichen Armaden Ahnbelangendt'. Studien zur versorgung der
Kaiserlichen Armee, 1634/35. Horn/Vienna: Ferdinand Berger, 1994. Note: This work focuses on the
logistics of the Imperial Army from the murder of Wallenstein in 1634 to the Peace of Prague in 1635.
Polišenský, J.V. "The Thirty Years' War", Past and Present, No. 6. (Nov., 1954), pp. 31– 43.
________. “The Thirty Years' War and the Crises and Revolutions of Seventeenth- Century Europe.” Past and
Present, No. 39 (Apr., 1968), 34-43.
Porchnev, B.F. Muscovy and Sweden in the Thirty Years' War: 1630-35. Trans. Brian Pearce. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Pursell, Brennan C. The Winter King: Frederick V of the Palatinate and the Coming of the Thirty Years' War.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.
Rabb, Theodore. Ed. The Thirty Years War. Problems of Motive, Extent and Effect. 2nd ed. Lexington:1964.
Note: This is not a history of the war, but a historiography of what twenty-one historians have said about
the war [in less than 100 pages] over the last two centuries (including excerpts from the historians).
Radler, Leonhard. "Das Schweidnitzer Land im Dreissigjährigen Krieg (1618-1648)." in politischer,
wirtschaftlicher, militärischer und kirchlicher Hinsicht. Lubeck: Verlag "Unser Weg", 1986.
Redlich, F. “Contributions in the Thirty Years' War.” The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 12: 2
(1959), 247-254.
Repgen, Konrad. Die Romische Kurle und der Westralische Friede, Vol. 1 Tubingen, 1962. Note: See pages 329-
388 for extensive coverage of the negotiations leading up to the Peace of Prague. I have not been able to
access this work but it is widely cited in other important works on the subject [including those of Bireley
and Parker]. This work is cross listed in both the Peace of Prague and the Thirty Years War sections of this
bibliography.
________.“Noch einmal zum Begriff ‘DreiBigjahriger kreig.’” Zeitschrift fur historische Forschung, 9 (1982),
347-352.
________. “Seit wann gibt es den Begriff ‘Dreibigjahriger Krieg.’?” In Weltpolitik, Europagedanke,
Regionalismus: Festschrift fur Heinz Gollwitzer, ed. H. Dollinger and others. (Munster: Aschendorf, 1982),
59-70.
________. “Über die Geschichtsschreibung des Dreißigjährigen Krieges: Begriff und Konzeption,”in Konrad
Repgen, Dreißigjährigen Krieg und Westfälischer Frieden (Paderborn, 1998) 21-111.
Ringmar, Erik. Identity, Interest & Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years'
War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Ritter, Moriz. Ed. Briefe und Akten zur Geschichte des Dreissigjahrigen Krieges. Vols I- IX. Munich: 1870-1909.
Note: These volumes contain many of the documents from the period 1599-1613, together with subsidiary
documentation from other sources. Volume 3, pages 588-594 contain information on the Pirna Points, and
while I have not been able to examine this volume, it may contain a copy of the Pirna Points.
________. Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Gegenreformation und des Dreissigjahrigen Krieges. Stuttgart,
1908. Note: Although dated, the work is still important, as according to Geoffrey Parker, “none” of the
“more modern surveys match the superb vintage study of Moriz Ritter.” (See Geoffrey Parker. The Thirty
Years War. (London: Routledge, 1997), 281.
________. “Der Ursprung des Restitutionsedikts.” Historische Zeitschrift 76 (Munich, 1896), 62-102. Reprinted in
Rudolf, ed. Der Dreissigjahrige Kreig, 135-74.
Roberts, Michael. Gustavus Adolphus: A History of Sweden, 1611-32. New York: Longman, 1992.
Ródenas Vilar, Rafael. La política europea de España durante la Guerra de Treinta Años (1624-1630). Madrid:
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Escuela de Historia Moderna, 1967.
Roeck, B. Als wolit die Welt schier brechen: Eine stadt im Zeitalter des DreiBigjahrigen Krieges. Munich: Beck,
1991.
Rudolf, Hans Ulrich. Ed. Der Dreissigjährige Krieg. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1977.
Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von, 1759-1805. The Thirty Years War — Complete. [Online] Project
Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6775 [Viewed December 23, 2006] Note: This curious 18th
century work is available online through Project Gutenberg [See accompanying web address]. While the
scholarship is obviously dated, it is included here because it may be useful for a historiographical review.
Schmidt, Georg. Der Dreissigjährige Krieg. 3d ed. Munich: Beck, 1998. Note: Cited extensively in many
secondary sources.
Schmitz, Otto. Die maritime Politik der Hapsburger 1625-28. (1903).
Schormann, Gerhard. Der Dreissigjährige Krieg. 2d ed. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993.
Sheldon, Henry C. History of the Christian Church: Vol. III, The Modern Church, Part One, First Period (1517-
1648). New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, 1895. Note: Although dated, this work provides a
systematic overview of the Thirty Years War from its origins until the Peace of Westphalia.
Soden, Franz von. Gustav Adolf und sein Heer in Süddeutschland 1631-33. 3 vols., 1865- 69.
Spahn, Martin. “The Thirty Years War.” The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIV. New York: Robert Appleton
Company, 1912. Note: Although dated and biased toward a Catholic perspective, this length entry written in
1912 may be useful for historiographical purposes. Also, the bibliography of secondary sources begins with
works dated to the seventeenth century. A transcription of the text is also available online at,
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14648b.htm. \
Stadler, Barbara. Pappenheim und die Zeit des Dreissigjährigen Krieges. Winterthur: Gemsberg-Verlag, 1991.
Steinberg, S.H. The 'Thirty Years War' and the Conflict for European Hegemony 1600- 1660. New York: W.W.
Norton, 1966.
________ “The Thirty Years War: A New Interpretation.” History, Vol.32, (1947), 89- 102.
Steinberger, Ludwig. Die Jesuiten und die Friedensfrage in der Zeit vom Prager Frieden bis zum Nurnberger
Friedensexekutionshauptrezess, 1635-1650. Freiburg, 1906.
Stieve, F. Allegmeine deutsche Biographie, Band vi. Leipzig, 1877.
Struck, Walter. Johann Georg u. Oxenstierna. Stralsund, 1899.
Sturdy, D. J. (David J.). Fractured Europe, 1600-1721. Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 2002.
Sturmberger, Hans. Kaiser Ferdinand II und das Problem des Absolutismus. Munich, 1957.
________. Aufstand in Bohmen: Der Beginn des Dreissigjahrigen Krieges. Munich and Vienna, 1959.
Sutherland, N.M. “The Origins of the Thirty Years War and the Structure of European Politics.” The English
Historical Review, Vol. 107: 424 (Jul., 1992), 587-625.
Suvantos, Pekka. "Die Deutsche Politik Oxenstiernas und Wallenstein." Studia Historica 9. Veroffentlicht von der
Finnischen Historischen Gesellschaft, Helsinki: 1979. Note: This work examines events and personalities in
the crucial years leading up to the Peace of Prague. Specifically, the author examines how by 1633 both
Oxenstierna (for whom the later Peace of Prague was intolerable) and Wallenstein were ready for peace, but
their competing goals and lack of trust for each other complicated their efforts. This should be a good
source for background information of peace efforts leading up to the Peace of Prague.
Symcox, Geoffrey, ed. War, Diplomacy, and Imperialism, 1618-1763. New York: Walker, 1974.
Tapié, Victor Lucien. La politique étrangère de la France et le début de la guerre de trente ans (1616-1621).
Paris: E. Leroux, 1934.
Teschke, Benno. The Myth of 1648. London, 2003.
Theibault, John. “The Rhetoric of Death and Destruction in the Thirty Years War.” Journal of Social History,
27(1993), 271-290.
________. “The Thirty Years War between Religious War, Constitutional Conflict, Great Power Struggle, and
Social Revolution.” [Online] Text of a Paper Presented for the conference Religion and Authority in Central
Europe: From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota.
http://www.cas.umn.edu/Conference%20papers%202006/Theibault-paper.pdf. [Last Viewed 11/28/2006].
Note: This article is valuable for its examination of secondary sources and how they framed the Thirty Years
War. It is basically a bibliographic/historiographic essay. One note of interest by the author is that “from :the
end of the second World War to the mid-1980s the Thirty Years War was a research backwater. Since then,
the volume of publication has grown considerably, especially surrounding the 350th anniversary of the
Treaties ofWestphalia in 1998.”
Trench, Richard Chenevix. Gustavus Adolphus in Germany and other Lectures on the Thirty Years' War. London:
K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1892.
Tupetz, Theodor. “Der Streit um die geistlichen Guter und das Restitutionsedikt.” Sitzungsberichte der
Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophische- Historische Klasse 102 (Vienna, 1853), 523-
566. Note: Gives a list of all the lands claimed by the Catholics.
Von Friedeburg, Robert. Self-Defense and Religious Strife in Early Modern Europe: England and Germany,
1530-1680. Aldershot, 2002.
Von Srbik, Heinrich Ritter. Wallensteins Ende. 2 ed. Salzburg, 1952.
Wakeman, Henry Offley. The Thirty Years' War From the Peace of Lubeck to the Peace of Prague. Boston:
Areprint Service, 1919.
Wandruszka, Adam. Reichspatriotismus und Reichspotlitik zur Zeit des Prager Freidens von 1635. Graz and
Cologne, 1955.
Ward, Sir A.W.; Prothero, Sir G.W.; Leathes, Sir Stanley KCB, eds. The Cambridge Modern History, Volume IV,
The Thirty Years' War. New York: Macmillan, 1906. Note: This book is out of print and its scholarship is
likely quite dated, but according to one recent reviewer, it is still the best narrative history of the Thirty
Years War available and is “unequaled” by any other book on the topic.
Wassenberg, E. Commentariorum de bello inter imperatores Ferdinandos II et III et eorum hostes gesto liber
singularis (many editions Since 1639).
Wedgwood, Cicely Veronica. The Thirty Years War. London: J. Cape, 1938. Note: Walter L. Dorn, in a 1940 book
review for the American Historical Review, describes this book at the best book on the Thirty Years War in
at least 32 years. He notes that she devotes her last four chapters to events that took place after the Peace
of Prague, claiming that this was an area that had not been properly addressed in any general narrative up to
that time. Also, he writes that Wedgwood, in contrast to Bireley and other later scholars, notes that
Ferdinand II was not the dedicated Catholic he had been portrayed as up till then and that he was more
dedicated to protecting his dynasty, even if it put him at odds with the Catholic League, than had to this
point (1940) been recognized.
Wilson, Peter. “New Perspectives on the Thirty Years War,” German History 23 (2005), 237-261. Note: This
article provides an excellent overview of the recent historiography of the Thirty Years War. According to
John Theibault, this article is the most up to date review of the war (out of twenty four recent works).