Book Cover of History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 1

History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 1
by Friedrich Schiller

Name: History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 1
Author: Friedrich Schiller

The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Written for a wider audience than Revolt, it is a vivid history, colored by Schiller’s own interest in the question of human freedom and his rationalist optimism. Volume 1 covers the background of the war, through the Battle of Prague in late 1620.

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History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 1 by Friedrich Schiller

History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 2 by Friedrich Schiller

History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 3 by Friedrich Schiller

History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 4 by Friedrich Schiller

History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 5 by Friedrich Schiller

Book Details

Language

English

Original Language

German

Published In

1790

Genre/Category

History Political Science

Tags/Keywords

Early Modern Protestants Catholicism

Author

Friedrich Schiller

Germany

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated,...