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The Thirty Years War: How Religious Peace Collapsed into Catastrophe
In 1618, the fragile religious truce of the Peace of Augsburg shattered when Protestant nobles in Prague threw two Catholic imperial officials out a window. That defenestration sparked the Thirty Years War, a conflict that would consume the Holy Roman Empire and much of Europe for three decades. Lucas and Luna explore how a seemingly local dispute in Bohemia drew in the Spanish Habsburgs, the Dutch Republic, Denmark's King Christian IV, Sweden's warrior king Gustavus Adolphus, and finally France's Cardinal Richelieu—who backed Protestants despite being a Catholic cardinal. They…
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