‘Causing misery and suffering miserably’: Representations of the Thirty Years’ War in Literature and History

This article examines a range of fictional literature – poetry, prose, play and song produced between the seventeenth twenty-first centuries that represents aspects Thirty Years’ War, conflict fought in Europe from 1618 to 1648. Depiction War literary works is compared found empirical historical evidence historians’ analyses. It concluded fictions offer different, but equally valid, account academic histories, by using together, more holistic picture events offered than histories alone provide.