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‘Causing misery and suffering miserably’: Representations of the Thirty Years’ War in literature and history

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

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 9, 2020
Online Publication Date May 5, 2021
Publication Date May 5, 2021
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Literature & History
Print ISSN 0306-1973
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 30
Issue 1
Pages 3-25
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/03061973211007353
Keywords Thirty Years' War; historical fiction; academic history; seventeenth century
Publisher URL https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03061973211007353

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