Thirty Years' War
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the Thirty Years' War
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
The prolonged European war (1618-1648) that formed the backdrop to Grotius's life and work.
He saw his own country rising from a baptism of blood and all Europe rent and torn by the awful struggle of the Thirty Years’ War, in the midst of which his great work was written and to whose conclusion it served as a guide and inspiration.
Gustavus Adolphus had placed the work of Grotius along side his Bible under his soldier’s pillow, as he prosecuted his campaigns in the Thirty Years’ War.
At the time when Grotius left Stockholm, the last of the plenipotentiaries had arrived at Münster and Osnabrück to attend the great European congress convoked to terminate the hostilities of the Thirty Years’ War.
Ancient Law
The prolonged European conflict whose horrors are cited as contributing to the acceptance of Grotius's international law.
The horrors of the Thirty Years’ War, the boundless terror and pity which the unbridled license of the soldiery was exciting, must, no doubt, be taken to explain that success in some measure, but they do not wholly account for it.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The Continental conflict whose troubles James I sought to settle by means of the Spanish alliance.
The proposed marriage of the Prince of Wales with a Spanish Infanta, and James’s desire to settle the troubles on the Continent caused by the outbreak of the Thirty Years’ War by means of the Spanish alliance, was received with disapprobation by all classes of Englishmen;