The Letter That Arrived Four Hundred Years Late
Early Modern Europe

The Letter That Arrived Four Hundred Years Late

In 1974, construction workers in Prague discovered a letter that could have prevented the Thirty Years' War.

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Early Modern Europe17th CenturyHabsburg DynastyThirty Years WarPragueCatholic ChurchProtestant ReformationHoly Roman EmpireBohemiaReligious ConflictDiplomatic HistoryFerdinand II

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