Abstract

This essay is a follow-up to Il 1998 come “turning-pointµ, published in the first issue of «Cristianesimo nella storia», 43, 2022. The first part of this article takes into account military treatises (a very vague category of texts, to which very different works and genres belong) as a source on which scholarship has interesting insights to offer. In its second part, the article summarises the main themes that historiography has focused on regarding the Thirty Years’ War in the past two decades. Overall, three main historiographical intersections emerge: the perception of war; peace, its reception, and the post-Westphalian State; and the issue of Machiavellianism