“Protestant propaganda presented the Thirty Years War as a papal crusade, with the Jesuits as the pontiff’s storm troopers.” — Peter H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The Swedes captured 5,000 new uniforms, broke into monasteries, held the monks to ransom, and opened the crypts to steal rings from the corpses.… — Peter H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Protestant propaganda presented the Thirty Years War as a papal crusade, with the Jesuits as the pontiff’s storm troopers.” — Peter H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Though they are now largely silent, the voices from the seventeenth century still speak to us from the innumerable texts and images we are… — Peter H. Wilson Copy Share Image