PROBLEMS AND SOURCES

This period of the war, which used to be called the War of the Palatinate, was investigated by A. Gindely, J. Goll, and later chiefly by O. Odložilík.

The work of the Moravian historian František Hrubý has helped to form a new picture of the period. His first book, The Collapse of the Bohemian Uprising in Moravia, was followed by the excellent biography of Ladislav Velen of Zerotín, mentioned above, and by his edition of Moravian Correspondence and Documents 1620–1636 (volume I, 1620–1624). The collection Albrecht Wallenstein and Bohemia after the White Mountain, also mentioned above, contains studies of various aspects of the situation in the Bohemian lands after 1620. E. Nohejlová-Prátová has explored questions of the currency in those critical years, and V. Pešák has worked on taxation in the same period. V. Líva's edition contains source material for military actions, and T. V. Bílek has studied the confiscations.

On the basis of materials in the State Archive at Weimar, I have investigated the policies of the dukes of Saxe-Weimar. I have also explored the rôle of Spanish forces in actions against Bethlen, Mansfeld and the rebels, and Dutch attempts to form a new anti-Habsburg coalition under Danish or Swedish leadership. I have also published in collaboration with Miroslav Hroch a study of the general aspects of the ‘Bohemian question’ in the early period of the Thirty Years' War.