http://www.metafilter.com/tags/ginormouskerfuffle Posts tagged with 'ginormouskerfuffle' at MetaFilter. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:32:07 -0800 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:32:07 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/86248/The%2DSurprisingly%2DAccurately%2DNamed%2DThirty%2DYears%2DWar <a href="http://www.pipeline.com/~cwa/TYWHome.htm">The Thirty Years War</a> is a website covers that ginormous kerfuffle that consumed Europe in the first half of the 17th Century from the <a href="http://www.pipeline.com/~cwa/Bohemian_Phase.htm">Second Defenestration of Prague</a> to the <a href="http://www.pipeline.com/~cwa/Westphalia_Phase.htm">Peace of Westphalia</a>. It has a <a href="http://www.pipeline.com/~cwa/Map/TYW_Map.htm">handy map with a place locator</a> which will help you tell your Schweidnitz from your Schweinfurt. Here are some other maps, <a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/central_europe_relig_1923.jpg">The Religious Situation in Central Europe about 1618</a>, <a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/europe_war_1618-1660.jpg">Principal Seats of War, 1618-1660</a> and <a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/europe_1648_westphal_1884.jpg">Europe in 1648 - Peace of Westphalia</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.86248 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:32:07 -0800 Austria Bohemia Calvinism Catholicism defenestration Denmark France Germany ginormouskerfuffle history HolyRomanEmpire Lutheranism PeaceofWestphalia Poland Protestantism Religion SecondDefenestrationofPrague Sweden ThirtyYearsWar Kattullus