Rory McCleery speaks to Peter H. Wilson, Professor of the History of War at Oxford University, and author of 'The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy'. They discuss the origins of the war, and its impact on life, culture, and Heinrich Schütz, who wrote his Kleine geistliche Konzerte during this time of war, famine, and plague.

This episode accompanies Schütz 2: A lump of earth, which you can watch here: https://www.marianconsort.co.uk/demand/lump-of-earth.

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Produced by James Hardie