We’re joined by historian Dr. Eleanor Janega to discuss daily life among the pre-modern peasants, townspeople and nobles of Hell on Earth.

Commonwealth, Restoration, Glorious Revolution: we complete England’s cycle of political instability and, with a little help from our old friends the Dutch, birth a new order into the world.

While the Thirty Years War rages on, in England, a similar set of crises leads to Civil War.

The Peace of Westphalia concludes the war and introduces a new phase of political and economic conflict to Europe.

The apocalyptic effects of years of war on the population transform central Europe into Hell on Earth.

King Gustavus Adolphus brings the seemingly unstoppable power of Sweden crashing through central Germany.

The Danes stage a daring intervention against the Habsburgs. Enter: Wallenstein & Richelieu.

Dynastic ambitions, messianic delusions and One High Fall topple the Holy Roman Empire into war.

The royal dynasties of Europe strain to confront reformation, centralization and modernization in their own distinct ways as we bring them up to the eve of the Thirty Years War.

The Black Death, the rise of the Habsburgs, and the dream of the Universal Monarch.