The complete online text of Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1614-17 by John Lothrop Motley.

John Lothrop Motley (15 April 1814-29 May 1877), historian, was one of the most prominent figures in the mid-nineteenth century "classic age" of historical writing in the United States. He was born into a mercantile family in Dorchester, Massachusetts. H...

The American historian and diplomat John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877) is best known for his outstanding history of the Dutch struggle for independence. John Lothrop Motley was born in Dorchester, Mass., on April 15, 1814, to an old New England merchant fam...

John Lothrop Motley, Massachusetts-born historian of early modern Europe from the revolt of the Netherlands against Spain in the mid-sixteenth century until the eve of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), won overwhelming popular acclaim for his first major...

The Thirty Years War produced one of the largest outpourings of supplications and descriptions of misery in response to economic and demographic crisis in European History. This article investigates those descriptions of misery--hitherto either accepted at face value as eyewitness accounts or dismissed as...