This article examines a range of fictional literature – poetry, prose, play and song produced between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries – that represents aspects of the Thirty Years’ War, a conflict fought in Europe from 1618 to 1648. Depiction of the Thirty Years’ War in literary works is compared to that found in empirical historical evidence and historians’ analyses. It is concluded that historical fictions offer a different, but equally valid, account of the conflict to academic histories, and that by using historical fictions and empirical evidence together, a more holistic picture of events is offered than academic histories alone provide.

本文研究了一系列虚构文学作品，包括十七世纪至二十一世纪之间创作的诗歌，散文，戏剧和歌曲，这些文学作品代表了三十年战争的面貌，这场战争是1618至1648年在欧洲发生的一场冲突。将文学作品中的“多年战争”与经验性历史证据和历史学家的分析相提并论。结论是，历史小说对学术历史的冲突提供了不同但同样有效的解释，并且通过结合使用历史小说和经验证据，可以提供比仅学术历史更全面的事件图景。