Two-day conference at the IEG in Mainz. The Thirty Years War is notorious for levels of bloodshed, massacre, and atrocity arguably unprecedented in European history. Conference participants will investigate whether and in what ways frequent exposure to excessive violence in war over a period of several decades shaped European political, legal and theological discourse during the period of the Thirty Years’ War and over subsequent decades. This is the first of two conferences organised as part of the project "Massacre and the Law: Atrocity, the Holy Roman Empire and the Thirty Years War" funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation. The event language is English. Kontakt: Dr. Harald E. Braun (hbraun@liverpool.ac.uk), University of Liverpool, und Prof. Dr. Daniel Schwartz (daniel.schwartz3@mail.huji.ac.il), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Kontakt am IEG: Prof. Dr. Nicole Reinhardt (reinhardt@ieg-mainz.de), Direktorin des Leibniz-Instituts für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) in Mainz Anmeldungen richten Interessierte bitte an Deborah Karrer (deborah.karrer@mail.huji.ac.il), Forschungsassistentin des Projektes, oder an Dr. Harald E. Braun (hbraun@liverpool.ac.uk) Bildrechte: Hans Ulrich Franck (1595-1675), »Der nächtliche Ueberfall«, © Wikimedia Commons