Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War - Malcolm, Noel (Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford)

Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating episode in seventeenth-century history.