The task is not to give a detailed overview of Czech works and translations of foreign historians from the last century on the topic. It is about capturing a substantial piece of research and publishing what has been done.
Throughout the twentieth century, Czech historians, addressing the confessional roots of the Thirty Years' War, focused their attention on both Czech and Moravian confessional and political developments and tried to grasp the subject in its European context. This striving can not be separated from their confessional and political views.