Question: The Battle of Tornavento was a feature of the Thirty Years' War, a religious conflict across which continent?

Context articles: Chad Ford
Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years' War
The Last Valley (novel)
Bohemian Revolt
Asoka Bandarage
Battle of Tornavento
Wallenstein (novel)
Bishops' Wars
Bündner Wirren
Thirty Years' War

Chad Ford is an Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University – Hawaii (BYUH).
 He is Director of the University's McKay Center and is known for his study of conflict resolution with an emphasis on large group ethnic and religious conflict, as well as for his sports journalism with ESPN.
The Swedish invasion of the Holy Roman Empire, or the Swedish Intervention in the Thirty Years' War is a historically accepted division of the Thirty Years' War.
 It was a military conflict that took place between 1630 and 1635, during the course of the Thirty Years' War.
 It was a major turning point of the war, as during this time, the Protestant cause, previously on the verge of defeat, won several major victories and snatched victory away from the Habsburg-Catholic coalition.
 It is often considered to be an independent conflict by most historians.
The Last Valley (1959), by J. B. Pick, is an historical novel about the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648).
 The story occurs from September 1637 to March 1638, and centres on two men – a mercenary soldier and an intellectual – who are fleeing the destruction and starvation wrought by religious war.
 In southern Germany, each man stumbles upon a fertile valley untouched by the war.
 Soldier and intellectual, man of arms and man of mind, must collaborate to preserve the peace and plenty of the last valley from the stress and strain of the religious bigotry that caused thirty years of war in Europe.
The Bohemian Revolt (1618–1620) was an uprising of the Bohemian estates against the rule of the Habsburg dynasty that began the Thirty Years' War.
 It was caused by both religious and power disputes (the estates were almost entirely Utraquist).
 The dispute culminated after several battles in the final Battle of White Mountain, where the estates suffered a decisive defeat.
 This started re-Catholisation of the Czech lands, but also triggered the Thirty Years' War, which spread to the rest of Europe and devastated vast areas of central Europe, including the Czech lands.
Asoka Bandarage is an Affiliated Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute in Washington, DC.
 Her courses include Comparative Ethnic and Religious Conflict, Democracy in South Asia, Global Social Movements, Women in International Security, and Conflict Analysis and Resolution.
 Bandarage specializes in international development, political economy, women and gender studies, multiculturalism, conflict analysis and resolution, peace and security, South Asia, Sri Lanka, population and ecology.
The Battle of Tornavento was a battle fought in Italy on June 22, 1636 during the Thirty Years' War.
Wallenstein is a 1920 historical novel by German author Alfred Döblin.
 Set in Central Europe during the Thirty Years War, the novel's plot is organized around the polar figures of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, on the one hand, and Albrecht von Wallenstein, on the other.
 Döblin's approach to narrating the war differed from prevailing historiography in that, rather than interpreting the Thirty Years War primarily as a religious conflict, he portrays it critically as the absurd consequence of a combination of national-political, financial, and individual psychological factors.
 Döblin saw a strong similarity between the Thirty Years War and the First World War, during which he wrote "Wallenstein".
 The novel is counted among the most innovative and significant historical novels in the German literary tradition.
 In large part, contemporary critics found the novel to be difficult, dense, and chaotic—a reception Döblin discussed in his 1921 essay "The Epic Writer, His Material, and Criticism"—yet writers such as Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Blei, and Herbert Ihering praised "Wallenstein" for its formal innovation, poetic language, epic scope, and bold departure from other German writing of the time.
 Despite the novel's difficulty, the critical consensus was that "Wallenstein" was a major achievement and confirmed the promise seen in Döblin's earlier historical novel, "The Three Leaps of Wang Lun".
The Bishops' Wars (Latin: "Bellum Episcopale" ) were conflicts, both political and military, which occurred in 1639 and 1640 centred on the nature of the governance of the Church of Scotland, and the rights and powers of the Crown.
 They constitute part of a larger political conflict across Scotland, England and Ireland, and are often considered a prelude to the English Civil Wars.
 They were so named due to the central conflict between Charles I, who favoured an episcopal system of church government for Scotland (that is, with bishops), and the desire of much of the polity of Scotland for a presbyterian system of governance (without bishops).
The Bündner Wirren (Romansh: "Scumbigls grischuns/Scumpigls grischuns/Sgurdins grischuns" , French: "Troubles des Grisons" , Italian: "Torbidi grigionesi" , English: "Confusion of Graubünden" or "Confusion of the Leagues") was a conflict that lasted between 1618 and 1639 in what is now the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
 The Bündner Wirren was a conflict between the alliance of France and Venice against the Spanish-Austrian Habsburg Monarchy over control of the alpine passes and religion as part of the larger Thirty Years War.
 The conflict in Graubünden threatened to draw the Swiss Confederation into the Thirty Years War.
The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts, as well as the deadliest European religious war in history.
 It took place in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648 and resulted in eight million casualties.