Music & Silence

Music & Silence
Author: Anne Redmon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2001-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0743418263

This is the story of a young English lutenist named Peter Claire who, in 1629, arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra.

Christian IV

Christian IV
Author: Jens Gunni Busck
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2018-05-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9788793229129

"Published in cooperation with the Royal Danish Collection."

A Stage for the King

A Stage for the King
Author: Patrick Kragelund
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-12-31
Genre: Decoration and ornament, Architectural
ISBN: 9788763545945

Frederiksborg Castle, one of Northern Europe's most magnificent seventeenth-century palaces, was devastated by fire in 1859. Despite large-scale renovation, Frederiksborg's numerous freestanding sculptures and reliefs were never fully restored. This book focuses on the architectural impact on Frederiksborg Castle of royal visits to Dresden in Germany and to Elizabethan Theobalds near London and aims to recreate an idea of how the palace presented itself to visitors at its pre-fire peak, using over a hundred photos and illustrations to show that the complex sculptural programs were a crucial organizing principle for the grounds and facades.

Christian IV and his Navy

Christian IV and his Navy
Author: Martin Bellamy
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2006-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047411293

During Christian IV’s highly influential reign, the Danish navy grew to be one of the most significant – if flawed – navies in Europe.This book provides a detailed survey of its politics, administration and operation.

Denmark in the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648

Denmark in the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
Author: Paul Douglas Lockhart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN:

Although Denmark, under the leadership of the dynamic King Christian IV (1596-1648) was truly one of Europe's great powers in the early seventeenth century, historians have generally neglected its role in the Thirty Years' War.

The Thirty Years War

The Thirty Years War
Author: C. V. Wedgwood
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1681371235

Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction.

The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 4, Christianity in Western Europe, c.1100–c.1500

The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 4, Christianity in Western Europe, c.1100–c.1500
Author: Miri Rubin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1004
Release: 2014-07-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1316175693

During the early middle ages, Europe developed complex and varied Christian cultures, and from about 1100 secular rulers, competing factions and inspired individuals continued to engender a diverse and ever-changing mix within Christian society. This volume explores the wide range of institutions, practices and experiences associated with the life of European Christians in the later middle ages. The clergy of this period initiated new approaches to the role of priests, bishops and popes, and developed an ambitious project to instruct the laity. For lay people, the practices of parish religion were central, but many sought additional ways to enrich their lives as Christians. Impulses towards reform and renewal periodically swept across Europe, led by charismatic preachers and supported by secular rulers. This book provides accessible accounts of these complex historical processes and entices the reader towards further enquiry.

Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy

Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy
Author: Nora Berend
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2007-11-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139468367

This 2007 text is a comparative, analysis of one of the most fundamental stages in the formation of Europe. Leading scholars explore the role of the spread of Christianity and the formation of new principalities in the birth of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Bohemia, Hungary, Poland and Rus' around the year 1000. Drawing on history, archaeology and art history, and emphasizing problems related to the sources and historiographical debates, they demonstrate the complex interdependence between the processes of religious and political change, covering conditions prior to the introduction of Christianity, the adoption of Christianity, and the development of the rulers' power. Regional patterns emerge, highlighting both the similarities in ruler-sponsored cases of Christianization, and differences in the consolidation of power and in institutions introduced by Christianity. The essays reveal how local societies adopted Christianity; medieval ideas of what constituted the dividing line between Christians and non-Christians; and the connections between Christianity and power.