Gustav Vasa And The Swedish Revolution
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Author | : Paul Watson |
Publisher | : Ozymandias Press |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2018-01-19 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1531279376 |
Gustav I, born Gustav Eriksson of the Vasa noble family and later known as Gustav Vasa, was King of Sweden from 1523 until his 1560 death, previously self-recognised Protector of the Realm from 1521, during the ongoing Swedish War of Liberation against King Christian II of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Initially of low standing, Gustav rose to lead the rebel movement following the Stockholm Bloodbath, in which his father perished. Gustav's election as King on 6 June 1523 and his triumphant entry into Stockholm eleven days later meant the end of Medieval Sweden's elective monarchy and the Kalmar Union, and the birth of a hereditary monarchy under the House of Vasa and its successors, including the current House of Bernadotte.
Author | : Michael Roberts |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1986-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521311823 |
This comprehensive history of sixteenth-century Sweden has remained a standard work for English-speaking historians since its publication in 1968. It is now available in paperback for the first time. The book includes a full account of the reign of Gustav Vasa (1523-60), one of the greatest rulers of his age, and of the half-century after his death that paved the way for Sweden's emergence as a great power. Professor Roberts provides an account of the course of the Swedish Reformation: he analyses those trans-Baltic entanglements which were to assume such importance, both for Sweden and for Europe, in the next century; and he pays particular attention to the constitutional controversies which reached their climax, though not their end, with the deposition of King Sigismund and the 'Bloodbath of Linköping'.
Author | : Anthony F. Upton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1998-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521573900 |
The reading public outside Sweden knows little of that country's history, beyond the dramatic and short-lived era in the seventeenth century when Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus became a major European power by her intervention in the Thirty Years War. In the last decades of the seventeenth century another Swedish king, Charles XI, launched a less dramatic but remarkable bid to stabilize and secure Sweden's position as a major power in northern Europe and as master of the Baltic Sea. This project, which is almost unknown to students of history outside Sweden, involved a comprehensive overhaul of the government and institutions of the kingdom, on the basis of establishing Sweden as a model of absolute monarchy. This 1998 book gives an account of what was achieved under the absolutist direction of a distinctly unglamorous, but pious and conscientious ruler.
Author | : Knut Helle |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 942 |
Release | : 2003-09-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521472999 |
This volume presents a comprehensive exposition of both the prehistory and medieval history of the whole of Scandinavia. The first part of the volume surveys the prehistoric and historic Scandinavian landscape and its natural resources, and tells how man took possession of this landscape, adapting culturally to changing natural conditions and developing various types of community throughout the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. The rest - and most substantial part of the volume - deals with the history of Scandinavia from the Viking Age to the end of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (c. 1520). The external Viking expansion opened Scandinavia to European influence to a hitherto unknown degree. A Christian church organisation was established, the first towns came into being, and the unification of the three medieval kingdoms of Scandinavia began, coinciding with the formation of the unique Icelandic 'Free State'.
Author | : Paul Barron Watson |
Publisher | : Mundus Publishing |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Sweden |
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Author | : Paul Watson |
Publisher | : Jovian Press |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2017-12-03 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 153780376X |
THE manor of Lindholm lies in the centre of a smiling district about twenty miles north of the capital of Sweden. Placed on a height between two fairy lakes, it commands a wide and varied prospect over the surrounding country. The summit of this height was crowned, at the close of the fifteenth century, by a celebrated mansion. Time and the ravages of man have long since thrown this mansion to the ground; but its foundation, overgrown with moss and fast crumbling to decay, still marks the site of the ancient structure, and from the midst of the ruins rises a rough-hewn stone bearing the name Gustav Vasa. On this spot he was born, May 12, 1496.
Author | : Martina Sprague |
Publisher | : Hippocrene Books |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780781811149 |
With its midnight sun and Gulf Stream climate, Sweden is a land of contradictions. It is home to petroglyphs dating from 9000 BC, thriving high-tech industries, and the ubiquitous design chain Ikea. A comparatively peaceful and economically stable twentieth century secured its reputation as a great place to live, with a solid economy and generous welfare system. Emigration reversed itself -- now over ten percent of the country's nine million residents were born abroad. When Sweden entered the EU in 1995, and introduced the Euro in 2002, visiting became even easier. This short history is ideal for travellers, students, and those with an eye to the new Europe.
Author | : Paul Barron Watson |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2020-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 146551046X |
Author | : Sir Adolphus William Ward |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1064 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : History, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gustavus I [Vasa] (King of Sweden.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Sweden |
ISBN | : |