Frederik II and the Protestant Cause

Denmark's Role in the Wars of Religion, 1559-1596
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13790-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 244 mm x 163 mm, Gewicht: 826 g

Reihe: The Northern World

This book considers the role played by Denmark’s King Frederik II (1559-88) in the international diplomacy of the 'age of religious wars'. As Europe’s leading Lutheran sovereign, Frederik commanded great influence; his conviction that an international Catholic 'conspiracy' threatened to destroy Protestantism led him to work towards the creation of a Protestant alliance that included both Calvinist and Lutheran states.
Lockhart examines the role of religion in Frederik’s foreign policy, the motivations behind the king’s alliance-building projects, and the reasons behind the ultimate failure of Frederik’s policies.
This volume will be of interest to students of early modern diplomacy, sixteenth-century Protestantism, and the Scandinavian monarchies in the early modern period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lockhart, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations
List of maps
Note on conventions
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Ch. 1 Introduction 1
Ch. 2 An emerging power, 1536-1572 13
The legacy of Christian III, 1536-59 14
Frederik II 29
Resources: military, naval, and financial 55
Ch. 3 Religion and foreign policy, 1559-1572 63
Frederik II and the state church 65
Confessional identity and foreign policy, 1559-72 83
Ch. 4 Two weddings and a conspiracy, 1572-1577 101
The 'bloody wedding' and the Baltic threat, 1572-80 104
The Papist conspiracy 128
Ch. 5 Protestant solidarity and the imperial crisis, 1577-1583 143
Catholic resurgence and protestant solidarity 145
Frederik II and the 'book of discord' 157
Prospects for a protestant alliance, 1577-83 174
Realignment 189
Ch. 6 The common cause, 1583-1585 202
Their ambitions have become as one 202
This manifestly wanton and devilish act 219
The English initiative, 1585 225
Ch. 7 The third peril, 1586-1588 242
To spare the blood of thousands 243
Towards Luneburg 252
The Dutch quagmire 273
I have little hope 290
Ch. 8 Retreat 298
The regency and isolationism 300
But our pious king of Denmark has passed over to God too soon. 308
Bibliography 329
Index 339

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Douglas Lockhart, Ph.D. (1989) in History, Purdue University, is currently Associate Professor of History at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. He has published extensively on early modern Scandinavian history, including Denmark in the Thirty Years’ War (Susquehanna, 1996).