Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660-1697
Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660-1697

Author: Anthony F. Upton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-06-04

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780521573900

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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.

The 1600s
The 1600s

Author: Louise Gerdes

Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780737706352

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Emphasizing changes in scientific thought and the social structure, this book discusses Western Europe's rejection of traditional authority, the colonization of America, and the concept of a nation with a national government.

Calvinism on the Frontier, 1600-1660
Calvinism on the Frontier, 1600-1660

Author: Graeme Murdock

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 2000-08-03

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0191543284

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This is the first book to examine one of Europe's largest Protestant communities in Hungary and Transylvania. It highlights the place of the Hungarian Reformed church in the international Calvinist world, and reveals the impact of Calvinism on Hungarian politics and society. Calvinism attracted strong support in Hungary and Transylvania, where one of the largest Reformed churches was established by the early seventeenth century. Understanding of this Hungarian Reformed church remains the most significant missing element in the analysis of European Calvinism. The Hungarian Reformed church survived on narrow ground between the Habsburgs and Turks, thanks to support from Transylvanias princes and local nobles. They worked with Reformed clergy to maintain contact with western co-religionists, to combat confessional rivals, to improve standards of education and to impose moral discipline. However, there were also tensions within the church over further reforms of public worship and church government, and over the impact of puritanism. This book examines the development of the Hungarian church within the international Calvinist community, and the impact of Calvinism on Hungarian politics and society.

Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation
Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation

Author: Robin Healey

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2011-12-15

Total Pages: 1185

ISBN-13: 1442658479

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Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and includes translations wherever they have appeared across the globe. In this annotated bibliography, Robin Healey covers over 5,200 distinct editions of pre-1900 Italian writings. Most entries are accompanied by useful notes providing information on authors, works, translators, and how the translations were received. Among the works by over 1,500 authors represented in this volume are hundreds of editions by Italy's most translated authors – Dante Alighieri, Machiavelli, and Boccaccio – and other hundreds which represent the author's only English translation. A significant number of entries describe works originally published in Latin. Together with Healey's Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.