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Informationen zum Autor James L. Larson is Professor Emeritus of Scandinavian Languages at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the languages, literature, and history of northern Europe, with an emphasis on early modern history and culture. His interests in science, religion, and culture are unified by a concern with the process of secularization in Western culture. Larson has published several books, including Reason and Experience, a study of Linnaean classification; Interpreting Nature: The Science of Living Form from Linnaeus to Kant, a history of eighteenth-century life sciences; and Renaissance of the Goths, a translation of a study of the last Catholic archbishops of Sweden in the sixteenth century. He has also published papers in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Isis, Janus, the Journal of the History of Biology, the Journal of the History of Ideas, Scandinavian Studies, and Scandinavica. Klappentext Reforming the North offers a broad perspective on the Protestant Reformation in Scandinavia and on the implications of the reformation for Northern history. Zusammenfassung Reforming the North offers a broad perspective on the Protestant Reformation in Scandinavia and on the implications of the reformation for Northern history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The North; Part I. Lord of the Northern World, 1512-23: 2. Preliminary; 3. Christian II's other kingdom; 4. A conquest; 5. Hubris; 6. Insurrection; 7. The king's fall; Part II. Successors, 1523-33: 8. The new men; 9. Brushfires; 10. Reform by indirection; 11. Reform by decree; 12. Return of the king; Part III. Civil War, 1533-6: 13. A republic of nobles; 14. Reactions; 15. The war of all against all; 16. The fall of Copenhagen; Part IV. The Settlement, 1536-45: 17. A new order; 18. Under the crown of Denmark eternally; 19. Dilemmas of a very early modern state; 20. Supremacy and its discontents; 21. Conclusion.
