Rome and the Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia: Jesuit Educational Strategy, 1553-1622

In this volume the author completes his study of the period of the Counter-Reformation between the years 1537- 1622. On the basis of the original documents he reveals the underground work of the agents of the Counter-Reformation in their attempt to entice eligible students from the far North to study at Jesuit colleges in Dorpat, Vilna, Braunsberg, Prague, Graz, and Rome at the expense of the Holy See with a view to infiltrating them into the body politic of the Scandinavian kingdoms at all levels of society, viz. church, school, state bureaucracy. In his analysis the author attempts to identify the students involved and trace their degree of success.

About the author

Oskar Bernhard Garstein, Th.D. (1954) and Ph.D. (1965), Oslo University, is Research Professor in Oslo. Next to many newspaper articles on historical subjects, his publications include "Rome and the Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia," Vols. I-III (1963 sqq.); "Epistolarum Commercium P. Laurentii Nicolai Norvegi S.J." (1980).

Product details

• Authors: Oskar Garstein
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.1991
• EAN: 9789004093935
• ISBN: 978-90-04-09393-5
• No. of pages: 462
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 240 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 1021 g
• Series: Studies in the History of Chri
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History