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Informationen zum Autor E. I. Kouri is Professor Emeritus of General History at the University of Helsinki. He is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions. Jens E. Olesen holds the Chair for Nordic History at the University of Greifswald. He is a specialist on Nordic history, dealing especially with late medieval/Reformation and early modern history of Scandinavia and Finland. He has published extensively on the Kalmar Union and on the struggle for the Baltic between Denmark-Norway and Sweden. Klappentext Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Scandinavia provides a comprehensive and authoritative account of the Scandinavian countries from the close of the Middle Ages through to the formation of the nation states in the mid-nineteenth century. Beginning in 1520, the opening chapters of the volume discuss the reformation of the Nordic states and the enormous impact this had on the social structures, cultural identities and traditions of individual countries. With contributions from 38 leading historians, the book charts the major developments that unfolded within this crucial period of Scandinavian history. Chapters address topics such as material growth and the centralisation of power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as well as the evolution of trade, foreign policy and client states in the eighteenth century. Volume 2 concludes by discussing the new economic and social orders of the nineteenth century in connection with the emergence of the nation states. Zusammenfassung An illustrated! authoritative history of the Scandinavian countries from the close of the Middle Ages through to the formation of the nation states in the mid-nineteenth century. Beginning in 1520! the book discusses the impact of the Reformation! as well as social change! economic development! trade and Europeanisation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction E. I. Kouri and Jens E. Olesen; Part I: 1. The disintegration of the medieval church Martin Schwartz Lausten; 2. Social, political and religious tensions Lars Olof Larsson; 3. The Reformation in Denmark, Norway and Iceland Ole Peter Grell; 4. The Reformation in Sweden and Finland E. I. Kouri; 5. Intellectual currents Ole Peter Grell; 6. The crown and the aristocracy in cooperation in Denmark Heikki Ylikangas; Part II: 7. Growth and stagnation of population and settlement Eljas Orrman; 8. Economic growth and trade Knud J. V. Jespersen; 9. Social consequences Knud J. V. Jespersen; Part III: 10. The internationalisation of the Baltic market Åke Sandström; 11. The Dutch and the English in the Baltic, the North Sea, and the Arctic Ole Peter Grell; 12. The struggle for supremacy in the Baltic between Denmark-Norway and Sweden, 1563-1721 Jens E. Olesen; 13. Militarisation of Scandinavia, 1520-1870 Gunner Lind; 14. Colonial empires Erik Gøbel; 15. The military imperative Leon Jespersen; 16. Fiscal and military developments Leon Jespersen; 17. From aristocratic regime to absolutism, 1660-82 Leon Jespersen; 18. The consolidation of the Nordic states: the Europeanisation of Scandinavia Leon Jespersen; 19. Centre and periphery Oystein Rian; 20. Religious and social regimentation Ole Peter Grell; Part IV: 21. Demography and family, c.1650-1815 Solvi Sogner; 22. Economy and social conditions Dan H. Andersen and Jens Chr. V. Johansen; 23. Material and popular culture Jens Chr. V. Johansen; 24. The situation of the commoners, 1650-1750 Harald Gustafsson; 25. Religious and intellectual currents Seppo Salminen; 26. Cultural Europeanisation, court culture and aristocratic taste, c.1580-1750 Jorgen Hein; 27. Architecture, literature and the arts Allan Ellenius; 28. Music at the Danish and Swedish courts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries John Bergsagel; 29. Music in Scandinavia in the eighteenth century John Bergsagel; Part V: 30. Constitution and...
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E. I. Kouri is Professor Emeritus of General History at the University of Helsinki. He is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions.Jens E. Olesen holds the Chair for Nordic History at the University of Greifswald. He is a specialist on Nordic history, dealing especially with late medieval/Reformation and early modern history of Scandinavia and Finland. He has published extensively on the Kalmar Union and on the struggle for the Baltic between Denmark-Norway and Sweden.
