The Stockholm Bloodbath on November 7–9, 1520, during which Kristian II had more than 100 persons executed on charges of heresy, is a turning point in the history of the Northern kingdoms. This bloodbath eventually led to Kristian II’s lifelong incarceration, the rise of the Swedish Vasa dynasty, and the end of the Kalmar Union. It has commonly been perceived both as part of Swedish-Danish conflict and also as part of a Swedish civil war. In this volume, fifteen researchers offer new insights both into the events themselves and also, most significantly, into their background and aftermath, which stretch far beyond Stockholm and the year 1520.
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Maps Introduction 1: Heiko Droste & Kurt Villads Jensen – Stockholm Bloodbath in Nordic historiography Politics 2: Lars Bisgaard – Christian 2. A controversial king 3: Lars Ericson Wolke – Operational Military Aspects of the Events of 1520 4: Per Stobaeus – Gustav Trolle och Stockholms blodbad Stockholm 5: Sofia Gustafsson – Every second officeholder executed in the bloodbath Collective guilt and punishment of the burgher community 6: Gabriela Bjarne Larsson – Female Leadership in Times of Crisis. Stockholm 1517–1525 7: Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen – The Stockholm Blackfriars and the Bloodbath: An Indifferent Dominican Detail or an Important Instance of Inquisition? Religion and Media 8: Wilhelm Ljungar – Christian II and Stockholm’s Bloodbath Holy Warfare between Crusading and Reformation. 9: Laura-Marie Mork – The Political Communication under Gustav Vasa The Importance of the Stockholm Bloodbath in the Struggle for Legitimate Bishops 10: Hannah M. Kreß – The Stockholm Bloodbath and king Christian II’s tyranny as rhetorical pattern throughout Gustav Vasa’s reign 11: Tobias E. Hämmerle – Gustav Vasa’s Bloodbath-broadsheet from 1524 The genesis of media images in the context of the Stockholm Bloodbath Aftermath 12. Kirsi Salonen – “He is totally innocent”: The Discussion about the Guilt of King Christian II in the Papal Curia 13. Erik Opsahl – To elect a Tyrant? Christian II's Re-entry as Norwegian King, 1531-32 14. Sverre Bagge – The Weibull School and the Stockholm Bloodbath
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ISBN
9789463724197
Publisert
2025-04-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Amsterdam University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
292

Biographical note

HEIKO DROSTE (b. 1963; Ph.D. 1994, Hamburg University) is Professor of Urban History at Stockholm University and head of the Institute for Urban History. He specializes in the late medieval and early modern history of the Baltic Sea Region, with a focus on cities, communication, diplomacy, the postal system and the historiography of cities. His latest publications concern the Baroque news market and include The Business of News (Leiden: Brill, 2021), as well as the Baroque Historian’s Confession: Reflections on the Baroque Economy (Lund: Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, 2021). KURT VILLADS JENSEN (b. 1957; Ph.D. 1992, Copenhagen University; D.Phil. 2011, University of Southern Denmark) is Professor of Medieval History and director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at Stockholm University. He has worked with cultural and religious encounters in medieval Latin Europe, as well as with military history and crusading, comparing the Baltic Sea Region and the Iberian Peninsula. He is now studying the relationship between changes in Latin sacramental theology and the implications for the concept of sacred warfare c. 1050–1300.