Rome and the Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia: The Age of Gustavus Adolphus and Queen Christina of Sweden, 1622-1656

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BRILL, 1992 - History - 833 pages
The author tries to trace the complex processes that combined to form the policies of the Roman Curia in cooperation with Propaganda, the Jesuit Fathers, and at times with the Great Catholic Powers vis-à-vis Scandinavia during the reigns of Christian IV of Denmark and Norway and most especially of the warrior king, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and of his daughter Queen Christina. On the basis of the original authentic documents in deposits all over Europe, though most especially in the Vatican, Propaganda, and Jesuit archives, the author attempts to unfold the clandestine work of the Counter-Reformation orchestrated from Rome during the Thirty Years' War. Moreover, he provides a partly new study of the motives that brought about the reconciliation with Rome of Queen Christina of Sweden.

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Contents

The Beginnings
4
Propagandas Opening Move
72
The Malmö Initiative
112
Assignment in Sweden
184
Subsequent Disasters
257
Tentative Plans
310
Startling Disclosures
326
Joannes Martini Rhugius
349
The Road to Rome
461
The French Embassy in Stockholm
500
Royal Enigma
525
Jesuit Encounter
624
Time of Troubles
666
Postscript
765
Sigla
777
Bibliography
789

Dialogue with Rome
380
The Spanish Embassy in Copenhagen
447

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About the author (1992)

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).