Warrior Kings of Sweden: The Rise of an Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

ISBN-13: 9780786428731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 308 str.

Gary Dean Peterson

Opis

This narrative covers Sweden's Age of Greatness (1632?1718) and the warrior-kings who governed that age. It chronologically describes the political and religious events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and reveals how these events produced the climate for European global expansion, including the exploration and colonization of the New World. The story traces history through the reigns of Sweden's ambitious rulers, beginning with the presumably Swedish Goths who ravaged the Roman Empire in the 2nd century CE and continuing through the end of the empire in the early eighteenth century. A thorough epilogue documents the cultural flowering in the arts and sciences that commenced in the Age of Greatness and continued to blossom in the centuries that followed. This final section of the book pays special attention to the personalities that drove Sweden's far-reaching cultural progress.