Frederik II and the Protestant Cause: Denmark's Role in the Wars of Religion, 1559-1596 (The Northern World, V. 10) [Hardcover]

Paul Douglas Lockhart (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 9004137904 | ISBN-13: 978-9004137905 | Publication Date: May 2004

This book considers the role played by Denmark's King Frederik II (1559-88) in the international diplomacy of the 'age of religious wars'. As Europe's leading Lutheran sovereign, Frederik commanded great influence; his conviction that an international Catholic 'conspiracy' threatened to destroy Protestantism led him to work towards the creation of a Protestant alliance that included both Calvinist and Lutheran states. Lockhart examines the role of religion in Frederik's foreign policy, the motivations behind the king's alliance-building projects, and the reasons behind the ultimate failure of Frederik's policies. This volume will be of interest to students of early modern diplomacy, sixteenth-century Protestantism, and the Scandinavian monarchies in the early modern period.

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About the Author

Paul Douglas Lockhart, Ph.D. (1989) in History, Purdue University, is currently Associate Professor of History at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. He has published extensively on early modern Scandinavian history, including Denmark in the Thirty Years’ War (Susquehanna, 1996).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 388 pages
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub (May 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9004137904
• ISBN-13: 978-9004137905
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,583,352 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Paul Lockhart fell in love with history as a first-grader, when his older brother -- Keith Lockhart, now of Boston Pops fame -- showed him a children's book on the Civil War. He's been writing about history ever since. After getting his Ph.D. at Purdue, where he studied European and military history, Lockhart joined the faculty at Wright State University, where he still teaches.