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.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Stockholm Bloodbath in Nordic Historiography
- Heiko Droste and Kurt Villads Jensen
- Politics
- 2. Christian II: A Controversial King
- 3. Operational Military Aspects of the Events of 1520
- 4. Gustav Trolle and the Stockholm Bloodbath
- Stockholm
- 5. Every Second Officeholder Executed in the Bloodbath: Collective Guilt and Punishment of the Burgher Community
- 6. Female Leadership in Times of Crisis: Stockholm 1517–1525
- 7. The Stockholm Blackfriars and the Bloodbath: An Indifferent Dominican Detail or an Important Instance of Inquisition?
- Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen
- Religion and Media
- 8. Christian II and Stockholm’s Bloodbath: Holy Warfare between Crusading and Reformation
- 9. The Political Communication under Gustav I Vasa: The Importance of the Stockholm Bloodbath in the Struggle for Legitimate Bishops
- 10. The Stockholm Bloodbath and King Christian II’s Tyranny as Rhetorical Pattern in Gustav Vasa’s Letters and Other Communication
- 11. Gustav Vasa’s Bloodbath Broadsheet from 1524: The Genesis of Media Images in the Context of the Stockholm Bloodbath
- Aftermath
- 12. ‘He is Totally Innocent’: The Discussion about the Guilt of King Christian II in the Papal Curia
- 13. To Elect a Tyrant? Christian II’s Re-Entry as Norwegian King 1531–1532
- 14. The Weibull School and the Stockholm Bloodbath
- Index of Persons
- Index of Places
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