Christian IV (1577-1648) was Denmark's most renowned king. He led his country through a period of political and cultural ascendancy, but also mired it in a costly war against Sweden and the devastating Thirty Years' War in Germany. At Frederiksborg...

Denmark in the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648. King Christian IV and the Decline of the Oldenburg State. By Paul Douglas Lockhart. (Selinsgrove and London: Susquehanna University Press, 1996. Pp. 347. $48.50.) Of the four phases into which historians traditionally divide the Thirty...

Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum P, U Copenhagen, 2002. Pp. 454. In 1618 the Danish state engaged Johannes Pontanus, a Latin professor at Harderwijk, as royal historiographer; in exchange for 500 rigsdaler a year Pontanus agreed to write a history of Denmark from the...