The Historian, March 22nd, 1998
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 Years' War, the Danish Period (1625-1629) is virtually ignored by English-speaking scholars. Indeed, shockingly little exists in English on this subject, let alone on the early modern Oldenburg state or the reign of King Christian IV (1595-1648). Finally, this lacuna has been addressed by Paul Lockhart. Starting wi...
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