Internationally, the case of early modern Sweden is noteworthy because the state building process transformed a locally dispersed and sparsely populated area in

In the seventeenth century, riots, rebellions, and revolts flared around Europe. Concerned about their internal stability, many states responded by closely obse

The 'Age of Revolution' is a term seldom used in Scandinavian historiography, despite the fact that Scandinavia was far from untouched by the late eighteenth-ce

Persons living in the old Estate society were expected to live according to their position, and to be content with the situation into which they were born. But

The discourse of political counsel in early modern Europe depended on the participation of men, as both counsellors and counselled. Women were often thought too