Sweden as a great power 1611-1697: Government, society, foreign policy (Documents of modern history)

Contents Preface Introduction A King, Council and Diet I Gustav Adolf’s Accession Charter, 31 December 1611 II The riksdag-Ordinance of 1617 III King and Estates: Gustav Adolf’s farewell speech to the Estates, 19 May 1630 IV King and minister V The Form of Government, 1634 VI The Regents and the Estates, 1633-42 VII Oxenstierna and the Council, 1636 VIII Oxenstierna and the Estates, 1642 IX The Programme of the Opposition, 1647 X Constitutional issues at the Diet of 1650 XI Addition to the Form of Government, 1660 XII The Regency and the Council, 1665 XIII An Italian’s impressions of the Swedish constitution, 1674 XIV The attack on the Regents and the Council, 1675 XV The downfall of the Regents and the Council, 1680 XVI The consolidation of absolutism, 1682 XVII The culmination of absolutism, 1689-93 XVIII Some dicta of Karl XI B The Social Crisis XIX Resolution of the Diet of Norrköping, 1604 XX Alienation of crown revenues, 1612 XXI Gustav Adolf attempts to safeguard peasant rights, 1627 XXII Sale of crown lands, 1638 XXIII Peasant grievances, noble exactions, 1649 XXIV The Supplication of the Clergy, Burghers and Peasants concerning the recovery of crown lands. Delivered to Queen Christina at the Diet of 1650 XXV Peasant grievances refuted, 1649-50 XXVI Karl X Gustav’s Reduction, 1655 XXVII Social strains within the Nobility, 1660 XXVIII Gustav Bonde’s political programme, 1661 XXIX The Reduction, 1680 XXX The origins of the Reduction, as seen by a victim C Foreign Affairs XXXI Gustav Adolf on the Peace of Stolbovo, 1617 XXXII The Treaty of Bärwalde, 13 January (O.S.) 1631 XXXIII Gustav Adolf and Germany, 1630-2 XXXIV The League of Heilbronn, 13 April 1633 XXXV-XXXVI Defeatism and Disengagement, 1635-6 XXXV Defeatism, 1635 XXXVI The Problem of Disengagement XXXVII Denmark and Germany, 1643 XXXVIII Christina and the Negotiations at Westphalia, 1647 XXXIX Karl X Gustav and the Eastern Crisis, 1654 XL Karl Gustav’s designs on Denmark, 1658 XLI Gustaf Bonde on the need for peace, 1661 XLII Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie’s defence of his foreign policy, 1678 XLIII Foreign policy: new style, 1686