num_pages: 312
description: The reading public outside Sweden knows little of that country's history, beyond the era in the seventeenth century when Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus became a major European power by her intervention in the Thirty Years' War. In the last decades of the seventeenth century another Swedish king, Charles XI, launched a less dramatic but remarkable bid to stabilize and secure Sweden's position as a major power in northern Europe and as master of the Baltic Sea. This book gives an account of what was achieved under the absolutist direction of a distinctly unglamorous, but pious and conscientious ruler.
language: English
title: Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660-1697
titlecomplete: Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660-1697
characters: Charles XI of Sweden
ratings_count: 2
series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
publisher: Cambridge University Press