Kingship and State Formation in Sweden 1130-1290: 27 (The Northern World) - Hardcover

"sein Verdienst liegt ... in einer kritischen Prufung einschlagiger Forschungen und Theorien. Weil [der Autor] dabei ebenso kenntnisreich wie besonnen vorgeht...ist man nach der Lekture jedes Kapitels doch etwas kluger geworden...Man wird kunftig gut daran tun, bei jeder Beschaftigung mit einem Thema, das irgendwie mit dem Gegenstand des vorliegenden Buchs zu tun hat, nachzuschlagen, was der Autor dazu zu sagen hat" Roman Deutinger, Deutsches Archiv fur Erforschung des Mittelalters, 65,1 (2009), 426-27

Kingship and State Formation in Sweden covers, for the first time in English, a key period in the consolidation of the Swedish state. The book begins with an overview of Sweden prior to the twelfth century and a reign-by-reign history of the period 1130-1290. Thereafter issues related to kingship and state formation are treated thematically, with sections on royal administration and taxation, legal and military institutions, relations between king and Church, the development of Christian kingship ideology and expansion into Finland. Extensive appendices are included on the genealogy and landholdings of powerful families and on fortifications. The book is well furnished with over forty maps and genealogical tables. Developments in Sweden are placed firmly within their European context, and the volume will be of interest to all those with an interest in medieval politics in general as well as to students of early Swedish or Scandinavian history. Unfortunately we have to include this errata.