Protagonists of History in International Perspective - 5: Christian IV: Rex Splendens and Rex Humilis
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Ohne Schutzumschlag; Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. Christian IV, king of Denmark and Norway, was a notable political figure in the early seventeenth century, recognized for his cultural and entrepreneurial endeavors. A prolific builder, he established several new cities and gained an international reputation as a patron of the arts. His early reign was marked by military and political successes, enhancing his international standing. However, in his later years, he faced personal betrayal through his wife's infidelity and suffered humiliating military defeats, contributing to the decline of Danish power and widespread suffering among his people. Despite these challenges, his injuries from the naval battle at Kolberger Heide elevated him to national hero status. He perceived his transformation from a splendid king to a humbled one as a divinely imposed martyrdom, a view that resonated particularly with bourgeois circles critical of the nobility, who saw him as a ruler thwarted by self-serving elites. This book features historians from six countries who delve into Christian IV's perspectives and his political and cultural contributions within a European context, revealing the complexities of a paradoxical figure whose quest for prestige often led to misguided illusions. His enduring architectural legacies reflect both his personal ambitions and the broader cultural trends of early seventeenth-century Europe.…
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- Title
- Protagonists of History in International Perspective - 5: Christian IV: Rex Splendens and Rex Humilis
- Author
- Rolof van Hövell tot Westerflier
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- Karwansaray BV
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- 2024
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- ISBN 10
- 9490258229
- ISBN 13
- 9789490258221
As a young king he enjoyed military and political success and acquired a considerable international position. As an old king he was deeply hurt, on a private level, by his wife’s infidelity, and also had to face humiliating defeats that strongly contributed to the decline of Danish power and led to great suffering for his peoples. His wounds received at the naval battle at Kolberger Heide, however, made him a national hero despite the political and military disasters. In his personal letters and in his artistic self-staging we see that the king himself interpreted the transformation from rex splendens to rex humilis as divinely imposed martyrdom – a concept that had an enormous impact: especially in bourgeois circles hostile to the nobility, Christian IV was viewed as a king whose right intentions were thwarted by a selfish nobility who put their own economic and social interests above those of the nation.
In this book, historians from six different countries go beyond traditional myths by examining Christian IV’s views and political and cultural activities in a European context; thus underscoring the complexity of a paradoxical and contradictory person whose need for prestige, despite his intelligence and vast knowledge, often created disastrous illusions. His significant buildings and urban structures remain witnesses of his personal ambitions and of the cultural trends of early seventeenth-century Europe in general.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Steffen Heiberg
Background and Education
1 - Christian IV: A Paradoxical and Contradictory Character
Steffen Heiberg
2 - ‘My dear Preceptor’: The Education of a European Renaissance Prince
Bent Christensen and Christian Gorm Tortzen
Denmark during the Reign of Christian IV
3 - Centre and Periphery: The Structure of a Composite and Multi-Ethnic European State
Øystein Rian
4 - The Age of Orthodoxy: Lutheranism and National Identity
Martin Schwarz Lausten
5 - Pioneer of Mercantilism: Christian IV and the Seventeenth-Century World of Commerce
Søren Mentz
6 - Science and the World of Learning in the Age of Christian IV
Morten Fink-Jensen
War and Peace
7 - The Warrior King, the Military State, and Society
Gunner Lind
8 - King Neptune: Christian IV and His Navy
Martin Bellamy
9 - The Struggle for the Baltic, 1588-1624
Paul D. Lockhart
10 - Christian IV, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire German and Imperial Perspectives
Michael North
11 - The Great Decline: The Thirty Years’ War and the Loss of Danish Leadership in the Nordic Countries, 1625-48
Knud J.V. Jespersen
Court Culture
12 - Danish Court Culture during the Reign of Christian IV
Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen
13 - Christian IV’s Extended Family: Women and Children at the Royal Court
Juliette Roding
14 - Tradition, Ceremony, and Innovation: Royal Travel and the Building of Frederiksborg and Rosenborg Patrick Kragelund
15 - Christian IV: The Visual Arts and Royal Self-Staging Juliette Roding
16 - Riches Enhance Reputation: The Collections of Christian IV
Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen
17 - Jacob van Doordt: Painter and ‘Image-Maker’ to the King Elsabeth Alicia Dikkes
18 - Music and Ceremony at the Court of Christian IV Ole Kongsted
Christian IV: The Man and His Myth
19 - The Final Years Steffen Heiberg
20 - Construction and Deconstruction of a National Hero: Christian IV and Posterity Steffen Heiberg
Appendix to Chapter 2
General Bibliography
Reference Notes
Index of Persons
Index of Places
Editors & Contributors
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About the Author
Juliette Roding (1953), one of the editors of the present volume, recently retired from Leiden University, where she was senior lecturer in art and architectural history. She earned her Ph.D. in architectural history in 1991 at Radboud University in Nijmegen. Her research focuses on the cultural interactions between the Netherlands and the North and Baltic Sea areas in the period 1550-1800. Her publications include: Christiaan IV van Denemarken (1588-1648). Architectuur en stedenbouw van een Luthers vorst (1991); Pieter Isaacsz (1568-1625): Court Painter, Art Dealer and Spy (co-editor, with Badeloch Noldus, 2007); Karel van Mander. A Dynasty of Artists (co-editor, with Thomas Lyngby a.o, 2020); and Karel van Mander III. Library and Oeuvre (idem, 2020) (Studies from The Museum of National History at Frederiksborg, vols. 3 and 4). Since 2014 she has been guest editor of the Gerson Digital Project (chapters Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Finland) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD).
Margriet Lacy-Bruijn (1943) is a native of the Netherlands but has spent most of her adult life in the United States. After studying at the Sorbonne and the University of Strasbourg and after earning degrees in French literature and lingustics at the University of Amsterdam, she completed her PhD in French literature at the university of Kansas in 1972. In addition to her work on the 18th-century French novel, she has published widely on Belle van Zuylen/Madame de Charrière. She was professor of French, dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, and associate vice president for instruction at North Dakota State University before holding similar positions at Butler University, where she retired in 2004.
Rolof van Hövell tot Westerflier earned a LLM degree and a MA degree from the University of Leiden. He also received a degree in comparative law (MCL) from Columbia University. He has spent the last forty years practicing law in The Netherlands Antilles, Rotterdam and Jakarta. Driven by his lifelong passion for history, he founded Karwansaray Publishers in 2007, a company dedicated to promoting and sharing a multi-faceted view of history that crosses cultural and political boundaries.
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