A State of Aggression? Swedish Peasant Elites and the Art of Bargaining During the Nordic Seven Years’ War (1563–70)

Abstract

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The introduction is written by Mats Hallenberg and Johan Holm. It holds relevance both for Mats Hallenberg’s chapter on the interaction between the peasantry and the state during the Nordic Seven Years’ War and for Johan Holm’s contribution on the political uprisings of seventeenth-century Sweden. Both chapters address political strategies amongst freeholding peasants and the rural poor. Mats Hallenberg deals with the peasant elites and their conflict with the Vasa regime during the Nordic Seven Years’ War; while Johan Holm focuses on the diminishing legacy of the uprising as a political strategy during the early seventeenth century.