Piotr Nater
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Part one of the Counter Reformation in Scandinavia and Poland by Martin Philipson from the History of All Nations from Earliest Times Volume twelve The Religious Wars translated under the supervision of John Henry Wright.
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Read by Piotr Nater.
The reform movement had swept like a rushing flood over all the nations of the West, and it seemed for a while as if nothing could withstand its course.
But in the midst of the long, stagnant waters of the old faith, there arose a counter current which grew more and more rapid and powerful, until it met the other with strength equal to its own.
The struggle which resulted fills the history of the latter half of the sixteenth century.
It required a mighty and costly contest before two hostile elements, neither of which could subdue the other, suddenly gave up the effort and took each its separate course.
In august fifteen sixty, Gustavus Vaza, the founder of Sweden's greatness and of its Protestantism, was succeeded on the throne by his eldest son, Eric XV.
The new king was a dignified man, twenty six years of age, and a good orator, poet, musician, painter, and linguist, who
But all these advantages that would have adorned a private gentleman, did not make him a good ruler.
He lacked discretion, and was now passionate and impulsive, and then weak and discouraged, without strength or steadiness of resolution.
Gustavus had observed this disposition of his eldest born with profound concern.
But the measures to which he had resorted to correct the evil had only made it worse.
He had assigned to each of his younger sons a separate duchy, to John, Finland, to Magnus, East Gotland, to Charles, Sudmanland, to
These districts held ambiguous relations to the crown.
In internal affairs they were independent of the king, but in general they were still subject to him and to the diet.
These uncertain conditions inevitably led to conflicts between Eric and his younger brothers, and
The prospect of this was doubly discouraging at a time when the peace of the realm was at best precarious, divided as it was between the still numerous and devoted adherents of Catholicism and the imperfectly organized Protestants.
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