Article: Rome and the Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia, vols. 3-4.

Oskar Garstein. Vol. 3, Jesuit Educational Strategy, 1553-1622; Vol. 4, The Age of Gustavus Adolphus and Queen Christina of Sweden, 1622-1656. Studies in the History of Christian Thought 46-47. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992. Vol. 3, pp. iii + 462. Vol. 4, pp, xviii + 833.

The Counter-Reformation effort to bring the Scandinavian North back into the Catholic fold was spearheaded by the Jesuits, who actively recruited Scandinavian students, some of whom returned to their homelands to assist with missionary efforts that were directed primarily at recusant families, at disaffected nobles, and especially at the ruling courts. But who were these Nordic agents? How and where were ...

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