The Queen Who Was Crowned King
Not Just the Tudors
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Sweden in the Seventeenth Century
Sweden of the seventeenth century had gone from a very small country up in the edges of europe and the cold north to become one of the major power players. The swedish monarchy was quite young, only about a hundred years, and it has been the same family line for all the time. It was protestant, and that was why the great fires war was fought. And christine as fader king. So there was a very fixed idea on what position in society you had, if you were a woman or a man, or if you were high born or a farmer, and so on. You were supposed to stay at your position. People were supposed to be able
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