Manliness, dedication and loyalty [Elektronisk resurs] Military Masculinity and Peasant Soldiers in Sixteenth-Century Sweden

• This essay analyze military masculinity in Sweden during the Early Vasa period, c. 1560 – 1590. Masculine notions of violence and domination were essential both for the ruling Vasa dynasty and for the soldiers that filled the ranks of the domestic army. The investigation explores royal propaganda, the military experiences of peasant soldiers as well as protests and grievances from those who came back from war. The development will be analysed as a struggle for hegemony, while the military ideals that had traditionally been reserved for noble warriors was successfully appropriated by commoners, now sanctioned by the monarch. 

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Humanities and the Arts  (hsv)

Humaniora och konst  (hsv)

historia  (su)

History  (su)

Genre

government publication  (marcgt)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

masculinities

manhood

military history

early modern Sweden

Vasa dynasty

Russo-Swedish war

peasantry

militia

ideology

maskuliniteter

manlighet

militärhistoria

tidigmoderna Sverige

Vasadynastin

Nordiska 25-årskriget

bönder

uppbåd

ideologi