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Wolf Mass
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orig: Susimessu
Wolf Mass depicts the 1590s civil war in Sweden and Finland. Lappalainen taps into the Finns’ natural interest in the Club War (also Cudgel War, Finnish Nuijasota), which was a 1596 peasant uprising, located within the kingdom of Sweden in what is today Finland, against their exploitation at the hands of the nobility and military. Lappalainen looks at the events within the wider context of the kingdom of Sweden, Northern Europe, and of the Catholic Church. The unrest that occurred between the reign of Gustav I, later known as Gustav Vasa, and that of his grandson, Gustav II Adolf, is presented in a whole new light. Wolf Mass includes consideration of the period’s leaders, its nobility, popular nationalism, luckless battles, and the power struggles between Rome and the Lutheran church. Much has already been written about the sons of Gustav Vasa (Eric XIV, John III and Charles IX), as well as about Sigismund (the son of John III), Baron Clas Eriksson Fleming (in Finnish Klaus Fleming) and Jaakko Ilkka (a Finnish peasant leader of the 1596 Club War uprising), but Lappalainen manages to expand the context of these events, and delves deeper into the personality of each of these historical characters. Whilst doing this, she also manages to shed light on this chaotic period of history. |
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