Main group 1

• Ailes, Mary Elizabeth, Wars, widows, and state formation in 17th-century Sweden, Part of: Scandinavian journal of history, 2006(31):1, s. 17-34Compulsory*
• Alm, M, Royalty, Legitimacy and Imagery: The struggles for legitimacy of Gustavian absolutism, 1772-1809, Part of: Scandinavian journal of history, 2003Compulsory*
• Braddick, M.J., "The Early Modern English State and the Question of Differentation, from 1550 to 1700": Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1996Compulsory*
• Burke, Peter, State-making, king-making and image-making from Renaissance to Baroque: Scandinavia in a European context, Part of: Scandinavian journal of history, 1997 (22), s. [1]-8Compulsory*
• Cohn, S K, Varieties of Revolt, Part of: Lust for liberty: the politics of social revolt in medieval Europe, 1200-1425: Italy, France, and Flanders, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2006Compulsory*
• Glete, Jan, War and the state in early modern Europe: Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden as fiscal-military states, 1500-1600, London, Routledge, 2002Compulsory*
• Ijäs, M; Uusitalo, L, Early modern state formation in the margins?: A review of early modern popular politics and limited royal power in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Spanish colonial empire, Part of: Res publica redefined?: the Polish-Lithuanian transition period of the 1560s and 1570s in the context of European state formation processes, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang Edition, cop. 2016Compulsory*
• Knoppers, Laura Lunger., Constructing Cromwell: ceremony, portrait, and print, 1645-1661, Cambridge, U.K., Cambridge University Press, 2000Compulsory*
• Markoff, J, Contexts and Forms of Rural Revolt: France in 1789, Part of: The journal of conflict resolution.Compulsory*
• Monter, W, Europe´s Female Sovereigns, 1300-1800: An Overview, Part of: The rise of female kings in Europe, 1300-1800, New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 2012Compulsory*
• Olden-Jørgensen, Sebastian, "The "Coronations" of Charles XII (1697), Frederick IV (1700) and Frederick III/I (1701), in Scandinavian Journal of History, 2003Compulsory*
• Strunk, C, The "two bodies" of female Sovereign: Awkward hierarchies in images of Empress Maria Theresia, Catherine the Great of Russia and their male consorts, Part of: Queens consort, cultural transfer and European politics, c. 1500-1800, London, Routledge, 2017Compulsory*
• Te Brake, Wayne Ph., Shaping history: ordinary people in European politics, 1500-1700, Berkeley, Calif., Univ. of California Press, cop. 1998Compulsory*
• Tilly, Charles, "War making and state making as organized crime", in Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer & Theda Skocpol (eds), Bringing the state back in, Cambridge, 1985Compulsory*

Later editions of the books listed may be used.

Literature comprises of approximately 1.000 pages.

* Compulsory