Lavery Jason. Germany's Northern Challenge: The Holy Roman Empire and the Scandinavian Struggle for Baltic, 1563-1576

Brill, 2002. — 182 p.Shortly after the Augsburg peace settlement of 1555, from 1563 to 1576, the Holy Roman Empire was threatened by the rivalry between Denmark and Sweden. This book examines the empire's reaction to a foreign crisis, the Seven Years' War of the North, and the connections between foreign policy and internal imperial politics. This study highlights the empire's internal organization and politics by introducing the concepts of initiative and consensus.