IntroductionSteffen HeibergBackground and Education1 - Christian IV: A Paradoxical and Contradictory CharacterSteffen Heiberg2 - 'My dear Preceptor': The Education of a European Renaissance PrinceBent Christensen and Christian Gorm TortzenDenmark during the Reign of Christian IV3 - Centre and Periphery: The Structure of a Composite and Multi-Ethnic European StateØystein Rian4 - The Age of Orthodoxy: Lutheranism and National IdentityMartin Schwarz Lausten5 - Pioneer of Mercantilism: Christian IV and the Seventeenth-Century World of CommerceSøren Mentz6 - Science and the World of Learning in the Age of Christian IVMorten Fink-JensenWar and Peace7 - The Warrior King, the Military State, and SocietyGunner Lind8 - King Neptune: Christian IV and His NavyMartin Bellamy9 - The Struggle for the Baltic, 1588-1624Paul D. Lockhart10 - Christian IV, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire German and Imperial PerspectivesMichael North11 - The Great Decline: The Thirty Years' War and the Loss of Danish Leadership in the Nordic Countries, 1625-48Knud J.V. JespersenCourt Culture12 - Danish Court Culture during the Reign of Christian IVSebastian Olden-Jørgensen13 - Christian IV's Extended Family: Women and Children at the Royal CourtJuliette Roding14 - Tradition, Ceremony, and Innovation: Royal Travel and the Building of Frederiksborg and Rosenborg Patrick Kragelund15 - Christian IV: The Visual Arts and Royal Self-Staging Juliette Roding16 - Riches Enhance Reputation: The Collections of Christian IVMikael Bøgh Rasmussen17 - Jacob van Doordt: Painter and 'Image-Maker' to the King Elsabeth Alicia Dikkes18 - Music and Ceremony at the Court of Christian IV Ole KongstedChristian IV: The Man and His Myth19 - The Final Years Steffen Heiberg20 - Construction and Deconstruction of a National Hero: Christian IV and Posterity Steffen HeibergAppendix to Chapter 2General BibliographyReference NotesIndex of PersonsIndex of PlacesEditors & Contributors.