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Gustavus Adolphus, Circulation, and Liberty as a Heroic Virtue

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Shortly after the death of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden and Protestant hero of the Thirty Years’ War, an anonymous poet in England noted the multilingual character of the accounts of his heroic campaign

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Chovanec, K. (2020). Gustavus Adolphus, Circulation, and Liberty as a Heroic Virtue. In: Pan-Protestant Heroism in Early Modern Europe. Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40705-6_5

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