Call for papers – Provincial cities in the Swedish Empire

During the Swedish expansion into the Baltic Sea region, different provinces and a number of influential cities were conquered. It was not always easy for the cities to come to terms with this Swedish rule. On the contrary, cities often had to engage in intense negotiations, costly and frustrating, in order to promote their interests. Furthermore, these negotiations regularly asked the cities to send some kind of diplomatic missions to Stockholm or even to organize more or less permanent correspondents in the capital. Being part of Sweden in its role as European military power had it’s benefits and difficulties.
The workshop aims to discuss the position of provincial cities during the Swedish reign. It wants to research these conflicts from the perspective of the cities themselves, not least, because both these cities and the provinces are not regularly treated as a part of the Swedish history.
We are looking forward to presentations from urban historians who deal with the cities in the Swedish Baltic Sea region, and their relationship with the Crown.

Heiko Droste
Stade, Germany, Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv
Cities in the Swedish provinces 1560–1810. Negotiations between centre and periphery
2026-08-27
2025-09-30
Heiko Droste - Beate-Christine Fiedler - Lukas Weichert

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