Cudgel War: and the Making of Early Modern Finland

The Cudgel War: and the Making of Early Modern Finland In November 1596, in the churchyard of a Finnish parish on Saint Catherine's Day, a district bailiff died and a rebellion began. The Cudgel War, named for the spiked wooden clubs that Finnish yeomen fashioned because bladed weapons could not penetrate the plate armour of their enemies, lasted three months, consumed three thousand lives, and le...