Hello All!
I am currently in the process of writing a longer piece on the religious schism between Orthodox Lutheranism and Phillipism/Crypto-Calvinism (I've seen it referred to as both - I specifically mean the religious beliefs of Phillip Melancthon and his followers) during the renaissance.
I've had a hard time finding any (English or Danish, the two languages I can read confidently) sources specifically on this topic and I was hoping that the Sages of the Subreddit could provide some guidance as to where I should search and who/what for?
The topic of my text will be the establishment of the supremacy of Orthodox Lutheranism in Denmark in the period between 1534 ( plus a bit earlier to include Luthers reformation) to around 1613, and the general feud between science/religion and faith/reason.
I hope this question falls within the established rules.
Happy Easter.
I assume you've already checked Martin Schwarz Lausten's A Church History of Denmark, trans. Frederick H. Cryer, Aldershort, 2002 (now London: Routledge) or its original to get some basic information.
Lausten juxtaposes (in addition to Peder Palladius (d. 1560)) Nils Hemmingsen (d. 1600) and Hans Poulsen Resen (d. 1638) to represent the changing trend of the the relationship between the state and the church as well as the mainstream of theology. All of them also had a professorship in the university of Copenhagen, so you can check books and articles featuring them, or the intellectual networks in contemporary northern Europe in which they also played a pivotal role via, for example, https://bibliotek.dk/ (in Danish) by browsing tags. Ah, Lausten also apparently publishes the monograph on Hemmingsen, titled as Niels Hemmingsen: storhed og fald (2013).
Another classic collection of the essays on the Scandinavian Reformation, Ole Grell (ed.), The Scandinavian Reformation: From Evangelical Movement to Institutionalisation of Reform, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994, might also be useful as a departure point for your research.
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The standard biography of Frederik II, Poul Grinder-Hansen, Frederik 2. Danmarks renæssancekonge, København: Gyldendal, 2013, mainly cites Hal Koch & Bjørn Kornerup (red.), Den danske Kirkes historie, bd. 4, København, 1959, ss. 135-220 (Filippismens Magtperiode). He seems also to refer to Paul D. Lockhart, Frederik II and the Protestant Cause: Denmark's Roles in the Wars of Religion 1559-1596, Leiden: Brill, 2004,, the only Anglophone biography on Frederik II., as well.
Anyway, Koch's multi-volume Church history of Denmark series (in Danish) is a classic of the field before Lautsen's single-volume one, so it is probably not so a bad idea to check through it together with its notes and further reading section.
(Added): Alternatively, the Renaissance study in Denmark has seen a considerable recent published literature in the 21th century. Danmark og renæssancen 1500-1650 (2006) (linked to the review article in Danish by Laas Bisgaard) is a collection of (introductory) essays in Danish representing this trend of research, and some articles on the Reformation are also included in the collection.