Apotheosis of the North

The Swedish Appropriation of Classical Antiquity around the Baltic Sea and Beyond (1650 to 1800)
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-11-052317-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 616 g

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Despite its enormous extent and impact, the Swedish scholarship produced in the context of Olof Rudbeck's monumental 'Atlantica' (4 vols, 1679-1702) has hitherto escaped attention outside Scandinavia. The present volume explores the numerous disciplines that comprised this, one of the last, but grandest appropriations of the classical heritage in early modern times. In the decades around 1700, dozens of scholars all around the Baltic Sea embarked on studies of classical and Norse mythology, material remains and antiquities, of languages, botany and zoology as well as biblical scholarship, in order to reveal the primordial status of ancient Sweden. Fusing together numerous disciplines within Rudbeck's elaborate and all-encompassing epistemological framework, they gave to a nation that had advanced to the rank of a European superpower a narrative of a glorious past that matched its contemporary pretentions. Presenting case studies stretching from the 17th to the 19th century and across a wide number of fields, this volume traces the extent and of one of the most fascinating and underestimated episodes in European intellectual history.

Zielgruppe

Historians, Comparative linguists, Classical Philologists, Neo-La

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roling, Bernd

Bauhaus, Stefan Heinrich

Schirg, Bernhard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Bernd Roling, Bernhard Schirg und Stefan Heinrich Bauhaus, Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland.

Bernd Roling, Bernhard Schirg and Stefan Heinrich Bauhaus, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.