Apotheosis of the North: The Swedish Appropriation of Classical Antiquity around the Baltic Sea and Beyond (1650 to 1800)

Published by De Gruyter 2017

Apotheosis of the North

The Swedish Appropriation of Classical Antiquity around the Baltic Sea and Beyond (1650 to 1800)

Edited by: Bernd Roling , Bernhard Schirg and Stefan Heinrich Bauhaus

Volume 48 in the series Transformationen der Antike

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110524888

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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 longue durée of one of the most fascinating and underestimated episodes in European intellectual history.

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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Bernd Roling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Phoenix going Bananas. The Swedish Appropriation of a Classical Myth, and its Demise in Botanical Scholarship (Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Linnaeus) Bernhard Schirg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Olof Rudbeck the Younger’s Oförgripelige tankar om amerikanska språket Stefan Heinrich Bauhaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Petrus Lagerlöf Instructing on Gothicism Peter Sjökvist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Language Comparison before Comparative Linguistics: Theories of Language Change and Classification in Olof Rudbeck’s Atlantica Annie Burman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
»Musta minä muiden nähden / walkia oman emännän, id est niger ego aliis, candidus propriae uxori videor«. Daniel Juslenius zur finnischen Kulturgeschichte Outi Merisalo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
She »lät illa i sömnen«!? How Eric Julius Biörner can still be read with profit – and even delight Vera Johanterwage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Ablaze in the Northern Sky Tears of Amber and the Relocation of Ovidian Myth to the Baltic Sea Christian Peters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Goths, Gauls and Franks in Antoine Garissoles’ Adolphid (1649): How to rewrite the ancient history of Sweden Sofia Guthrie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
The Fauna of Fallen Babylon – Carl Aurivillius on the Animals in Isaiah 13:21 and the Task of Bible Hermeneutics Benjamin Hübbe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Rudbeck and Oriental Studies: How Sanscrit studies transformed national myth Bernd Roling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Historians, Comparative linguists, Classical Philologists, Neo-Latinists, Scandinavists, Orientalists
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 248
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 12
Keywords: Antiquarianism; Neo-Latin; Comparative Linguistics; Scandinavian Studies

eBook

Published: May 8, 2017
ISBN: 9783110524888

Hardcover

Published: May 8, 2017
ISBN: 9783110523171