Inhalt: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction / Roling, Bernd / Schirg, Bernhard -- Hypothesis Islandica, or Concerning the initially supportive but ultimately subversive impact of the rediscovery of medieval Icelandic literature on the evaluation of Saxo Grammaticus as a historical authority during the heyday of Danish antiquarianism / Jensson, Gottskálk -- Praises of Towns and Provinces at the Academy of Turku in the Seventeenth Century / Sarasti-Wilenius, Raija -- Antiquarianism without Antiques. Topographical Evidence and the Formation of the Past / Neville, Kristoffer -- Spirit of the Age. Erik Dahlbergh's Images of Sweden's Past / Nordin, Jonas -- Antiquarianism, politics, and self-fashioning in Magnus Rönnow's poem Scanicae Runae cum Ense Thorsiöensi (1716) / Dahlberg, Elena -- The Northern Face of January. Roman narratives of early cultural history (Janus, Saturn, Numa) and their appropriation in Swedish antiquarianism / Schirg, Bernhard -- Søren Abildgaard - a Patriotic Antiquarian Draftsman from Eighteenth-century Denmark / Grinder-Hansen, Poul -- Etymologized space: Olof Rudbeck the Elder and the Phrygian language / Bauhaus, Stefan Heinrich -- De usu diversitatis linguarum. Linguistic past (and present) in the dissertations supervised by Carl Abraham Clewberg (1712-1765) at the Academia Aboensis / Merisalo, Outi -- Trapped and Lost in Translation - The Moose in Early Modern Zoology and Biblical Philology in Northern and East-Central Europe / Hübbe, Benjamin -- Hyperboreans in Tibet: Transformations of the Atlantica of Olaus Rudbeck in the eighteenth and nineteenth century / Roling, Bernd -- Index of Names For a long time studies on northern antiquarianism have focused on individual nations. This volume introduces this phenomenon in a transnational perspective. In the course of the 17th and 18th centuries, the Baltic Sea was at the centre of a culture of debate, whose networks encompassed numerous European centres of learning. When the countries around the Baltic began to explore their own antiquities in this period, the prevailing climate of competition between Sweden, Denmark, Russia and the German countries soon permeated the construction and presentation of their own pasts. Exploring the ancient literatures and monuments of Iceland, Sweden or Denmark, studying runic writings or the Sami tradition, the northern scholars were establishing an individual architecture of history, and so extending the horizon of their emerging nations both geographically and historically. The contributions in this volume provide case studies illustrating the role that scholarship, art and literature played in establishing and maintaining national claims around the Baltic Sea. The variety of methods combined for this purpose makes this book of interest to intellectual historians as well as historians of art and early modern science |
