Boreas rising: Antiquarianism and national narratives in 17th- and 18th-century Scandinavia

Published by De Gruyter 2019

Boreas rising

Antiquarianism and national narratives in 17th- and 18th-century Scandinavia

Edited by: Bernd Roling and Bernhard Schirg

Volume 53 in the series Transformationen der Antike

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110638042

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About this book

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.

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Bernd Roling, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Bernhard Schirg, Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Bernd Roling and Bernhard Schirg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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 Gottskálk Jensson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Praises of Towns and Provinces at the Academy of Turku in the Seventeenth Century Raija Sarasti-Wilenius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Antiquarianism without Antiques. Topographical Evidence and the Formation of the Past Kristoffer Neville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Spirit of the Age. Erik Dahlbergh’s Images of Sweden’s Past Jonas Nordin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Antiquarianism, politics, and self-fashioning in Magnus Rönnow’s poem Scanicae Runae cum Ense Thorsiöensi (1716) Elena Dahlberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
The Northern Face of January. Roman narratives of early cultural history (Janus, Saturn, Numa) and their appropriation in Swedish antiquarianism Bernhard Schirg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Søren Abildgaard – a Patriotic Antiquarian Draftsman from Eighteenth-century Denmark Poul Grinder-Hansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Etymologized space: Olof Rudbeck the Elder and the Phrygian language Stefan Heinrich Bauhaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
De usu diversitatis linguarum. Linguistic past (and present) in the dissertations supervised by Carl Abraham Clewberg (1712–1765) at the Academia Aboensis Outi Merisalo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Trapped and Lost in Translation – The Moose in Early Modern Zoology and Biblical Philology in Northern and East-Central Europe Benjamin Hübbe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Hyperboreans in Tibet: Transformations of the Atlantica of Olaus Rudbeck in the eighteenth and nineteenth century Bernd Roling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Comparative Linguistics, Classical Studies, Scandinavian Studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 284
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 34
- Coloured Illustrations: 18
Keywords: Antiquarianism; Neo-Latin; Comparative Linguistics; Scandinavian Studies

eBook

Published: July 8, 2019
ISBN: 9783110638042

Hardcover

Published: July 8, 2019
ISBN: 9783110632453