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

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

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Transformationen der Antike
Release date:	May 2017
First published:	2017
Editors:	Bernd Roling • Bernhard Schirg • Stefan Heinrich Bauhaus
Dimensions:	240 x 170mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-052317-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	3-11-052317-5
Barcode:	9783110523171

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