Apotheosis of the North

Bernd Roling

ISBN 10: 3110523175 / ISBN 13: 9783110523171

Published by De Gruyter, DE, 2017

About this Item

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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Apotheosis of the North
• Publisher: De Gruyter, DE
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110523175
• ISBN 13: 9783110523171
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 6.69W x 0.63H x 9.61D inches 6.69 inches width by 0.63 inches height by 9.61 inches depth
• Weight: 571 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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

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