Apotheosis of the North
Subtitle: The Swedish Appropriation of Classical Antiquity Around the Baltic Sea and Beyond
Publisher: de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Published: 2017
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9783110523171
Subjects: Scandinavia, antiquities
Description: This volume sheds new light on the formative phase of Scandinavian scholarship shaped by Olof Rudbeck's baroque history of the world, 'Atlantica' (4 vols, 1679-1702). Through essays on Neo-Latin poetry, Norse texts and translations, mythology, botany, zoology, linguistics and oriental studies, it maps out the multiple dimensions united in 'Rudbeckianism' and outlines its hitherto overlooked impact on European intellectual history.