Apotheosis of the North
An edition of Apotheosis of the North (2017)
The Swedish Appropriation of Classical Antiquity Around the Baltic Sea and Beyond
By Bernd Roling,Bernhard Schirg,Stefan Heinrich Bauhaus
Publish Date
2017
Publisher
de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Language
eng
Pages
256
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.