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 dur'e of one of the most fascinating and underestimated episodes in European intellectual history.
Автор: Bernard Walter a. Название: MR Bernard`s Saint Bernard ISBN: 0692464360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692464366 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Berners Juliana Название: A Treatise of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle (Classic Reprint) ISBN: 0266858171 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780266858171 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 22710.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Excerpt from A Treatise of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle Treatife more than to any other belongs the credit of having affigned in popular eftimation to the angler his meditative and gentle nature. Many pure and noble intelle ts have kindled into lafting'devotion to angling on reading her eloquent commendation of it. Such men as Donne, Wotton, and Herbert, Paley, Bell, and Davy, together with many another excellent and fimple difpofition, have caught enthu fiafrn from her lofty fentiments, and found that not their bodily health only, but alfo their morals, were improved by angling. It became a fchool of virtues, a quiet paftime in which, while looking into their own hearts, they learnt lefi'ons of the higheft wifdom, reverence, refignation, and love love of their fellow-men, of the lower creatures, and of their. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
