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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.

Apotheosis --- Deification --- Ancestor worship --- Religion --- Euhemerism --- Heroes --- Comparative studies --- Rudbeck, Olof, --- Sweden --- Scandinavia. --- Sweden. --- Intellectual life --- Rudbeck, Olaus, --- Rudbeckius, Olaus, --- Kingdom of Sweden --- Konungariket Sverige --- Schweden --- Shvet͡sii͡ --- Suecia --- Suède --- Suwēden --- Sverige --- Svezia --- Szwecja --- Zviedrija --- Zweden --- Fennoscandia --- Norden --- Nordic countries --- Shvet︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- スウェーデン --- Antiquarianism. --- Comparative Linguistics. --- Neo-Latin. --- Scandinavian Studies.

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This collection of essays examines how the paratextual apparatus of medieval manuscripts both inscribes and expresses power relations between the producers and consumers of knowledge in this important period of intellectual history. It seeks to define which paratextual features - annotations, commentaries, corrections, glosses, images, prologues, rubrics, and titles - are common to manuscripts from different branches of medieval knowledge and how they function in any particular discipline. It reveals how these visual expressions of power that organize and compile thought on the written page are consciously applied, negotiated or resisted by authors, scribes, artists, patrons and readers. This collection, which brings together scholars from the history of the book, law, science, medicine, literature, art, philosophy and music, interrogates the role played by paratexts in establishing authority, constructing bodies of knowledge, promoting education, shaping reader response, and preserving or subverting tradition in medieval manuscript culture.

091.14 --- 82.08 --- 091.14:655.26 --- Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria-:-Typografie. Grafisch ontwerp en lay-out --- 82.08 Literaire activiteiten. Literaire technieken --- Literaire activiteiten. Literaire technieken --- 091.14 Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria --- Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria --- E-books --- Paratext --- Manuscripts, Medieval. --- History --- Geistesgeschichte. --- Intellectual History. --- Macht. --- Manuskript. --- Medieval Manuscripts. --- Mittelalter. --- Paratext. --- Power. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- Paratext - History - To 1500. --- To 1500