Apotheosis of the North
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, ...
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, ...