The power of antiquity:the Hyperborean research tradition in early modern Swedish research on national antiquity
Abstract My thesis focuses on the incorporation of Hyperboreans, a mythical classical race, into the prevailing Gothic or Geatic narrative of national history in seventeenth and eighteenth century Swedish historiography. The beatific Hyperboreans were identified with ancient Swedes to emphasise tha...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Oulun yliopisto
2015
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| Online Access: | http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526207148 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:9789526207148 |