Praises of Towns and Provinces at the Academy of Turku in the Seventeenth Century

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Hypothesis Islandica, or Concerning the initially supportive but ultimately subversive impact of the rediscovery of medieval Icelandic literature on the evaluation of Saxo Grammaticus as a historical authority during the heyday of Danish antiquarianism 13
6. Praises of Towns and Provinces at the Academy of Turku in the Seventeenth Century 61
7. Antiquarianism without Antiques. Topographical Evidence and the Formation of the Past 81
8. Spirit of the Age. Erik Dahlbergh’s Images of Sweden’s Past 103
9. Antiquarianism, politics, and self-fashioning in Magnus Rönnow’s poem Scanicae Runae cum Ense Thorsiöensi (1716) 129
10. The Northern Face of January. Roman narratives of early cultural history (Janus, Saturn, Numa) and their appropriation in Swedish antiquarianism 151
11. Søren Abildgaard – a Patriotic Antiquarian Draftsman from Eighteenth-century Denmark 179
12. Etymologized space: Olof Rudbeck the Elder and the Phrygian language 203
13. De usu diversitatis linguarum. Linguistic past (and present) in the dissertations supervised by Carl Abraham Clewberg (1712–1765) at the Academia Aboensis 217
14. Trapped and Lost in Translation – The Moose in Early Modern Zoology and Biblical Philology in Northern and East-Central Europe 229
15. Hyperboreans in Tibet: Transformations of the Atlantica of Olaus Rudbeck in the eighteenth and nineteenth century 263
16. Index of Names 281