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Title [sv]
Överhetens odödliga beröm. Rojalistisk hyllningslitteratur som politisk kommunikation i stormaktstidens svenska Östersjövälde
Title [en]
Panegyrics, Publicity and Political Communication within the Swedish Baltic Empire c. 1620-1740
Abstract [sv]
Syftet med projektet, som är flerdisciplinärt, är att undersöka hur den omfattande tryckta hyllningslitteratur som riktades till de svenska regenterna ca 1620–1720 fungerade som medium för politisk kommunikation inom det svenska Östersjöväldet. I den tidigmoderna periodens litterära system intog hyllningsskrifter till bröllop, begravningar och andra tillfällen en central plats, och de svenska kungligheterna uppvaktades under stormaktstiden med en stor mängd dikter och orationer i samband med dynastiska och politiska tilldragelser. Dessa producerades över hela riket, och i svenska bibliotek finns hyllningsskrifter till de svenska regenterna bevarade från hela Östersjöregionen. Språkligt präglades genren till en början starkt av latinet, men under periodens lopp blev svenska och tyska de dominerande språken. I forskningen har dessa skrifter – i den mån de har uppmärksammats – vanligen uppfattats som ett led i statens propagandaverksamhet. Skrifterna låter sig dock inte tolkas enbart som uttryck för de styrandes intressen, och i projektet vill vi studera hyllningsgenren som ett medium för politisk kommunikation mellan överhet och undersåtar: samtidigt som hyllningsskrifterna gjorde kungamakten närvarande på lokalplanet gav de författaren och den sociala grupp han representerade möjlighet att artikulera värden och normer gentemot de styrande. Särskilt vill vi fokusera hyllningarnas ambivalenta ställning mellan propaganda och folklig opinionsyttring och analysera hur de fyllde en förmedlande funktion mellan centrum och periferi i det svenska stormaktsväldet. Teoretiskt tar projektet avstamp bl.a. i Jürgen Habermas teori om det feodala samhällets representativa offentlighet, i retorikvetenskaplig diskussion om genus demonstrativum samt i historisk forskning om politisk kultur i 1600-talets Sverige. Projektet anknyter även till en internationellt livaktig forskning om maktlegitimering och politisk kommunikation, vars perspektiv vi vill tillämpa för att belysa villkoren för politiskt meningsskapande i Östersjöområdet under 16- och 1700-talen. I projektet medverkar Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre, professor i tyska vid Stockholms universitet, Nils Ekedahl, docent i retorik vid Södertörns högskola, Annika Ström, docent i latin vid Södertörns högskola, Nina Johansson, fil.dr. i tyska vid Stockholms universitet samt en doktorand i retorik vid Södertörns högskola. Projektledare är Nils Ekedahl.
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Ekblom, B. (2022). Härskarhyllning och påverkan: Panegyriken kring tronskiftet 1697 i det svenska Östersjöväldet. (Doctoral dissertation). Uppsala: Uppsala universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Härskarhyllning och påverkan: Panegyriken kring tronskiftet 1697 i det svenska Östersjöväldet
2022 (Swedish)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how Swedish-language printed panegyrics of Karl XI and Karl XII, written in connection with the 1697 royal succession, functioned as a channel for political communication in the Swedish Baltic empire. The material comprises 34 Swedish-language printed items from Sweden, Finland, and Swedish Pomerania. The analyses focus on features of both content and form in terms of commonly applied topics and characteristics typical of the genre. The analyses demonstrate how panegyrics surrounding the royal succession varied in regard to geographical origin, individual authors, choice of format, content, audience and presentational situation. To elucidate the variation within the genre, texts in octavo, folio and patent folio formats are analysed. The first analytical section of the thesis, chapter 3, contains analyses of texts in these formats as well as depictions of events in Stockholm in connection with the parliament and the funeral. Chapter 4 illuminates the components of the coronation tributes, and coronation homages to Karl XII are examined. Chapter 5 treats panegyrics from Sweden, outside the capital, and from Finland. Chapter 6 analyses some panegyric texts from the Baltic provinces and the German possessions, and the rhetorical staging of the royal succession is depicted in these areas as well. The texts analysed were part of the public sphere of the day, evincing propagandistic features, including similar topics and reasoning. Despite this, they differ in terms of implicit argumentation and other matters. Some promote the Carolingian empire, cast suspicion on and threaten opponents and defend Karl XII’s early accession. Others stress issues unrelated to royal power or express wishes regarding the new king’s future exercise of power. The analyses bring to light a number of symbolically significant places and buildings, as well as various horizontal and vertical positions that characterise the bards, any sponsors they might have had, and the intended audience. Thus, the dissertation can be said to deal with a rhetorical geography in which the Swedish Baltic empire constitutes a shared rhetorical space.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Uppsala universitet, 2022. p. 422
Series
Södertörn Doctoral Dissertations, ISSN 1652-7399 ; 211
Series
Studia Rhetorica Upsaliensia, ISSN 1102-9714 ; 11
Keywords
Rhetoric, history, political culture, Sweden, 1700th century, Karl XI, Karl XII, propaganda, epideictic, panegyric, retorik, historia, epideiktik, panegyrik, Karl XI, Karl XII, 1600-tal, propaganda, politisk kultur
National Category
History
Research subject
Baltic and East European studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50308 (URN)978-91-506-2981-1 (ISBN)
Public defence
2022-12-17, Geijersalen, 6-1023, Humanistiskt centrum, Thunbergsvägen 3P, Uppsala, 13:15 (Swedish)
Opponent
Supervisors
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, A049-2007
Available from: 2022-11-24 Created: 2022-11-30 Last updated: 2022-11-30Bibliographically approved
Wåghäll Nivre, E. (2013). Att skriva ett liv: Drottning Kristina som litterär och historisk figur. In: Sandin, Per (Ed.), Bilder av Kristina: Drottning av Sverige – Drottning i Rom = Images of Christina, Queen of Sweden - queen in Rome (pp. 247-262). Stockholm: Livrustkammaren
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Att skriva ett liv: Drottning Kristina som litterär och historisk figur
2013 (Swedish)In: Bilder av Kristina: Drottning av Sverige – Drottning i Rom = Images of Christina, Queen of Sweden - queen in Rome / [ed] Sandin, Per, Stockholm: Livrustkammaren , 2013, p. 247-262Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Livrustkammaren, 2013
Keywords
Drottning Kristina, svenskt och europeiskt 1600-tal
National Category
General Literature Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21338 (URN)1169/42/2007:9 (Local ID)978-91-87594-50-2 (ISBN)1169/42/2007:9 (Archive number)1169/42/2007:9 (OAI)
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies
Available from: 2014-01-14 Created: 2014-01-14 Last updated: 2019-08-29Bibliographically approved
Karlström, N. (2013). Praising a Queen and a New Era?: Gender and Rhetoric in One German-Language Panegyrical Text Written in Connection With the Coronation of Ulrika Eleonora the Younger of Sweden. In: Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre, Beate Schirmacher & Claudia Egerer (Ed.), (Re-)Contextualizing Literary and Cultural History: The Representation of the Past in Literary and Material Culture (pp. 189-206). Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Praising a Queen and a New Era?: Gender and Rhetoric in One German-Language Panegyrical Text Written in Connection With the Coronation of Ulrika Eleonora the Younger of Sweden
2013 (English)In: (Re-)Contextualizing Literary and Cultural History: The Representation of the Past in Literary and Material Culture / [ed] Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre, Beate Schirmacher & Claudia Egerer, Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, 2013, p. 189-206Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, 2013
Series
Stockholmer germanistische Forschungen, ISSN 0491-0893 ; 77
Keywords
Ulrica Eleonora the Younger of Sweden (1688-1741), gender, female rulers, rhetoric, coronation, panegyrics, 18th century, German, literature, Ulrika Eleonora d.J. von Schweden (1688-1741), Geschlecht, Regentschaft, Rhetorik, Krönung, Panegyrik, 18. Jahrhundert, Germanistik, Literaturwissenschaft, Ulrika Eleonora d.y. (1688-1741), genus, regentskap, retorik, kröningshyllning, panegyrik, 1700-talet, tyska, litteraturvetenskap
National Category
Languages and Literature Gender Studies
Research subject
Baltic and East European studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-18823 (URN)1169/42/2007:9 (Local ID)9789187235221 (ISBN)9789187235214 (ISBN)1169/42/2007:9 (Archive number)1169/42/2007:9 (OAI)
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies
Available from: 2013-04-29 Created: 2013-04-29 Last updated: 2019-08-29Bibliographically approved
Wåghäll Nivre, E. (2012). Leben schreiben – Leben beschreiben: Die Leben der schwedischen Königin Christina (1626–1689) in Quellen ihrer Zeit. In: Franciszek Grucza (Ed.), Vielheit und Einheit der Germanistik weltweit: Akten des XII. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Warschau, 2010 : Band 4 (pp. 259-262). Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Publishing Group
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Leben schreiben – Leben beschreiben: Die Leben der schwedischen Königin Christina (1626–1689) in Quellen ihrer Zeit
2012 (German)In: Vielheit und Einheit der Germanistik weltweit: Akten des XII. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Warschau, 2010 : Band 4 / [ed] Franciszek Grucza, Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2012, p. 259-262Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2012
Series
Publikationen der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG) ; 4
Keywords
Königin Christina von Schweden, Biographie
National Category
General Literature Studies
Research subject
Baltic and East European studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21339 (URN)978-3-631-63204-8 (ISBN)
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, A049-2007
Available from: 2014-01-14 Created: 2014-01-14 Last updated: 2020-07-10Bibliographically approved
Wåghäll Nivre, E. (2012). The King is Dead. Long Live … the Queen: Turning Points in Panegyric Writing – Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689). In: Ansgar Nünning and Kai Sicks (Ed.), Turning Points: Concepts and Narratives of Change in Literature and Other Media (pp. 337-350). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The King is Dead. Long Live … the Queen: Turning Points in Panegyric Writing – Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689)
2012 (English)In: Turning Points: Concepts and Narratives of Change in Literature and Other Media / [ed] Ansgar Nünning and Kai Sicks, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012, p. 337-350Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012
Series
Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft, ISSN 1860-210X ; 33
Keywords
Panegyric, Queen Christina of Sweden, Turning Points
National Category
General Literature Studies
Research subject
Baltic and East European studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21337 (URN)1169/42/2007:9 (Local ID)978-3-11-029710-2 (ISBN)1169/42/2007:9 (Archive number)1169/42/2007:9 (OAI)
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies
Available from: 2014-01-14 Created: 2014-01-14 Last updated: 2019-08-29Bibliographically approved
Wåghäll Nivre, E. (2011). An Affair of Great Importance: Queen Christina of Sweden (1626–1689). Comunicação e Cultura (Communication and Culture), 9, 43-58
Open this publication in new window or tab >>An Affair of Great Importance: Queen Christina of Sweden (1626–1689)
2011 (English)In: Comunicação e Cultura (Communication and Culture), ISSN 1646-4877, Vol. 9, p. 43-58Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lissabon: , 2011
Keywords
Queen Christina, Film, Biography, Greta Garbo
National Category
Media and Communications
Research subject
Baltic and East European studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21335 (URN)1169/42/2007:9 (Local ID)1169/42/2007:9 (Archive number)1169/42/2007:9 (OAI)
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies
Available from: 2014-01-14 Created: 2014-01-14 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Ström, A. (2011). Dyra och dugliga dygder: Klassisk epideiktik i tidigmodern retorisk teori. Rhetorica Scandinavica (58), 34-56
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Dyra och dugliga dygder: Klassisk epideiktik i tidigmodern retorisk teori
2011 (Swedish)In: Rhetorica Scandinavica, ISSN 1397-0534, E-ISSN 2002-7974, no 58, p. 34-56Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Retorikförlaget, 2011
Keywords
retorik, genus demonstrativum, epideiktik
National Category
Languages and Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-14843 (URN)1169/42/2007:9 (Local ID)1169/42/2007:9 (Archive number)1169/42/2007:9 (OAI)
Available from: 2012-01-20 Created: 2012-01-20 Last updated: 2024-01-17Bibliographically approved
Co-InvestigatorWåghäll Nivre, Elisabeth
Co-InvestigatorStröm, Annika
Principal InvestigatorEkedahl, Nils
Research StudentJohansson, Nina
Coordinating organisation
Södertörn University
Funder
Period
2008-01-01 - 2010-12-31
Keywords [sv]
Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning
Keywords [en]
Baltic and East European studies
National Category
General Language Studies and LinguisticsGeneral Literature Studies
Identifiers
DiVA, id: project:1714Project, id: A049-2007_OSS