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Scripts of Kingship : Essays on Bernadotte and Dynastic Formation in an Age of Revolution
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- When French Marshal Jean Baptiste Bernadotte was elected heir to the Swedish Throne in 1810, a dramatic dynastic venture commenced. In an age of revolutions, marked by political as well as cultural upheavals, the commoner from Pau was transformed into King Charles XIV John and the head of a new royal dynasty in Sweden and Norway. Although fraught with challenges, the venture proved successful. As restoration set in, and the Napoleonides of Europe fell one after the other, Bernadotte held fast, and today the dynasty is approaching its bicentennial on the throne.In nine illustrated essays, the formation of a dynasty is explored as it unfolded in media such as ceremonies, spatial arrangements, opera performances, publicity and panegyrics.
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- Johansson, Mikael, 1972
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Libanius' Declamations 9 and 10
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Of the Antiochene orator Libanius, active in the 4th century A.D., we have an unusually large quantity of literary products preserved. The works attributed to him include among others speeches, progymnasmata, and letters. Among his works are also found about fifty declamations. This study is concerned with two of the latter, declamations 9 and 10. This pair of judicial speeches, a so-called antilogy, consists of the fictitious speeches of Neocles and Themistocles, imagined as delivered in 480 B.C. The likewise fictitious presupposed trial concerns the annulment of the disownment of Themistocles by his father Neocles. The text offers a good example of the literary genre of declamation of later antiquity. The present study has three aims: (1) to translate and present a legible text of these declamations; (2) to comment on the language and rhetoric of the text; (3) to investigate on which historical sources Libanius builds declamations 9 and 10. This work offers the first translation of these declamations into a modern language, as well as the first commentary. The study also focuses upon the impact of the rhetorical treatise De inventione (falsely attributed to the 2nd-century rhetorician Hermogenes of Tarsus) on these speeches. On this matter some conclusions are drawn. Concerning the determination of which historical sources Libanius relied on when composing declamations 9 and 10, the findings of the present study differ from earlier investigations of the question, which have seen a large number of influences from authors such as Herodotus and Aelius Aristides in these rhetorical pieces.
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