Humanism in a christian society.

Autor: Kajanto, Iiro,
ISBN: 9789514105920
OKCZID: 129499931

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p. 204 / 214. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar / Cover slightly rubbed, otherwise good copy - One might justly wonder whether the study of classical mythology at a provincial, small and internationally insignificant university can have more than national interest. I am, however, convinced that this is not so. Literature and learning were to a great extent homogeneous throughout Europe in the 17th century. Hence the discussion of the attitude to the pagan gods and myths at one university will contribute to the general history of classical mythology. Moreover, the number of poems, orations and learned treatises from this period in our country is not so overwhelmingly large as it is in most other countries, even in Sweden and Denmark. Our material thus has the advantage that it can all be exploited within the compass of a single monograph.- INTRODUCTION -- In the first volume, I described the intellectual climate in Finland, which in the seventeenth century was part of the kingdom of Sweden. This was an age of humanism in Sweden. In Finland, however, thinly populated and poor, intellectual life was modest, and chiefly centred on the University. The University was founded in 1640 in Turku ( Swedish Abo ) , the then capital of the country, closed in 1713 because of the Russian invasion, reopened in 1722, moved to Helsinki in 1828, when it was renamed the University of Helsinki. Today it is still the country's leading institute of higher learning. The first printing-press was set up in 1642. It was only after that date that publications written by natives of this country or by Swedes who had come here as professors or in some other official capacity, began to be available in an appreciable number. But the range of publications was still limited. Disregarding Swedish and occasional Finnish or German writings, Latin publications consisted of learned treatises, almost exclusively academic dissertations, occasional poetry: congratulations, epithalamia, epicedia, and orations, either brief pieces in collective publications, not actually delivered, or full-length orations made on various occasions, especially in connection with funerals. -- Although the age was dominated by strict and even intolerant Protestant Orthodoxy - modem ideas, such as Copemicanism and Cartesianism could assert themselves only after tough resistance - classicism also found its way here, although it came late and in modest forms. Classical mythology, a kernel of classicism, was cultivated as decorative motifs in poetry or discussed in a number of dissertations. Although the traditional methods of interpretation, allegorizing and euhemerism, with an admixture of Hebraizing, still predominated, they were, nonetheless, not very different from the continental debate. The legacy of antiquity was particularly clear in the ideas of Fate and Fortune, which despite attempts to assimilate them to Christian thought retained their pagan core as agencies beyond human control. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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