Open this publication in new window or tab >>2023 (English)In: Religious Enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Nordic countries: Reason and orthodoxy / [ed] Johannes Ljungberg; Erik Sidenvall, Lund: Lund University Press, 2023, p. 191-210Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Whereas previous generations of historians had been relatively tolerant towards some of the expressions of medieval Christianity, this chapter reveals how an emphasis on common-sense rationality led to increasingly hostile views of the 'Catholic past' among late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Swedish historians. By means of close analysis of the era's principal historical works, the chapter demonstrates how Swedish authors managed to simultaneously criticize a competing faith system and mark their own time as civilized and rational. The chapter concludes that the Enlightenment had a bigger impact than the Reformation with regard to the re-evaluation of Sweden's Catholic past.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Lund University Press, 2023
National Category
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-520505 (URN)10.7765/9789198740417.00017 (DOI)001250533200008 ()9789198740417 (ISBN)9789198740400 (ISBN)
2024-01-122024-01-122026-02-09Bibliographically approved