Historiography at the Court of Christian 4 : Studies in the Latin Histories of Denmark by Johannes Pontanus and Johannes Meursius, Volume 11.
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Museum Tusculanum Press,
2001
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Table of Contents:
- Front cover ; Title page ; Colophone ; Contents; I Introduction; The Scope of the Present Book; Editions; II The Promotion of a New History of Denmark in the Reign of Christian IV; III The Authors; Johannes Pontanus; 1. Pontanus's Career before his Appointment as Danish Historiographer; 2. Preparations for the 1631 Edition; 3. Pontanus's Activities as Danish Historiographer in the 1630s; Johannes Meursius; 1. Meursius in Leiden; 2. Meursius in Sorø. The Publication of the First Volume of his History of Denmark; 3. The Publication of the Second Volume.
- 4. The Personal Relationship between Meursius and PontanusA Note on Stephanus Johannis Stephanius; IV Pontanus's and Meursius's Predecessors. Danish Historiography after the Lutheran Reformation; 1. Introduction; 2. Johannes Magnus's Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sveonumque regibus; 3. Hans Svaning; 4. Anders Sørensen Vedel ; 5. Niels Krag; 6. Arild Huitfeldt; 7. Jon Jacobsen Venusin; 8. Claus Christoffersen Lyschander; 9. Poetical History; 10. Swedish Historiography after Johannes Magnus; V Opening the Books; 1. The Title Pages; 2. Size; 3. The Dedicatory Prefaces; 4. Dates.
- VI Pontanus's Rerum Danicarum historiaThe Chorographica Regni Daniæ Descriptio; 1. Survey of Contents; 2. The Antiquarian Tradition; 3. Etymology and the Classics; 4. Written Sources; 5. The Influence of Tacitus's Germania; 6. Gothicism Dismissed; The Chronological Narrative of Pontanus's; Rerum Danicarum historia; 1. The Introduction; 2. Books I-III (The early history, up to c. AD 750); An Alternative to Saxo; The Abbreviation of Saxo's Earliest History; 3. Book IV; Sources; The Reign of Ericus Barn; The Origin of the Normans; 4. Book V; Sources; The reign of Canutus Magnus.
- 5. Books VI-X and the Oldenburg History (up to 1588)Sources; Danish Influence Abroad; 6. Selected Themes; The Royal Family; The Monarchy; Norway; Sweden; Cultural Affairs; VII Meursius's Historia Danica; I. Introduction; 2. Meursius's Sources; 3. Survey of Subject-matter; 4. Reflections on Power and Morals; The Influence of Justus Lipsius; The Realistic Trend; The Moralistic Trend; 5. The Christian Foundation; 6. The Christian Element in Meursius's Sources; 7. The Protestant Outlook; Meursius's Censure of the Worldly Bishops; Other Protestant Themes; Protestantism and Monarchy.
- 8. The Hereditary Monarchy9. The Danish Empire; The Continued Rule over Neighbouring Countries in the Legendary Past; Svaning and the Danish Empire in the Legendary Past; 10. Sweden and the Union of Kalmar; 11. Christianus II, the Tyrant King; 12. Denmark and Germany in the Twelfth Century; 13. The Anonymous Nobleman's Commentary on Meursius's Historia Danica; VIII Style; Introduction; 1. Contemporary and Later Evaluations; 2. Words and Syntax; Meursius; 1. Meursius's Adaptation of Pontanus; 2. Meursius's Adaptation of Svaning; 3. Meursius's Adaptations of Saxo and Krantz.
