• Rex Vandalorum – The Debates on Wends and Vandals in Swedish Humanism as an Indicator for Early Modern Patterns of Ethnic Perception

    Author(s):
    Stefan Donecker, Roland Steinacher (see profile)
    Date:
    2006
    Group(s):
    Classical Tradition, Early Medieval, Roman archaeology
    Subject(s):
    Scandinavia, History
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Scandinavian history
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/n2eg-q509
    Abstract:
    For more than four hundred years, up to the accession of the present king Carl XVI Gustaf in 1973, did the Swedish monarchs hold the title “King of the Wends“. The first evidence of this claim dates from the reign of Gustav I Vasa (1523-1560), who adopted the title Sveriges, Göthes och Wendes Konung in official sources around the year 1540. In Latin documents, the threefold title was translated as rex Suecorum, Gothorum Vandalorumque. The equation of Wendes konung, “King of the Wends”, and rex Vandalorum, “King of the Vandals” in administrative and diplomatic usage provides a vantage point for discussing the relationship between these two ethnonyms in Swedish humanist resp. gothicist thought. This specific case study on Wends and Vandals promises valuable insights concerning the patterns of self-perception, the concepts of identity and otherness as well as the importance of ethnicity in the scholarly discourses of early modern Sweden.
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    Pub. DOI:
    http://opac.regesta-imperii.de/id/1175430
    Pub. Date:
    2006
    Book Title:
    Der Norden im Ausland - das Ausland im Norden: Formung und Transformation von Konzepten und Bildern des Anderen vom Mittelalter bis heute ; 25. Tagung der IASS (International Association for Scandinavian Studies) in Wien, 2.-7.8.2004
    Author/Editor:
    Nedoma, Robert
    Page Range:
    242 - 252
    ISBN:
    3-7069-0371-7 ; 978-3-7069-0371-4
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    4 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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