PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE M
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PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA:SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE AGESBy Alexander Jacobson Honors Thesis spring 2021 Professor Katherine Smith an PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mnd Professor Doug Sackman University of Puget SoundJacobson IIntroductionBefore Gustav Vasa—or Gustav I of Sweden—established a new hereditary monarchy and Swedish state in the early sixteenth century, following the collapse of the Kalmar Union (1397-1523). Swedish kings had already developed a long PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE M tradition of invoking the Legend of St. Erik the Holy throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to legitimize their rule over the proto-natioPROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE M
n of Sweden.1 Since St. Erik was the former King of Sweden during the Baltic Crusades—who expanded the Swedish kingdom into Finland and Estonia—his roPROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA:SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE AGESBy Alexander Jacobson Honors Thesis spring 2021 Professor Katherine Smith an PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mtion as the hero of the realm. Additionally, in the fifteenth century members of the Swedish clergy at the see of Uppsala would even craft mythologized histories and invoke the Legend of St. Erik by pointing to proto-national themes such as common descent and common history Ĩ0 justify what they perc PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Meived as the need for an independent Sweden.However, for most religious legends about saints, many historians struggle with deciphering between fact aPROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE M
nd fiction. This is due to a myriad of difficulties—one being the ability to acquire validated medieval texts that confirm key aspects of the legend. PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA:SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE AGESBy Alexander Jacobson Honors Thesis spring 2021 Professor Katherine Smith an PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mnational icon and the protectorate of the Swedish realm. But in 2014 archeologists at Uppsala University and Stockholm University reopened a 1946 study on St. Erik the Holy. .As the legend of Saint Erik goes: “[it] is said in his late thirteenthcentury legend to have fallen in an uneven battle again PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mst invading troops led by a Danish1 Biốin Tjailen. Church and Nat ion: the Discourse on Authorin'ill Ericus Dial's Chronica Regni Gothonint (c. Ỉ4 7Ỉ/PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE M
(Stockholm: Department of History. Stockholm ưniversữy. 2007) 1 OS -113. Karl Knutsson even claimed that he was a descendent of St. Enk in trying to PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA:SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE AGESBy Alexander Jacobson Honors Thesis spring 2021 Professor Katherine Smith an PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Making in mass.'Well, after conducting research on the bones of a man presumed to be the former crusader king, the researchers presented evidence that potentially confirm the legend's claim that he was "killed by a Danish pretender to the throne in 1160 on a site where the Uppsala Cathedral was later PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE M built.”-Now while the potential confirmation that a "Danish pretender" martyred King Erik bears little relevance to today’s political discourse betwePROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE M
en the Scandinavian nations, when the Kalmar Union (1397-1523) collapsed and Gustav Vasa estahl ished a hereditary’ monarchy in Sweden, the legends ofPROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA:SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE AGESBy Alexander Jacobson Honors Thesis spring 2021 Professor Katherine Smith an PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mtian II of Denmark beheaded roughly eighty nobleman and clergy (including Gustav Vasa's father) for their earlier revolts against the Union King. Furthermore, even though these narratives at first glance loosely mimic modern nationalist rhetoric, after situating them in the proper social.political, PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mand religious contexts of the Middle Ages, these narratives exhibit elements of nationalism, or what 1 call proto-nationalism.Traditionally the scholaPROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE M
rship on nationalism focuses on Western. Central, and Eastern Europe. It is on these regions that most nationalism theory rests and is then extrapolatPROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA:SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE AGESBy Alexander Jacobson Honors Thesis spring 2021 Professor Katherine Smith an PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mies in I ate Medieval Lund and Uppsala.” in SaitiKandSainthood around I he Baltic Sea. ed. by Carsten Selch Jensen. Tracey’ R. Sands. Nils Holger Petersen. Kun Villads Jensen, and I nomas M. s. I .ehlonen. (Medieval Institute Publications: Western Michigan University, 2018) 237. rhe legend of St. Er PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mik establishes him as a builder of churches, a lawgiver, and the epitome of a just monarch’ Hanna Hcllzcn Cramer. "The Legend of Erik the Saint May BePROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE M
Truc.”lhc legend of Erik the Saint may he tnic -Stockholm I Jniversity. March 18.2016. https: www.su.se english research ihe-legend-of-erik-lbe-saintPROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA:SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE AGESBy Alexander Jacobson Honors Thesis spring 2021 Professor Katherine Smith an PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mon the bones correspond with the documented injuries King St. Erik sustained. The most convincing of these injuries corresponds with the legend's claim that King Erik was beheaded as one of the cervical vertebras was severed.Jacobson 3by some scholars of nationalism,4 this impertinent error must be PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mameliorated by acknowledging the different manifestations of nationalism in other regions, including Northern Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia.PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE M
The whole world does not operate like Western, Central, or Eastern Europe. Yet. when taking a geographical survey of the scholarship done on nationaliPROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA:SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE AGESBy Alexander Jacobson Honors Thesis spring 2021 Professor Katherine Smith an PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mhas analyzed countries in Latin America. East Asia, and South Asia, there remains large regional gaps in the scholarship of nationalism. This project seeks to begin filling in the regional gap of nationalism for Scandinavia.hl addition, some prominent scholars of nationalism such as Ernest Gellner a PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mnd Eric Hobsbawm excluded religion as a mechanism of nationalism, creating a gap in the discipline and ignoring an important analytical perspective. APROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE M
drian Hastings—a historian and Catholic priest— pushes against these modernist notions and claims that religion is a “neglected dimension'* of nationaPROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA:SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE AGESBy Alexander Jacobson Honors Thesis spring 2021 Professor Katherine Smith an PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Ms of nationalism where national and religious identities intersected—such as Schonerer's German nationalism that embraced antiCatholicism, anti-Slavism, and anti-Semitism.5 While this was an adversarial relationship between nationalism and religion, this example nonetheless demonstrates how national PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mism and religion can interact. Tills project will directly link the secular and religious spheres of medieval Sweden and highlight the interactions bePROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE M
tween church politics and secular politics; the systemic interconnectedness between church and realm (later state); and lastly situating these events PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA:SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE AGESBy Alexander Jacobson Honors Thesis spring 2021 Professor Katherine Smith an PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Merer. From Heinrich Schnee, ed.. Georg Ritter von Scliõneier. Ein Kămpíer till Alldeutschland [Georg Ritter von Schõnerer. A Fighter for Pan-Germany], third, improved and expanded edition (Reichenberg: Sudetendeutscher Verlag Franz Kraus, 1943). pp. 126-27.140-42.17 5.238-39. Translated by Jeremy Ki PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mng & Rachel Coll. 2001.Jacobson 4corresponding social and religious movements that transpired during the time period such as the Renaissance and the RPROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE M
eformation. By doing so these erroneous assumptions made by modern nationalism scholars can hopefully be redressed.Next, rather than going down the raPROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA:SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE AGESBy Alexander Jacobson Honors Thesis spring 2021 Professor Katherine Smith an PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mtion of religious, social, economic, political, and even early ethnic movements that rise and dip over centuries across different regions. By disentangling the effects of modernization when considering the formation of national identities, nationalism theory can then better incorporate pre-modern co PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mntributions to national identity formation. To do this. I will be building upon the work of Susan Reynolds—an Oxford professor in medieval history—toPROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE M
demonstrate how medieval communities in general, and in Scandinavia in particular, have been misconstrued by modem historians. Furthermore, studying rPROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA:SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE AGESBy Alexander Jacobson Honors Thesis spring 2021 Professor Katherine Smith an PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mnationalism. Toprove this I intend to explore how Scandinavian religious traditions impacted national identity formation, and how Swedish state building, in particular, reinforced religious proto-national narratives as the region transitioned from the late Middle Ages to the Early-Modern era. Althou PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE Mgh this argument would be strengthened by also analyzing nonEuropean nations, it is beyond my expertise and ability to analyze nationalism in these rePROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA- SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE M
gions— while also respecting cultural diversity.Looking first at modern nationalism theory'. I will provide a brief survey' of accepted theories by prGọi ngay
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