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Bjørn Kornerup
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The World's First Full Press Freedom
The book charts an extraordinary period in Danish history: the "Press Freedom Period" of 1770-73, in which King Christian 7's physician J.F. Struensee introduced a series of radical enlightenment reforms beginning with the total abolishment of censorship. The book investigates the sudden avalanche of pamphlets and debates, initiating the modern public sphere of Denmark-Norway. Publications show a surprising variety, from serious political, economic, and philosophical treatises over criticism, polemics, ridicule, entertainment, and to spin campaigns, obscenities, libel, threats. A successful coup against Struensee led to his subsequent public execution in Copenhagen, and the latter half of th...
Hans Tausens Postil
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Friendship and Poetry
In this book a number of Professor Minna Skafte Jensens articles on Danish Neo-Latin poetry have been collected. The rich Danish Renaissance literature in Latin has since the 1980s been the subject of increasing attention. In her pioneering studies, written between 1984 and 2001, Minna Skafte Jensen presents some of the central authors, such as Hans Jrgensen Sadolin, Tycho Brahe, and Zacharias Lund. The articles offer sensitive readings with an eye to intertextual allusions as well as to the sociological context. The articles which were originally published in Danish appear here for the first time in English.
Enlightened Preaching
Balthasar Münter (1735-1793) is known primarily for being the spiritual advisor for Johann Friedrich Struensee in 1772. Münter is, however, generally interesting as a contributor to the theological development in Denmark-Norway in the eighteenth century, not least because he left a great number of theological texts to posterity. These texts are written in a public and political environment offering shifting conditions for the church. This present book analyses Münter's texts and sheds light on the extent to which he changes his preaching and teaching in accordance with the varying contextual conditions the church was given this period. The result is a textually oriented research work highlighting important theological texts which have not previously been the subject of scholarly investigation.
Knowledge, Politics and the History of Education
The humanities and social science disciplines are increasingly expected to prove their relevance faced with the politics of knowledge in the knowledge economy. This tendency is investigated in this book regarding the discipline of the history of education in America and Europe.
