Cultural–historical approaches in Finnish and Swedish early modern research
Kuha, M. (2024). Cultural–historical approaches in Finnish and Swedish early modern research. In M. Kuha, & P. Karonen (Eds.), Swedish and Finnish Historiographies of the Swedish Realm, c. 1520–1809 : Shared Past, Different Interpretations? (pp. 230-247). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003219255-16
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The development of cultural history has taken different paths in Finland and Sweden due to differences in the political history of the two countries. In Sweden, the history of the state and politics formed the mainstream of historical research for a long time and demands of strict empiricism and source criticism led to a critical attitude toward cultural–historical sources and methods. In Finland, an independent state only since 1917, historians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries studied the nation instead of the state, favoring cultural, social, and economic approaches to history. Through an analysis of academic publications that focus on the early modern era (ca. 1500–1800), when the two countries formed one realm, this chapter compares cultural approaches within the study of early modern history in both countries. While in Finland, the roots of cultural historiography in early modern history writing extended to the turn of the nineteenth century, cultural approaches were adopted in Swedish early modern studies from the 1980s, with international influences. In both countries, especially from the 1990s, the history of mentalities and historical anthropology had an impact on early modern historiography.
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