All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
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The monarchy and the rhetoric of the nation in Swedish pulpits during the late-eighteenth century
| At each turn of the year, since the middle of the sixteenth century until the late twentieth century, the Swedish kings wrote a letter to be read out loud by the parish priest in front of his congregation. Until the middle of the nineteenth century everybody was to attend this ceremony, and the letters were also translated into the different languages spoken in the provinces of the realm. Consequently this was for a long period of time the most effective medium in which the king communicated as the “Father of the Country” in front of his subjects. In the letters the sovereign often referred to the need of reflecting on the state of the realm and customarily begun the address by looking back on the events of the previous year. A common theme was how to deal with different sorts of crisis, such as war, famine, moral deprivation and political upheaval. In this paper I will discuss how the absolute monarchs Gustav III (1771-1792) and Gustav IV Adolf (1792-1809) tried to generate legitimacy and maintain a sense of community. Compared to earlier periods, this period shows a fundamental change in the rhetoric of the nation in mainly three ways: in the concept of a fatherland, in the meaning of war, and in the concept of religion and its function in society.
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