Den nordiska hushållsstaten / Urban Claesson, Nina J. Koefoed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Claesson, Urban, author.

Koefoed, Nina J., author.

Language:

Swedish

Subjects (All):

Families--Sweden.

Families.

Christian civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages)

Place of Publication:

Göteborg : Kriterium, 2025.

Summary:

With Martin Luther's ideas about society as a household, governed by parents, a model for social organization was established that would become important in the Nordic countries during the 16th and 17th centuries. When the Nordic monasteries were dismantled with the Lutheran Reformation, households formed the new framework for Christian life. The Ten Commandments replaced the rules of the monasteries. Morning and evening prayers replaced the prayers of the monastic hours in the same way. At various levels, the household would form the given and legitimate form of community and organization. The relationship between parents and children therefore became normative far beyond what we would today call the biological family. In older research, the important historical role of the household is usually associated with the Swedish church historian Hilding Pleijel and her thesis about the world of the House of Tables. Based on new research, the authors in this anthology support Pleijel's basic assumption about the central role of the household. This, however, occurs in a way that Pleijel himself could hardly have imagined. After two chapters that update the research situation, a number of studies follow in which the historical and at the same time theological roles of the household are analyzed at different levels. Within the two Nordic kingdoms, the household is analyzed in everyday life, within church teaching and as an overall household state. The anthology has a special contribution by linking research fronts from Denmark and Sweden and offers comparative perspectives on why the household was given such similar but at the same time so different forms in each kingdom.

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ISBN:

91-7655-497-X