Birgitta Ekblom

Research interests

Early modern period, panegyrics, visual rhetorics, pedagogics
 

Contact

Birgitta Ekblom

PhD student

Department of Literature

Box 632
SE-751 26 Uppsala
Sweden

Phone: +46-(0)18-471 61 86
E-mail: birgitta.ekblom@littvet.uu.se

Works in Progress

Birgitta Ekblom

Panegyrics Related to the Accession of a New Absolute Monarch in 1697

The thesis focuses on how panegyrical texts written in Swedish on the occasion of the death and funeral of Charles XI and the coronation of Charles XII functioned as a means of political communication.