Dedicatory Practices in Early Uppsala Dissertations

Peter Sjökvist

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Chapter 26 Dedicatory Practices in Early Uppsala Dissertations

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Pages:: 681–702

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004436206_027

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The first printed dissertation from Uppsala University was published 1602. Just as most early modern dissertations it contains a dedication from the respondent to a person higher in the social hierarchy. The present article aims at describing the development of the dedicatory practices in dissertations printed in Uppsala during their first thirty years. What happens in the dedications at this stage? What is being said there? Why do respondents dedicate? An academic program from 1633 is discussed, in which the vice-chancellor of the university, Laurentius Olai Wallius, accuses the students of mis- using the dedicatory system because of greed, dedicating their publications to too many people and sometimes changing the dedications of the same publications. Seemingly protection, authorization, monetary and professional aid are what the respondents request or thank the dedicatees for. The dedicator’s modesty is an obligatory topos, but not necessarily without self-confidence. At a certain point, the subject of the dissertation starts to be discussed in the dedications as well.

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Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context

Series: Intersections, Volume: 71

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004436206

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 13 Nov 2020

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