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”HVAD HON GUDS HUS HAR GIORDT KAN DETTA CHOR BÄST VIISA” : Kyrkorummet och adlig manifestation i Ösmo och Sorunda socknar / “What she has done for this house of God, this choir best shows” : Manifestation of the nobility in the churches in Ösmo and Sorunda parishes ca 1500-1950

By examining the donations by the local nobility to the local church, this thesis aims to study the church as a public room. By analyzing the donations of the nobility in relation to Habermas concept of the public sphere and the concept of conspicuous consumption the donations to the churches can be viewed as manifestations of power. This thesis studies all donations to the churches that leaves material and visual remnants in the church room. The results shows that there was a conscious strategy for the nobility to use the church for manifestation and representation of power. The nobility used their donations to manifest their power and to represent the power towards the people. This was done by filling the church with their names and coats of arms. By donating liturgical objects, church silver, chapels and coats of arms used for funerals the nobility was able to symbolically place themselves in the religious rituals. The church as a room was a symbolically and hierarchical place, and by connecting themselves with this room by donations the nobility could manifest their position in society, both locally and nationally.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-461579
Date January 2021
CreatorsAppelkvist Larsson, Patrik
PublisherUppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageSwedish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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