Research project Sorrow and consolation in early modern Swedish castle and manor house culture

The aim of the project is to increase our understanding of grief and consolation in early modern Swedish castle and manor house culture through both close reading and digital remote reading of Carl Gustaf Bielke's (1683-1754) collection of funeral sermons, which is preserved in the Skokloster Castle Library. The project has been prepared through an RJ research infrastructure project on funeral sermons and seeks mainly to answer the following questions:

1. How are death, grief and illness in the countryside described in comparison with death, grief and illness in the city or at court in the funeral sermons?
2. What recurring patterns emerge and what do these say about ‘emotional scripts’ and consolation?