A Baroque Landscape of Earth, Water and Fire : The Production of Space at Skokloster, a Swedish Estate of the Seventeenth Century
Eriksdotter, Gunhild LU ; Nilsson, Pia and Monié Nordin, Jonas LU
(2015)
In Landscapes
16(2).
p.126-144
- Abstract
- This article uses the elemental concepts of earth, water and fire to examine the production, use and control of space in the seventeenth-century Wrangel estate at Skokloster in central Sweden. Using a relational approach, the paper discusses how the elements symbolically express a part of the baroque aesthetic, how they were emphasised or pinned down as part of an economic asset, and how they reacted and produced space in dialogue with human agents. The reciprocal relations between man and earth through food production, tenancy and rent, or the management of woodland for firewood, demonstrate an on-going interaction between various socially-hierarchical agents. The construction of dams and the control of water illustrate other struggles... (More)
- This article uses the elemental concepts of earth, water and fire to examine the production, use and control of space in the seventeenth-century Wrangel estate at Skokloster in central Sweden. Using a relational approach, the paper discusses how the elements symbolically express a part of the baroque aesthetic, how they were emphasised or pinned down as part of an economic asset, and how they reacted and produced space in dialogue with human agents. The reciprocal relations between man and earth through food production, tenancy and rent, or the management of woodland for firewood, demonstrate an on-going interaction between various socially-hierarchical agents. The construction of dams and the control of water illustrate other struggles between the tenants, the proprietor and the water itself. When setting up new types of heating systems inside the castle multiple sources of agency are visualised – the owners, the domestic servants, the woodland and the fireplaces. The study concludes that the elements operated as more than aesthetic and philosophical categories, but were empirically-evident worldly driving-forces. (Less)
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- author
- Eriksdotter, Gunhild
LU
; Nilsson, Pia
and Monié Nordin, Jonas
LU
- publishing date
- 2015
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- seventeenth century, space, agency, Sweden, Skokloster Estate
- in
- Landscapes
- volume
- 16
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 19 pages
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84957656668
- ISSN
- 2040-8153
- DOI
- 10.1179/1466203515Z.00000000046
- language
- English
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- 4b9a2865-e0d4-4f77-8ed9-a747d92fff61
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