Nordic light

Introduction . . 7

SECTION I
Candide on a Northern Journey . . 11
Spectators in Denmark . . 23
About Flora Danica . . 35
A Moravian Brother in Greenland . . 49
The Potential of the 18th Century in Terms of Literary History . . 65

SECTION II
Enligtened Darkness - Ludvig Holberg and Religion . . 79
"To be deeply moved in one's inner being" - Examples of Memoirs Written by Moravian Women . . 97
Anna Maria Lenngren - a Jocular Believer . . 117
When Magnus Brynolph Malmstedt Read Kant. Enlightenment Ideas and Alternative Rhetoric within the Eighteenth-century Swedish Moravian Movement . . 141
Improvisation and Artistic Creativity. Ambrosius Stub, H.A Brorson, and the Song Tradition of the 17th and 18th Centuries . . 161
Two Pietism and an Enlightenment - Halle and Herrnhut Viewed from Copenhagen . . 179