Nicolaus Ragvaldi

View source&action=edit "This page is protected. You can view its source [alt-shift-e]") 2.1.5 Summary of contents, composition and style Summary of contents, composition and style) 2.2 (2) Collacio episcopi Wexionensis in dieta Atrebatensi pro negocio pacis regni Francie facta (2) Collacio episcopi Wexionensis in dieta Atrebatensi pro negocio pacis regni Francie facta) 2.2.1 Title Title 2) 2.2.1.1 Incipit Incipit 2) 2.3 (3) Compendium statutorum provincialium Upsaliensis provinciae (3) Compendium statutorum provincialium Upsaliensis provinciae) 2.3.1 Incipit Incipit 3) The speech was given on 12 November 1434. It was occasioned by the fact that there had been long discussions on which seats were to be taken by the various participants, according to their rank. The Spanish delegation claimed the foremost seats, through a speech given by Bishop Alphonso of Burgos, due to their descent from the famous Goths. Then Nicolaus Ragvaldi replied that, on the contrary, the Swedes were the real descendants of the Goths and thus entitled to the most prominent place – or at least to the most prominent but one. To prove this he summarizes the glorious history of the Goths and ends up by making a formal protestation that the position given to King Erik’s ambassadors should not mean any harm to the rights and privileges of the Nordic countries in the future. He asks to have this protestation entered into the acts of the Council. Oratio habita in concilio Basiliensi (Oration delivered at the Council of Basel). This title is used by BENZELIUS (see Editions). JOHANNES MAGNUS 1554: “Propositio et protestatio ... cum esset orator sereniss. d. Erici Gothorum & Suecor. regis in Concilio Basiliensi ...,” in Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus (Gothorum Sueonumque historia), Romae, fol. 533–38 (new edition: Basileae 1558, 618–24; reprint Coloniae 1567; [Wittenbergae] 1617). BENZELIUS, E. 1709: “Oratio habita in concilio Basiliensi,” in Monumenta historica vetera ecclesiæ Sueo-Gothicæ, Uppsala, 4°, 101–6. • SVENNUNG, J. 1963: “Tal om svenskarnas ättlingar goterna inför kyrkomötet i Basel 1434,” in Från senantik och medeltid 1 (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Klassikerförbundet 49 a) Lund, 174–80. ODELMAN, E. 1990: “Nils Ragvaldssons tal vid kyrkomötet i Basel,” in Röster från svensk medeltid, ed. H. Aili, O. Ferm, H. Gustavson, Stockholm, 286–98 (with translation, see Translations). PETRE[I]US, P. 1611: En kort och nyttigh chrönica om alla Sverikis och Göthis konungar ... samt een oration som hållen är uti Basel, anno 1440 ..., Stockholm, 139–48 (new edition: 1614, 175–85; 1656, 163–74). SCHRODERUS, E. 1620: Joannis Magni ... Swea och Götha Crönika ..., Stockholm, 472–77; reprint: PETERSSON, TH. 1945: “Växjöbiskopen Nils Ragvaldssons tal om goternas fornbragder på kyrkomötet i Basel” in Hyltén Cavallius-föreningen för hembygdskunskap och hembygdsvård. Årsbok 1945, Växjö, 173–79. ODELMAN 1990 (see Editions), 287–99. (Swedish) SVENNUNG, J. 1963 (see Editions): Från senantik och medeltid 2 (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Klassikerförbundet 49 b), Lund, 110–15. Nicolaus starts by addressing the Council in an exordium (§§ 1–7 in SVENNUNG’s edition), formulated in a rather Classical Latin style and showing certain traces of traditional rhetoric, such as the modesty topos (the orator’s apologizing for speaking). It cannot, however, be excluded that this introduction was added or revised by Johannes Magnus, whose Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus is the oldest witness of the longer version of the oration (see Medieval reception and transmission). Both the introduction and the concluding protestation are missing in the summary that Thomas Ebendorfer, who represented Vienna University at the Council and who listened to the speech, made in his Chronica Austriae, finished in 1463. The exordium is followed by a fairly monotonous enumeration, mostly lacking rhetorical embellishment, of Gothic rulers and their fabulous exploits (§§ 8–48).