Jammers Minde: Difference between revisions

'''''Jammers Minde''''' (literally ''A Memory of Lament''), translated into English as '''''Memoirs of Leonora Christina''''', is an autobiography completed in 1674 by [[Leonora Christina Ulfeldt|Leonora Christina]], daughter of [[Christian IV of Denmark]] and [[Kirsten Munk]]. The work, first published in 1869, is included in the [[Danish Culture Canon]]. It is considered to be the finest piece of prose work written in 17th-century Denmark.<ref name="Monod2001">{{cite book|last=Monod|first=Paul Kléber|authorlink=Paul Monod |title=The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589-1715|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LNAmbT21ctUC&pg=PA209|accessdate=18 January 2013|date=11 August 2001|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-09066-6|page=209}}</ref><ref name="Stecher-Hansen2004">{{cite book|last=Stecher-Hansen|first=Marianne|title=Danish writers from the Reformation to decadence, 1550-1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NM0UAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=18 January 2013|date=6 August 2004|publisher=Gale|isbn=978-0-7876-6837-2|page=460}}</ref> It relates a partly fictionalized account of Christina's time during captivity, with a detailed personal account of prison life, often drawing upon biblical references and black humour, and contrasting the comical with the macabre. Radical for its period in its personal account, it is considered an existential religious writing.