Search for dissertations about: "18th Century letters"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words 18th Century letters.

  1. 1. Letters of a Learned Lady : Sophia Elisabeth Brenner's Correspondence, with an Edition of her Letters to and from Otto Sperling the Younger

    Author : Elisabet Göransson; Latin; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; eulogies; occasional poetry; letters; professional author; gynaecea; 18th century; correspondence; Otto Sperling the Younger; Sophia Elisabeth Brenner; learned woman; epistolography; Humanities; Humaniora; Latin language; Latinska språket;

    Abstract : Sophia Elisabeth Brenner (1659-1730) was Sweden's first great female poet, writing and publishing her poems over a period of fifty years. She was also, however, a prolific letter writer. The dissertation is based on an inventory of all the preserved letters to and from her written in Latin, Swedish, French and Italian. READ MORE

  2. 2. Relations of Absence : Germans in the East Indies and Their Families c. 1750–1820

    Author : Francisca Hoyer; Margaret R. Hunt; Claudia Jarzebowski; Renate Dürr; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; British East India Company; Dutch East India Company; Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie; 18th century; 19th century; Southeast Asia; India; Cape Colony; Brandenburg-Prussia; German history; global family history; new imperial history; gender history; history of emotions; concubinage; inter-ethnic unions; colonialism; slavery; Ostindienfahrer; petitions;

    Abstract : In the early modern period thousands of Germans, mostly men but also a few women and children, travelled to the Indian Ocean world in the service of the Dutch and British East India companies (VOC and EIC). Family played a key role for these Ostindienfahrer (East Indies travellers). READ MORE

  3. 3. Ubi est unitas? : The Latin Letters from Johannes Annorelius, a Swedish Catholic Convert, to his Brother. A Critical Edition with an Introduction

    Author : Cajsa Sjöberg; Latin; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Latinska språket; Latin language; heresies; scholasticism; Annorelius; critical edition; Latin letters; the Capuchin Order; Swedish Catholic converts; Counter-reformation; Latin literature; Neo-Latin; controversial theology; Latinsk litteratur;

    Abstract : This book presents a critical edition of the Latin letters in ms. G3 (Uppsala University Library) from Johannes Annorelius to his brother. Johannes Annorelius left Sweden as a young student in the beginning of the 18th century and settled down in Flanders, where he converted to the Catholic faith and became a Capuchin friar. READ MORE

  4. 4. Ramble, linger and gaze

    Author : Katja Grillner; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; architecture; landscape; representation; 18thcentury land­scape garden; 18th century England; ThomasWhately; Joseph Heely; Hagley Park; garden history; gardentheory; garden representation; garden experience; architecturalrepresentation; poetic representation; narrativerepresentation; philosophical dialogue; architectural researchmethodology; hermeneutics.; Architecture; Arkitektur;

    Abstract : Ramble, linger, and gaze explores a method of architecturalresearch based on narrative dialogue and examines the gardentheories and lite­rary garden representations of ThomasWhately (Observations on Modern gardening 1770) and JosephHeely (Letters on the Beauties of Hagley, Envil, and theLeasowes 1777). The thesis has the form of a narrated dialoguebetween these two writers and the narrator, and it is situatedat Hagley Park, Worchestershire, England. READ MORE

  5. 5. Nominal Morphology in Russian Correspondence 1700-1715 : Part One - Part Two

    Author : Isabelle Midy; Barbro Nilsson; Viktor Zhivov; Per Ambrosiani; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of the Russian language; morphology; nominal morphology; historical morphology; nomina; substantives; adjectives; pronouns; numerals; paradigm; paradigm shift; morphological change; Russian language; Ryska språket; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : The materials examined here consist of 121 Russian letters dating from 1700-1715. The present study aims to  define a stage in linguistic evolution and analyze the morphological heterogeneity in the textual corpus. The letters are divided into three categories: private, semiofficial, and official. READ MORE