Search for dissertations about: "Critical historiography"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the words Critical historiography.

  2. 1. Johannes Magnus and the Composition of Truth : Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus

    Author : Astrid Nilsson; Latin; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Johannes Magnus; Latin historiography; history; historiography; truth; tyrants; kings; Gothicism; Renaissance;

    Abstract : Johannes Magnus (1488–1544) was the last Catholic archbishop of Uppsala to hold residence in Sweden. He was also a historian and wrote a work in Latin about Swedish history that was to gain an unparalleled importance. READ MORE

  4. 2. Listening from within a Digital Music Archive : Metadata, Sensibilities, and Music Histories in the Danish Broadcasting Corporation's Music Archive

    Author : Andreas Helles Pedersen; Musikvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Digital cultures; Digital archives; Metadata; Historiography; Aesthetics; Critical thinking; Music history; Infrastructure;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how digital music archives can facilitate different versions of the history of recorded music. It argues that digital technologies and metadata enable coexisting historical narratives of recorded music that move across time and musical genre, and that can cross geographical and cultural space. READ MORE

  5. 3. A Century of Swedish Gustavian Style : Art History, Cultural Heritage and Neoclassical Revivals from the 1890s to the 1990s

    Author : Hedvig Mårdh; Emilie Karlsmo; Per Strömberg; Helena Kåberg; Kjetil Fallan; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gustavian style; authenticity; style; taste; Swedish art history; nationalism; exhibition design; reconstruction; period furniture; historical societies; design history; critical heritage studies; museum studies; historiography; Nordiska Museet; Nationalmuseum; Svenska Slöjdföreningen; Konstvetenskap; History of Art;

    Abstract : This is a study of the intersection between art historical theory and practice, and cultural heritage, where the revivals and mediations of the neoclassical Gustavian style have been used as a platform for further exploration. In relation to this, the use and changing meanings of the concepts authenticity and style have been examined. READ MORE

  6. 4. Grez-sur-Loing revisited. The international artists' colony in a different light

    Author : Alexandra Herlitz; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Grez-sur-Loing; French rural artists’ colony; international artists’ community; the Grez Style; the Grez School; nineteenth century painting; juste milieu painting; historiography; factoids; cultural geography; nationalism; lieu de mémoire; Swedish art history of the nineteenth century; Opponents’ Society ‘Opponentförbundet’ ; actor-network;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the rural artists’ colony in Grez-sur-Loing and its art from the heyday of the community, 1875–1885, when artists from North America, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Scandinavia were gathering in the French village. The international community has hitherto been viewed separately along national or linguistic lines. READ MORE

  7. 5. Revisiting the Past : Israeli identity, thick recognition and conflict transformation

    Author : Lisa Strömbom; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; memory institutions.; memory agents; historiography; New History ; conflict transformation; Thick reocognition; identity theory; narrative theory; nationalism; post-Zionism; Israel;

    Abstract : Intractable conflicts are by definition difficult to resolve. This study ventures into the identity dynamics of those conflicts and argues that those identity aspects must be addressed in order to locate constituencies for change. READ MORE