Search for dissertations about: "Kings"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the word Kings.

  2. 1. Urban policies for a contemporary periphery : Insights from eastern Russia

    Author : Vasileios Kitsos; Zhanna Kravchenko; Lisa Kings; Sasha Tsenkova; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; urbanism; global city; globalizing city; globalization; post-socialism; policy mobility; mega-events; boosterism; urban regeneration; corporate social responsibility; participatory planning; Russia; Siberia; Asia-Pacific region; contemporaneity; Politics; Economy and the Organization of Society; Politik; ekonomi och samhällets organisering; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : In recent decades, the notion of quality of life has been closely associated with the built urban environment and urbanistic practice. Policies addressing public space and aiming at cities’ increased international competitiveness are proliferating. READ MORE

  4. 2. Kings at Karnak : a study of the treatment of the monuments of royal predecessors in the early New Kingdom

    Author : Gun Björkman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Historical cultures; Historiska kulturer;

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  5. 3. Rügen : a Forgotten Fief of the Danish Kings c. 1168–1325. Preter Rugiam et Terras ei Attinentes

    Author : Kerstin Hundahl; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Rügen; Denmark; Medieval; Principality; Wendic; Wends; War; Scandinavia; Baltic; Kings; Valdemar; Fief;

    Abstract : The principality of Rügen was a fief under the Danish kings for nearly 200 years. In that time its princes provided valuable assistance in the form of primarily military service. This thesis tells the story of the forgotten principality and how its princes helped shape many of the most important events in Danish medieval history. READ MORE

  6. 4. 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

  7. 5. Staging the world. Rome and the other in the triumphal procession

    Author : Ida Östenberg; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; world mastery; kings; barbarians; conquest; aerarium; wealth; triumphator; representations; captives; spoils; enargeia; spectators; display; role-playing; processional sequence; self-definition; the other; ritual; performance; Rome; triumphal procession; oikumene.; Ancient history; Antikens och forntidens historia;

    Abstract : The triumphal procession staged Roman conquest and supremacy, featuring the defeated ‘other’ as opposed to the victorious ‘self’ in a rather fixed role-playing. This thesis takes as its theoretical premise that these ritually recurrent and visually emphatic processions both conveyed and constructed Roman views of the self and the other, and that they can be studied as formative expressions of such conceptions. READ MORE