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  2. 1. A Call for Scientific Purity : Axel Hägerström's Critique of Legal Science

    Author : Max Lyles; Claes Peterson; Marie Sandström; Heikki Pihlajamäki; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Legal history; Axel Hägerström 1868-1939 ; Uppsala School; Scandinavian Legal Realism; philosophy; anti-metaphysics; anti-subjectivism; legal philosophy; legal science; legal positivism; legal realism; Begriffsjurisprudenz; natural law; Sweden; Legal history; Rättshistoria; Historia; History;

    Abstract : The subject matter of this study forms an analysis of Axel Hägerström’s (1868-1939) theories of law and legal science - ideas that were formative both for the Uppsala School and Scandinavian Legal Realism. By means of a close analysis of Hägerström’s epistemology and ontology, the general principles of his theory of science have been outlined, especially the marked stance of anti-metaphysics (anti-subjectivism), the logical notion of reality, and the application of conceptual analyses. READ MORE

  4. 2. In the Shadows of Poland and Russia : The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Sweden in the European Crisis of the mid-17th century

    Author : Andrej Kotljarchuk; David Gaunt; Robert I Frost; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish-Lithuanian Relations; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Second Northern War; Swedish-Ukrainian Diplomacy; Swedish-Russian Diplomacy; Protestantism in Lithuania and Belarus; History; Historia;

    Abstract : This book examines and analyses the Union between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Sweden signed in 1655 at Kėdainiai and the political crisis that followed. The union was a result of strong separatist dreams among the Lithuanian-Ruthenian Protestant elite led by the Radziwiłł family, and if implemented it would radically change the balance of power in the Baltic Sea region. READ MORE

  5. 3. Sinners and citizens : bestiality and homosexuality in Sweden 1880-1950

    Author : Jens Rydström; George Chauncey; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; gay and lesbian history; gender; sodomy; homosexuality; bestiality; sexual history; modernity; welfare state; Swedish history; queer theory; medical discourse; legal discourse; Homosexualitet; attityder; historia; Sverige; 1800-talet; 1900-talet; historia; History;

    Abstract : This study is based on an analysis of more than 2,300 court cases concerning acts of bestiality and same-sex sexuality in rural and urban Sweden 1880-1950. Other written sources are forensic psychi-atric statements, mental hospital records, material from the Swedish Sex Reform movement, news-papers and scientific journals, and minutes of the Swedish Parliament and its subcommittees. READ MORE

  6. 4. I want to stay : Local community and prisoners of war at the dawn of the eighteenth century

    Author : Olof Blomqvist; Heiko Droste; Annika Sandén; Dan H. Andersen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; War captivity; Prisoners of war; Urban history; History of migration; State-building; Honour; Microhistory; Great Northern War; Eighteenth century; Denmark; Saxony; Sweden; Aarhus; Torgau; Uppsala; historia; History;

    Abstract : This dissertation is about war captivity in the early eighteenth century. It is also about the ways in which early modern local communities negotiated their boundaries towards the outside world. The resident populations’ interaction with prisoners of war (POWs) offers unique perspectives on how local communities handled wartime migrants. READ MORE

  7. 5. The voice of the people? : Supplications submitted to the Swedish Diet in the Age of Liberty, 1719–1772

    Author : Martin Almbjär; Svante Norrhem; Peter Lindström; Nils Erik Villstrand; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Age of Liberty; audit; Diet of Estates; early modern state formation; eighteenth century; institutions; national debt; parliamentary committees; petitions; political participation; public office; supplications; taxes; trade privileges; Supreme Court; welfare; historia; History;

    Abstract : This dissertation is devoted to the study of who used the formal channels of interaction in the early modern era and why. It examines the full range of the political conversation in early modern Sweden, as seen in the supplications to the Diet in the Age of Liberty (1719–1772), and more specifically the supplications submitted to the parliamentary committee tasked with handling them, the Screening Deputation. READ MORE