Search for dissertations about: "early modern history"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 137 swedish dissertations containing the words early modern history.

  2. 21. Every Man His Own Monument : Self-Monumentalizing in Romantic Britain

    Author : Chris Haffenden; Frans Lundgren; Peter Josephson; Samantha Matthews; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Self-monumentalizing; self-made immortality; history of celebrity; cultural memory; historical consciousness; Jeremy Bentham; Auto-Icon; John Soane; Soane Museum; Benjamin Robert Haydon; autobiography; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Abstract : From framing private homes as museums, to sitting for life masks and appointing biographers, new forms of self-monumentalizing emerged in the early nineteenth century. In this study I investigate the emergence and configuration of such practices in Romantic Britain. READ MORE

  4. 22. Taming the Prophets : Astrology, Orthodoxy and the Word of God in Early Modern Sweden

    Author : Martin Kjellgren; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Apocalypticism; Astrology; Confessionalization; Heterodoxy; Knowledge; Lutheranism; Magic; Orthodoxy; Politics; Power; Prophecy; Reformation; Religion; Science; Social Discipline; Apocalypticism;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to analyse a displacement of the limits between allowable and illicit knowledge in the orthodox, Lutheran discourse of early modern Sweden. Focusing on the debate over astrology, exemplified in the works of Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (1565-1646) and Sigfridus Aronus Forsius (d. READ MORE

  5. 23. The Movement of a Musical Work : Ernst Krenek’s Opus 20 in the Interwar Years

    Author : Johan Larson Lindal; Eva Hemmungs Wirtén; Martin Fredriksson; Ingemar Grandin; Julian Johnson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Actor-Network Theory; Musical work concept; Micro-history; Modernism; Ernst Krenek; Actor-Network Theory; musikaliska verkbegreppet; mikrohistoria; modernism; Ernst Krenek.;

    Abstract : The dissertation studies how one ‘modern’ piece of music from the early 20th century became conceptualised as an idealised musical work: the Third String Quartet, opus 20 (op. 20) by Austrian composer Ernst Krenek (1900–1991). READ MORE

  6. 24. Lyckans betydelse : sekularisering, sensibilisering och individualisering i svenska skillingtryck 1750–1850

    Author : Anna Nilsson Hammar; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sensibilitet; sensibilisering; sekularisering; förnöjsamhet; dygd; lycklig; lycksalighet; lycka; anthropology; cosmology; chapbooks; begriffsgeschichte; conceptual history; individualization; sensibilization; sensibility; secularization; moral; religion; virtue; blessedness; felicity; happiness; bliss; individualisering; begreppshistoria; Koselleck; skillingtryck; kosmologi; världsbild; antropologi; människosyn;

    Abstract : This dissertation takes its departure from the methodology of German Begriffsgeschichte and sets out to explore the use of the concept of happiness in Swedish chapbooks (skillingtryck).The period considered, 1750-1850, frames the transition from early modern to modern society, a time that has often been labeled Sattelzeit or Schwellenzeit. READ MORE

  7. 25. Mechanicus : Performing an Early Modern Persona

    Author : Jacob Orrje; H. Otto Sibum; Fors Hjalmar; Thomas Kaiserfeld; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; mechanics; performance; virtue; persona; mathematics; self fashioning; education; masculinity; age; oeconomy; cameralism; Sweden; eighteenth century; intergenerational relationships; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Abstract : This thesis studies mechanics as a means of making men, rather than machines. Drawing on Swedish sources from 1700–50, it approaches mechanics as an exercise of a virtuous subject, known to his contemporaries as the “mechanicus”. READ MORE