Search for dissertations about: "early modern times"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 34 swedish dissertations containing the words early modern times.

  2. 1. In Their Majesties’ Service : The Career of Francesco De Gratta (1613-1676) as a Royal Servant and Trader in Gdańsk

    Author : Michał Salamonik; Heiko Droste; Piotr Wawrzeniuk; Karin Friedrich; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; De Gratta; Career; Network; Nobility; Merchants; Early Modern Times; Royal Mail; Postmaster; Mint Service; Credit; Potash; Royal Secretary; Poland-Lithuania; Brandenburg-Prussia; Baltic Sea; Italy; Poland; Gdańsk; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : This study analyses the administrative and economic career of Francesco De Gratta (1613–1676) as Royal Postmaster, Royal Secretary, and trader within the postal and fiscal systems of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This investigation focuses mainly on his network and career strategies and is based on various sources from a number of European archives and libraries, mainly those situated in Italy, Poland and Germany. READ MORE

  4. 2. Lighting candles before a headless Jesus : sacred heritage, heritagized sacredness, and the many journeys between categories

    Author : Helena Wangefelt Ström; Anna Foka; Federico Barbierato; Sabina Brevaglieri; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sacred heritage; religious heritage; heritage; heritagization; material religion; early modern Italy; early modern Rome; early modern Venice; collections; Catholic history; early modern travelers; religious conflict; post secularism; museums; museology; heritage studies; uses of heritage; religiöst kulturarv; sakralt kulturarv; kulturarv; kulturarvifiering; materiell kultur; materialitet; tidigmodern historia; tidigmoderna Italien; Rom; Venedig; samlingar; samlande; katolsk historia; postsekularism; museologi; kulturarvsstudier; museer; tidigmodernt resande; religionskonflikt; kulturarvsbruk; museology; museologi;

    Abstract : The overarching aim of this thesis, situated within Museology and Heritage Studies, is to investigate the different modes and devices of transfer between sacredness and heritage. The research question, 'What happens in the transfer between heritage and sacredness?', is investigated as production of sacred heritage in early modern Europe and specifically Sweden, Rome, and Venice (Part I), and as uses of the sacred as heritage in different times and contexts (Part II). READ MORE

  5. 3. Imagining the Organic City : Modern Tropes of Organization

    Author : Meike Schalk; Kenneth Olwig; Sven Olov Wallenstein; Helena Mattsson; M Christine Boyer; Faculty of Landscape Architecture Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU Alnarp; []
    Keywords : organic; organism; types; evolution; city; society; biology; Patrick Geddes; urban design; metabolism; organization;

    Abstract : The thesis examines three ’organic tropes’ of modern architecture and urban design, addressing different crucial moments of change within modernist discourse. Attention is focused on the institutionalization of ‘town planning’ at the turn of the last century; the shift during the post-war years; and the beginning of urban debate in Japan during the early 1960s. READ MORE

  6. 4. Dating Divergence Times in Phylogenies

    Author : Cajsa Lisa Anderson; Kåre Bremer; Katleen M. Pryer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; systematic biology; divergence time; nonprametric rate smoothing; Bayesian; multidivtime; eudicots; Neoaves; monocots; dating; molecular clock; relaxed clock; age constraint; fossil; calibration; PATHd8; penalized likelihood; Biology; Biologi;

    Abstract : This thesis concerns different aspects of dating divergence times in phylogenetic trees, using molecular data and multiple fossil age constraints.Datings of phylogenetically basal eudicots, monocots and modern birds (Neoaves) are presented. Large phylograms and multiple fossil constraints were used in all these studies. READ MORE

  7. 5. Divergence, admixture and continuity in the human past : Demographic inference using ancient and modern genomes

    Author : James McKenna; Mattias Jakobsson; Per Sjödin; Ida Moltke; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Human evolution; population genetics; ancient genomes; population continuity; divergence; Biology with Specialisation in Human Evolution and Genetics; Biologi med inriktning mot människans evolution och genetik;

    Abstract : Demographic forces shaping the genetic variation we observe today can include population divergences, admixture events and continuity through time. The advancement of high-throughput sequencing technologies, together with developments in molecular and bio-informatics methods, mean the number of ancient genomes available for inference has risen steeply. READ MORE