Search for dissertations about: "history of ideas"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 252 swedish dissertations containing the words history of ideas.

  2. 11. On the Edge : The Concept of Progress in Bukhara during the Rule of the Later Manghits

    Author : Franz Wennberg; Carina Jahani; Bo Utas; Bert Fragner; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bukhara; Manghits; Islam; Jadidism; Qadimism; Conceptual History; Progress; Apocalypticism; Eschatology; Iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

    Abstract : This work is a study of the concept of progress in Bukhara between approximately 1860 and 1920. It is based on unpublished and published sources from this period. READ MORE

  4. 12. Enlightening Water : Science, market & regulation of mineral waters in eighteenth-century France

    Author : Armel Cornu; H. Otto Sibum; Hjalmar Fors; Sven Widmalm; Jakob Vogel; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Mineral waters; Eighteenth century; French Enlightenment; History of science; History of chemistry; Social history; Société de Médecine; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Abstract : My thesis investigates the process through which French mineral waters were conceptually and materially transformed by the forces of market, regulation, and science during the Enlightenment. Tracing this process deepens current understandings of eighteenth-century societies, and presents a novel image of the development of medicine and chemistry. READ MORE

  5. 13. Between Old and New Rome : Armenian and Bulgarian Contacts with the Papacy around 1204

    Author : Jonas Thungren Lindbärg; Helena Bodin; Linn Holmberg; Alexander Beihammer; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bulgaria; Cilician Armenia; Cultural Semiotics; Cumans; Empire; Ethnicity; Frontier; Innocent III; Rome; Symbolic Power; The Byzantine Commonwealth; The Fourth Crusade; The Latin East; Vlachs; idéhistoria; History of Ideas;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to examine the use of symbolic power at the establishment of the Second Bulgarian Empire and the Cilician kingdom of Armenia, and to further explore and discuss problems of language, translation, ethnography, legitimacy, culture and distinctions between “East” and “West” through these cases. Despite their geographical distance and diverse histories, these regions are united through a past of Byzantine domination and by their entering into unions with the Roman Papacy at this time. READ MORE

  6. 14. Ramism, Rhetoric and Reform : An Intellectual Biography of Johan Skytte (1577–1645)

    Author : Jenny Ingemarsdotter; Magnus Nyman; Hanna Östholm; Erland Sellberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Johan Skytte; history of education; Ramism; Petrus Ramus; utility; merit; humanism; Late Renaissance; Sweden; Age of Greatness; patriotism; Hesse-Kassel; the University of Marburg; Uppsala University; Charles IX; Gustav II Adolf; Vasa; Neo-Latin; dissertation; oration; rhetoric; reform; the mathematical arts; eloquence; History of science and ideas; Idé- o lärdomshistoria; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Abstract : This thesis is an intellectual biography of the Swedish statesman Johan Skytte (1577–1645), focusing on his educational ideals and his contributions to educational reform in the early Swedish Age of Greatness. Although born a commoner, Skytte rose to be one of the most powerful men in Sweden in the first half of the seventeenth century, serving three generations of regents. READ MORE

  7. 15. The Government Used to Hide the Truth, But Now We Can Speak : Contemporary Esotericism in Ukraine 1986–2014

    Author : Kateryna Zorya; Per Faxneld; Simon Sorgenfrei; Oleg Yarosh; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; esotericism; occultism; magic; Ukrainian history; Soviet history; transmission of esoteric ideas; intelligentsia; intellectuals; history of ideas.; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : The dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991, marked the end of what has been called the most extensive sociological experiment in history. Newly formed post-Soviet states found themselves in a state of total anomie—a society-wide collapse of social norms. READ MORE