Search for dissertations about: "kings"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the word kings.

  2. 16. The missing link : Civil-military aspects of effectiveness in complex irregular warfare

    Author : Robert Egnell; Christopher Dandeker; Mats Berdal; Christopher Coker; Pascal Vennesson; London King's College Department of War Studies; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

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  4. 17. Actor and Event : Military Activity in Ancient Egyptian Narrative Texts from Tuthmosis II to Merenptah

    Author : Patrik Lundh; Kim Ryholt; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Ancient Egypt; military texts; Tuthmosis III; Amenhotep II; Ramesses II; Battle of Megiddo; Battle of Kadesh; Egyptian empire; New Kingdom; Merenptah; military expeditions; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; Egyptology; egyptologi;

    Abstract : This study treats the function of the military writings of ancient Egypt, from Tuthmosis II to Merenptah (c. 1492–1203 B.C.). READ MORE

  5. 18. To rede and to rown : Expressions of early Scandinavian kingship in written sources

    Author : Svante Norr; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; kingship; historical analogy; textual archaeology; written sources; counsel; rune; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Abstract : The subject of this thesis is early Scandinavian kingship, and the analysis is based on a number of written sources and runic inscriptions. A study of early Germanic kingship focuses primarily on the development of Gothic kingship from the fourth to the sixth century. READ MORE

  6. 19. Early Neo-Assyrian State Ideology : Relations of Power in the Inscriptions and Iconography of Ashurnasirpal II (883–859) and Shalmaneser III (858–824)

    Author : Mattias Karlsson; Olof Pedersén; Gojko Barjamovic; Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Assyriologi; Assyriology;

    Abstract : This study aimed at identifying and discussing Early Neo-Assyrian state ideology through focusing on relations of power in the inscriptions and iconography of Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III. The relationship between the Mesopotamian deities (“the great gods”), the Assyrian king, and the foreign lands was highlighted in this analysis. READ MORE

  7. 20. The Money of Monarchs : The Importance of Non-Tax Revenue for Autocratic Rule in Early Modern Sweden

    Author : Klas Nilsson; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; revenue; autocracy; regime change; fiscal sociology; public finance; state-building; Sweden; Early Modern Europe; Rentier State; royal power; statsinkomster; statsstyre; politisk utveckling; Rentier State; Rentierism; skattesystem; tidigmodern statsbildning; Sverige; europeisk historia;

    Abstract : According to a venerable argument about the formation of political regimes in historical Europe, taxation goes hand in hand with representation, as financial needs forced rulers to trade rights for revenue. In this dissertation I explore the reverse assumption, asking whether it is the case that non-taxation went hand in hand with non-representation? I argue that early modern rulers who had access to what I conceptualize as ‘proprietary revenue’—including profits from landownership, natural resource extraction, state-owned enterprise, and colonial plunder—could use such revenue to concentrate political authority in their own hands and rule as autocrats. READ MORE