Search for dissertations about: "warrior"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the word warrior.

2. 1. The Birka Warrior : the material culture of a martial society

   Author : Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson; Lena Holmquist Olausson; Heinrich Härke; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Birka; martial society; warrior; material culture; distribution patterns; cultural expression; Rus’; Viking Age; Early Middle Age; iconography; style; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Abstract : This is a study of martial material culture in the context of the Viking Age warrior of Birka, Sweden. The aim is to establish the role, function and affiliation of the Birka warrior and thereby place Birka on the power-political map of the 10th century. READ MORE

4. 2. American Warriors in Vietnam: Warrior Values and the Myth of the War Experience During the Vietnam War, 1965-1973

   Author : Sanimir Resic; Öst- och centraleuropakunskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Myth of the War Experience; United States; warrior values; veteran discourse; Contemporary history since 1914 ; Vietnam; duty; honor; courage; masculinity; Warrior; Nutidshistoria från 1914 ;

   Abstract : In the Western world there has been a general consensus that in the aftermath of Auschwitz and Hiroshima, romanticized masculine images of war and soldiering have reached a turning point. This book challenges the view that the post- 1945 era has to a great extent been without romantizations of warriorhood. READ MORE

5. 3. Bronze Age Identities : Costume, Conflict and Contact in Northern Europe 1600-1300 BC

   Author : Sophie Bergerbrant; Kristian Kristiansen; Nick Thorpe; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bronze Age; burials; gender; warfare; lifecycle; contact; costume; South Scandinavia; Lüneburg culture; identity; conflict; warrior; Archaeology; Arkeologi; arkeologi; Archaeology;

   Abstract : This dissertation deals with male and female social identities during the Middle Bronze Age (1600-1300 BC) in southern Scandinavia and northern Germany. South Scandinavian Bronze Age research has traditionally focused on the male sphere, while women have seldom been seriously considered or analysed in terms of their roles, power or influences on society. READ MORE

6. 4. The funerary landscape at Knossos : a diachronic study of Minoan burial customs with special reference to the warrior graves

   Author : Madelaine Miller; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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7. 5. 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