The Cambridge History Of Scandinavia

Author : Knut Helle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521472997

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The Cambridge History of Scandinavia by Knut Helle Pdf

This volume presents a comprehensive exposition of both the prehistory and medieval history of the whole of Scandinavia. The first part of the volume surveys the prehistoric and historic Scandinavian landscape and its natural resources, and tells how man took possession of this landscape, adapting culturally to changing natural conditions and developing various types of community throughout the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. The rest - and most substantial part of the volume - deals with the history of Scandinavia from the Viking Age to the end of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (c. 1520). The external Viking expansion opened Scandinavia to European influence to a hitherto unknown degree. A Christian church organisation was established, the first towns came into being, and the unification of the three medieval kingdoms of Scandinavia began, coinciding with the formation of the unique Icelandic 'Free State'.

Author : E. I. Kouri,Knut Helle,Jens E. Olesen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Scandinavia
ISBN : 1139031635

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The Cambridge History of Scandinavia by E. I. Kouri,Knut Helle,Jens E. Olesen Pdf

This series covers the geographical area occupied by modern Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, and the Scandinavian 'crown lands' (Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland) and Sweden's Baltic provinces and the Danish duchies of Slesvig and Holstein as they featured in Scandinavian history.

Author : E. I. Kouri,Jens E. Olesen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1316652998

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The Cambridge History of Scandinavia by E. I. Kouri,Jens E. Olesen Pdf

Author : Frederick J. Marker,Lise-Lone Marker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521392373

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A History of Scandinavian Theatre by Frederick J. Marker,Lise-Lone Marker Pdf

A balanced and authoritative account of the theatrical history of all three Scandinavian countries.

Author : Marian Card Donnelly
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262041189

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Architecture in the Scandinavian Countries by Marian Card Donnelly Pdf

The most complete survey of Nordic architecture available today.

Author : Magdalena Naum,Jonas M. Nordin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461462026

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Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity by Magdalena Naum,Jonas M. Nordin Pdf

​ ​In Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity: Small Time Agents in a Global Arena, archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians present case studies that focus on the scope and impact of Scandinavian colonial expansion in the North, Africa, Asia and America as well as within Scandinavia itsself. They discuss early modern thinking and theories made valid and developed in early modern Scandinavia that justified and propagated participation in colonial expansion. The volume demonstrates a broad and comprehensive spectrum of archaeological, anthropological and historical research, which engages with a variation of themes relevant for the understanding of Danish and Swedish colonial history from the early 17th century until today. The aim is to add to the on-going global debates on the context of the rise of the modern society and to revitalize the field of early modern studies in Scandinavia, where methodological nationalism still determines many archaeological and historical studies. Through their theoretical commitment, critical outlook and application of postcolonial theories the contributors to this book shed a new light on the processes of establishing and maintaining colonial rule, hybridization and creolization in the sphere of material culture, politics of resistance, and responses to the colonial claims. This volume is a fantastic resource for graduate students and researchers in historical archaeology, Scandinavia, early modern history and anthropology of colonialism

Author : Knut Helle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521472997

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The Cambridge History of Scandinavia by Knut Helle Pdf

The various countries and communities that constitute present-day Scandinavia consider themselves as integral parts of that larger region. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Greenland share a common geographic, historic and socio-cultural distinctness that differs from the rest of Europe. This "distinctness" provides the rationale for compiling a comprehensive and comparative history of Scandinavia. The first volume in the series will be followed by two others.

Author : Marianne Hem Eriksen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108497220

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Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia by Marianne Hem Eriksen Pdf

This book explores households, social organization, and rituals in Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of dwellings and their doorways.

Author : Michael Jonas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350046368

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Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War by Michael Jonas Pdf

This study is among the first works in English to comprehensively address the Scandinavian First World War experience in the larger international context of the war. It surveys the complex relationship between the belligerent great powers and Northern Europe's neutral small states in times of crisis and war. The book's overreaching rationale draws upon three underlying conceptual fields: neutrality and international law, hegemony and great power politics as well as diplomacy and policy-making of small states in the international arena. From a variety of angles, it examines the question of how neutrality was understood and perceived, negotiated and dealt with both among the Scandinavian states and the belligerent major powers, especially Britain, Germany and Russia. For a long time, the experience of neutral countries during the First World War was seen as marginal, and was overshadowed by the experiences of occupation and collaboration brought about by the Second World War. In this book, Jonas demonstrates how this perception has changed, with neutrality becoming an integral part of the multiple narratives of the First World War. It is an important contribution to the international history of the First World War, cultural-historically influenced approaches to diplomatic history and the growing area of neutrality studies.

Author : Angelo Forte,Richard D. Oram,Frederik Pedersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0521829925

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Viking Empires by Angelo Forte,Richard D. Oram,Frederik Pedersen Pdf

Viking Empires, first published in 2005, is a definitive global history of the Viking World.

Author : Francisc-Norbert Ormeny
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443854252

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Darkening Scandinavia by Francisc-Norbert Ormeny Pdf

Darkening Scandinavia attempts to reveal, in a philosophical and poetical key, the profound and unique existential, aesthetic and phenomenological intuitions to which the metal bands Lake of Tears, from Sweden, and Burzum, from Norway, the visionary Danish cinematic team consisting of the director Nicolas Winding Refn and the actor Mads Mikkelsen, and the charmingly-evasive Norwegian writer Per Petterson, have managed to give deeply-moving dark expressions. The book is a post-modern Heideggerian meditation on what could constitute the true nature of the Northern Darkness – written with a capital D – and on the incredibly visceral prevalence of the primordial Void in the Nordic soulscapes, a propensity signalled by means of phantasmagorical and allegorical projections. The author of the these four essays assumes the role of not only an interpreter, but also as a continuator of the philosophical messages, of the phenomenological intuitions and of the aesthetic catalysts present in the texts of the four analyzed subjects. By addressing in an academic, inter- and trans-disciplinary ahistorical manner some of today’s mysterious canonic niches, the book cultivates a healthy intellectual curiosity and a special sense of theoretical escapism.

Author : Ole Peter Grell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0521441625

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The Scandinavian Reformation by Ole Peter Grell Pdf

When Martin Luther's protest began making an impact in Scandinavia in the 1520s, this region belonged to the religious and political periphery of Europe. A century later the Nordic countries had become of paramount importance to European Protestantism, and it was the intervention of Lutheran Scandinavia in the Thirty Years' War which helped secure the survival of European Protestantism. This volume describes how the Nordic countries came to be solidly Lutheran states by the early seventeenth century; how the evangelical movements differed and succeeded, and the different pace of reform and its institutionalisation. It offers a revisionist view of the role of the Catholic Church in Scandinavia, and its attempts to halt the reformation, and demonstrates the difficulties facing the new Lutheran churches trying to convert a conservative, peasant population to Protestantism.

Author : Patrick Salmon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521891027

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Scandinavia and the Great Powers 1890-1940 by Patrick Salmon Pdf

Survey of the changing position of all four Nordic states in twentieth-century international relations.

Author : Neil Kent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107782587

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A Concise History of Sweden by Neil Kent Pdf

Neil Kent's book sweeps through Sweden's history from the Stone Age to the present day. Early coverage includes Viking hegemony, the Scandinavian Union, the Reformation and Sweden's political zenith as Europe's greatest superpower in the seventeenth century, while later chapters explore the Swedish Enlightenment, royal absolutism, the commitment to military neutrality and Pan-Scandinavianism. The author brings his account up to date by focusing on more recent developments: the rise of Social Democracy, the establishment of the welfare state, the country's acceptance of membership in the European Union and its progressive ecological programme. The book successfully combines the politics, economics and social and cultural mores of one of the world's most successfully functioning and humane societies. This is an informative and entertaining account for students and general readers.

Author : Terry Gunnell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859914585

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The Origins of Drama in Scandinavia by Terry Gunnell Pdf

A fresh look at early dramatic activity in Scandinavia, using archaeological, historical and literary evidence.