Sökning: "Age of Enlightenment"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade orden Age of Enlightenment.
6. Att stoppa munnen till på bespottare och underrätta andra. Den akademiska undervisningen i svensk statsrätt under frihetstiden
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to study the education in constitutional law during the period 1719-1772, a period known as the Age of Liberty. According to the Instruments of Government 1719/1720, the actual power in the state was vested in the Diet, consisting of the four estates, all equal in voting matters. LÄS MER
7. Konsten att uppfinna hjulet två gånger : om uppfinnandets teknik och estetik
Sammanfattning : “There is no need to reinvent the wheel” – a cliché, often told when you want to come up with something new that in someway can be connected to something that already exist. This study shows the opposite – that inventions emanate from what is given. LÄS MER
8. 1809 : Statskuppen och regeringsformens tillkomst som tolkningsprocess
Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyses the coup d’état and the instrument of government of 1809 as an interpretative framing process. By close examination primarily of official sources it focuses on how political actors utilized the components of the existing political culture in order to legitimise their actions. LÄS MER
9. Gustav III - en upplysningskonungs tro och kyrkosyn
Sammanfattning : King Gustav III has often been viewed for his cultural interests and not least for the political engagement. Regarding religion he has usually been judged as indifferent and almost disrespectful. Based on extant historical sources, this dissertation questions this received understanding of the King's attitudes towards religion. LÄS MER
10. Boktryckarna i Åbo 1750-1828. En bokhistorisk studie genom ett yrke
Sammanfattning : When the immigrant printer from Germany, Johan Christopher Frenckell (1719-1779), became co-owner and principal of the academic printing house in Åbo in 1765, the old competition with the Royal Finnish Printing Office in Stockholm became obvious. The privileges to print catechisms and hymnbooks in Finnish now belonged again to the university of Åbo, but the Carlbohms continued to print these best-selling articles in Stockholm. LÄS MER