Sökning: "Eighteenth-Century sciences and arts"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden Eighteenth-Century sciences and arts.

  1. 1. The forgotten encyclopedia : the Maurists' dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences, the unrealized rival of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert

    Författare :Linn Holmberg; Mohammad Fazlhashemi; Caroline Boucher; Daniel-Odon Hurel; Antony McKenna; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; the congregation of Saint-Maur; the Maurists; Dom Antoine-Joseph Pernety; the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert; the Dictionnaire de Trévoux; history of science and ideas; history of encyclopedism; history of Monasticism; history of the book; the French Enlightenment; classification and organization of knowledge; Eighteenth-Century sciences and arts; microhistory; History Of Sciences and Ideas; idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : In mid-eighteenth century Paris, two Benedictine monks from the Congregation of Saint-Maur – also known as the Maurists – started compiling a universal dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences. The project was initiated simultaneously with what would become one of the most famous literary enterprises in Western intellectual history: the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Det svaga könet? : kön och vuxendödlighet i 1800-talets Sverige

    Författare :Sam Willner; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; alcohol; causes of death; gender; marital status; maternal mortality; sex differential mortality; 19th Century Sweden; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with mortality among adults in 19th century Sweden. Ever since the mid-eighteenth century there has been a pattern of excessive male mortality in practically all ages. The gap between the mortality curves of men and women have, however, varied greatly in time and space. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Anpassade för tillfället : Bruket av personvers i Norrköpings Tidningar 1760 till 1869

    Författare :Anne-Christine Lindvall; Bengt-Göran Martinsson; Dag Hedman; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; occasional poetry; non-fictional text; press history; Norrköpings Tidningar; Swedish litterature in the eighteenth and nineteenth century; recontextualization; addressee; genre; Norrköpings tidningar; svensk tillfällespoesi; personverser; historia; 1700-talet; 1800-talet; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : Occasional poetry was a well-known genre when the local newspapers in the middle of the eighteenth century were established in Sweden. Through the establishment of the papers occasional poetry also became a part of the papers. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Konsten att leva längre : Föreställningar om livets förändring i handböcker 1700-1930

    Författare :Janicke Andersson; Kenneth Petersson; Inga Sanner; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ageing; normality; historical sociology; deviance; technologies of the self; nature; culture; science; medicine; health; prolongevity; Åldrande; normalitet; avvikande; självtekniker; natur; kultur; vetenskap; medicin; hälsa; prolongevitet; historisk-sociologi; Social anthropology; Socialantropologi;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to explore discursive changes in conceptions of life course and ageing. I am particularly concerned with the relationship between knowledge and power in the distribution of prolongevity and body- technologies, and as referential frame in the definition of normal and deviant bodies and behaviour. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Vältalighet och mannafostran : retorikutbildningen i svenska skolor och gymnasier 1724-1807

    Författare :Stefan Rimm; Agneta Linné; Lars Petterson; Ann Öhrberg; Daniel Lindmark; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; history of education; history of rhetoric; curriculum history; curriculum studies; rhetoric instruction; school rhetoric; trivium; virtue; citizenship; masculinities; gender history; utbildningshistoria; retorikhistoria; läroplanshistoria; läroplansteori; retorikundervisning; skolretorik; trivium; dygd; medborgarskap; maskuliniteter; genushistoria; Education; Pedagogik;

    Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this dissertation is to explore the connections between rhetoric and civic and moral education. In the Latin schools (trivial schools, cathedral schools, and gymnasiums) in eighteenth-century Sweden, rhetoric still had a prominent position. LÄS MER