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  1. 11. Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Ruth : a challenge to Christian England

    Författare :Monica Correa Fryckstedt; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska språket;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  3. 12. Braständaren och iakttagaren : engelsk press och journalistik 1695-1825

    Författare :Göran Leth; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Tidningar; historia; Storbritannien; Tidskrifter; historia; Storbritannien; Journalistik; historia; England; 1695-1925;

    Sammanfattning : The role of the press for the development of democracy is studied in the case of the English press and journalism of the 18th and early 19th centuries. In a first sub-investigation the issue is engaged on a theoretical level. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Processing death: Oval brooches and Viking graves in Britain, Ireland and Iceland

    Författare :Frida Espolin Norstein; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Oval brooches; Burials; Viking Age; Funerary rituals; Memory; Performance; Death; England; Scotland; Ireland; Iceland;

    Sammanfattning : Burials with oval brooches from the Viking Age settlements in Britain, Ireland, and Iceland have frequently been interpreted as the graves of a specific and uniform group of people: (pagan) Scandinavian women of relatively high status. This interpretation is partly a result of the way in which the material has been treated, as static entities with more or less fixed meanings. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Den medeltida byns sociala dimensioner

    Författare :Katalin Schmidt Sabo; Historisk arkeologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arkeologi; Archaeology; Medeltidens historia; labour division; southern Scandinavia; Kyrkheddinge; England; peasants; Medieval history; gender; strukture; spatial theory; medieval society; rural life; Middle Ages; village formation;

    Sammanfattning : This PhD thesis is made up of five independent studies and a comprehensive synthesis. The first three studies are published 2001 in the book Vem behöver en by? Kyrkheddinge, struktur och strategi under tusen år (pp. 1-95) (Who needs a village? Kyrkheddinge, Structure and Strategy During a Thousand Years). LÄS MER

  7. 15. Beastly Lessons: Natural Utopias in Seventeenth-Century England

    Författare :Sandra Iren Kottum; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; theriophily; animals; nature; utopias; emblems; empiricism; anthropocentrism; language of nature; beast literature; malleability; politics; animal exemplarity; animal language; colonialism; vegetarianism; early modern zoology; Leviticus; Royal Society; bestiaries; fables; The Parly of Beasts; The Blazing World; The Way to Health; James Howell; Margaret Cavendish; Thomas Tryon; early modern England; Golden Age; paradise; misanthropy; ecocriticism; self-fashioning;

    Sammanfattning : The present study investigates the motif of virtuous animal instructors in three selected English texts from the second half of the seventeenth century: James Howell’s The Parly of Beasts (1660), Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666), and Thomas Tryon’s The Way to Health (1683). These authors proposed solutions to the challenges facing early modern England, most notably the Civil War, the emerging empirical science, and the incipient colonization of the Americas. LÄS MER