Sökning: "Medals"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Medals.
1. Äreminnen : Personmedaljer och social status i Sverige, cirka 1650–1900
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this dissertation is to study the waning of premodern ideas about society by investigating the ways in which social status was conceived. Analyses of linguistic expressions and negotiations of status are used to study changes in how different social groups related and acted on one another, what changed, and what remained constant as premodernity gave way to modernity. LÄS MER
2. The Medal in Early Modern Sweden : Significances and Practices
Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses medals issued between 1560 and 1792 in Sweden and studies the practices and roles related to these objects. It aims to contribute to the understanding of the varying uses and functions of early modern medals by applying a long-term perspective that connects Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical medals. LÄS MER
3. Kungsord i elfte timmen : Språk och självbild i det gustavianska enväldets legitimitetskamp 1772–1809
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the language and image of late Swedish absolutism. The sources used are royal medals and royal speeches and ceremonies at the Diets. The images are analysed as linguistic constructions, made up by a framework of concepts articulated in words, symbols and ceremonies around the kings. LÄS MER
4. The Voice of a Waning Empire : Selected Latin Poetry of Magnus Rönnow from the Great Northern War. Edited, with Introduction, Translation and Commentary
Sammanfattning : The thesis contains selected Latin poetry by the Swedish poet Magnus Rönnow (1665‒1735), composed during the Great Northern War. The Carolean age (1654–1718) was the hey-day of Latin literature, eloquence and poetry in Sweden. Rönnow was one of the last Latin poets in this tradition, and indeed one of the most outstanding. LÄS MER
5. Vivat vår monark! : Carl Michael Bellmans panegyrik över Gustaf III 1771-1792
Sammanfattning : Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795), who is chiefly associated with wine, song, a wayward poetic style, and little care for politics, wrote laudatory poetry to King Gustavus III (1746–1792) during the period 1771–1792. His royalist poems have been mostly viewed as uncharacteristically pompous and rigid, and neglected in favor of the vivacious song-cycles Fredman’s Epistles and Fredman’s Songs. LÄS MER
