Sökning: "Middle Kingdom"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 avhandlingar innehållade orden Middle Kingdom.

  1. 1. Celestial Cycles : Astronomical Concepts of Regeneration in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts

    Författare :Patrik Wallin; Katja Goebs; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Archaeology; Ancient Egypt; Coffin Texts; Astronomy; Middle Kingdom; calendars; time; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; Egyptology; Egyptologi; Informatics; computer and systems science;

    Sammanfattning : This study analyzes the astronomical references found in the ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts. Chapter i presents the aim and method of this study as well as describing the primary sources and previous research. Chapter 2 deals with the conceptual background for the three cycles, as related to the year, month and the day as units of time. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Nechet und Nil : Ein ägyptischer Frauensarg des Mittleren Reiches aus religionsökologischer Sicht

    Författare :Erika Meyer-Dietrich; Håkan Rydving; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Ecology of religion; ecological factor; habitat; adaptational processes; cultural disposition; situationality; ritual process; person; religious world; real world; performatives; Hapi; Hymn of the Nile; Coffin Texts; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; religionshistoria; History Of Religions;

    Sammanfattning : This study is an attempt to develop a model within the field of ecology of religion. Particular emphasis is laid on the need for a comprehensive theoretical point of departure with regard to dynamics, viz. contextuality, situationality and the interactive mecanisms in adaptive processes. The model is developed on a basis of P. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Bilder av Mittens rike. Kontinuitet och förändring i svenska resenärers Kinaskildringar 1749-1912 : Images of the Middle Kingdom. Continuity and Change in Swedish Travelers' Accounts of China, 1749-1912

    Författare :Kenneth Nyberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; images of China; national images; orientalism; imagology; travel accounts; ethnocentrism; Chinoiserie; Sino-Swedish relations; Sweden and China;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyze the images of China in Swedish travelers’ published accounts – traditional travelogues as well as diaries, diplomatic reports, letters, and geographical handbooks – between 1749 and 1912. The main problem of the study is the question of continuity and change in these images, which are seen as the result of an encounter between preconceived notions and personal experience. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Biskop och stad : aspekter av urbanisering och sociala rum i medeltidens Linköping

    Författare :Göran Tagesson; Historisk arkeologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arkeologi; Archaeology; Medeltidens historia; Medieval history; sacral topography; residential yards; chapter; bishop; urban identity; urbanization; material culture; spatial analyses; Sweden; Middle Ages;

    Sammanfattning : Is it possible to understand a society and a certain place that is long since gone? The aim of this thesis is to study and analyse a historic period and its people through the remains of their material culture, the social relations and how these were materialized in an urban setting. The main subject of the empirical study, the medieval episcopal town of Linköping, has shifted out-look, function and meaning during different periods, but always with strong ideological expressions. LÄS MER

  7. 5. I kungens frånvaro. Formeringen av en isländsk aristokrati 1271–1387

    Författare :Sigríður Beck; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; aristocracy; Iceland; Middle Ages; friendship; political culture; elite; aristocratic identity; state formation; kingship;

    Sammanfattning : Icelandic society was transformed during the 13th century. There was no kingdom in Iceland until 1262/1264, when the Norwegian kingship annexed the country. Along with the kingship a new political system, with new rules and ways to acquire power, emerged. LÄS MER