Sökning: "Old Norse"
Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 32 avhandlingar innehållade orden Old Norse.
21. Sagans svenskar : Synen på vikingatiden och de isländska sagorna under 300 år
Sammanfattning : “The Swedes of the Sagas. A Historiographical Study of the Old Norse Sagas and the Construction of the Viking Age.” This thesis is related to the construction of collective identities, and the search for a common ancestry. LÄS MER
22. Götisk kabbala och runisk alkemi : Johannes Bureus och den götiska esoterismen
Sammanfattning : Gothicism in general, and the Swedish Gothicism in particular, had a close connection to the esoteric currents that were flourishing all over Europe in the Early Modern Period. Apocalyptic predictions and prophecies useful to Gothic propaganda were derived from contemporary esoteric streams, but alongside these came Hermetic and Neo-Platonic speculations of a more individual character that emphasized man’s gradual ascension toward a higher state. LÄS MER
23. Läkare och läkande : läkekonstens professionalisering i Sverige under medeltid och renässans
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis examines the arts of healing in the area of present-day Sweden dur¬ing the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (ca. 1100–1600 AD). It focuses on secular arts of healing for the body, rather than magical and religious healing or the cure of the soul. LÄS MER
24. Bonaderna från Överhogdal
Sammanfattning : The subject of this dissertation is the renowned cover found in 1910 in a store-shed belonging to the church in Överhogdal, Härjedalen—a part of Norway until 1645. The cover consisted of five pieces carelessly sewn together, later to be separated and numbered Ia, Ib, II, III, and IV. LÄS MER
25. Nakna män : Maskulinitet och kreativitet i svensk bildkultur 1900-1915
Sammanfattning : At the turn of the 20th century, there was a notion in Europe that urbanisation and industrialisation had drained the human race of spiritual and physical energy. A particular concern was that men were being emasculated. LÄS MER