Sökning: "aristocratic identity"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade orden aristocratic identity.
6. Magnus Gabriel De la Gardies Venngarn : Herresätet som byggnadsverk och spegelbild
Sammanfattning : Starting in about 1640, Sweden experienced a building boom among the nobility lasting up to 1680, when Charles XI initiated a massive withdrawal of Crown fiefs. Based on contemporary Swedish sources, the strategies and ideology behind these large new houses are discussed in connection with questions concerning visual identity – corporate as well as individual. LÄS MER
7. Biskop och stad : aspekter av urbanisering och sociala rum i medeltidens Linköping
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
8. Att följa decorum : Rumsdispositionen i den stormaktstida högreståndsbostaden på landet
Sammanfattning : During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the layout of the aristocratic country house throughout Europe changed considerably. The purpose of this thesis has been to study the layout of Swedish aristocratic country houses during the Era of Greatness. LÄS MER
9. Sökandet efter en tidsanda : i spåren efter Absalon
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation I have sought to test the possibility of recreating a detailed picture of an individual medieval person, tracing the Danish archbishop Absalon's own world of thought and action through those surviving sources that he has left behind. The sources are both written and material, and they include the cloister church in Sorø, the Havn Castle, the Medieval history Gesta Danorum, the rune stone and church in Norra Åsum and Absalon's testament. LÄS MER
10. Ages of liberty : social upheaval, history writing, and the new public sphere in Sweden, 1740-1792
Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates how different social groups used history as a political instrument in Sweden during the second half of the eighteenth century (1740-1792). More specifically, it analyzes how representations of the past were used to influence behavior, legitimize claims to power, mould opinion and forge collective identities. LÄS MER