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16. Makten och döden : Stat och kyrka möter svenska efterlevande under ett långt 1700-tal
Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses the issue of how the Swedish governmental authorities – the secular (the State) and the ecclesiastical (the Swedish church) – aimed at treating the population during the early modern era. The question asked is whether the authorities always strived to foster the people, or whether there were areas where care for individuals was more important. LÄS MER
17. Fäderneslandets rätta beskrivning : Mötet mellan antikvarisk forskning och ekonomisk nyttokult i 1700-talets Sverige
Sammanfattning : The purpose of the thesis is to deepen our understanding the meaning of the term "fatherland" as it was used in eighteenth- century Sweden. It is commonly known that the term could represent a local or cultural community as well as a national and political one. The Swedish realm consisted of several parts of which Finland was one important part. LÄS MER
18. Konst i omlopp : mening, medier och marknad i Stockholm under 1700-talets senare hälft
Sammanfattning : The aim of this doctoral thesis is to explore how art was mediated and given meaning in the environment of an urban media culture in Stockholm during the second part of the 18th century. It comprises studies of how art was distributed on the market, how it was discussed in the press and how it was exhibited in public. LÄS MER
19. Liksom en herdinna : Litterära teman i svenska kvinnoporträtt under 1700-talet
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates how the class- and gender-related consumption of culture in the eighteenth century influenced Swedish female portraits from the period 1730–1800. A special interest is focused on the connections between portraiture and the literary world. LÄS MER
20. Johann Andreas Stein’s 1781 Claviorganum and the Construction of Art in Eighteenth-Century Augsburg
Sammanfattning : The latter half of the eighteenth century saw the piano’s rise in popularity in Europe, and alongside it many one-of-a-kind keyboard instruments that used the new technology of the hammer action in innovative ways. Recent scholarship revises the older view of these inventions as bizarre “dead ends,” suggesting that like the piano, they filled contemporary musical needs. LÄS MER