Sökning: "medieval Scandinavia"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 32 avhandlingar innehållade orden medieval Scandinavia.
16. The Viking Way : Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
Sammanfattning : The social role of magic is a prevalent theme of the medieval Icelandic sagas that claim to describe life several centuries earlier in the Viking Age, and indeed also saturates the Eddic poetry that is our primary source for the mythology and cosmology of the time. However, little archaeological or historical research has been done to explore what this aspect of ritual may really have meant to the men and women of late Iron Age Scandinavia. LÄS MER
17. A Struggle for the Realm : Late-medieval Swedish rhyme chronicles as ideological expressions
Sammanfattning : The period from the mid-fifteenth century to the early sixteenth century was characterised by recurrent political turmoil and conflict in Scandinavia in general, and in Sweden in particular. Political power was contested, not least because of the disputed conditions on which the Swedish realm should be governed as part of the Scandinavian union monarchy. LÄS MER
18. Skriftsystem i förändring : en grafematisk och paleografisk studie av de svenska medeltida runinskrifterna
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to study the development of Swedish runic writing during the Middle Ages in terms of runic shapes and orthography. It comprises three related investigations. A preparatory investigation surveys the runic shapes employed during the Middle Ages in Sweden. LÄS MER
19. Mynt er hva mynt gjør : En analyse av norske mynter fra 1100-tallet: produksjon, sirkulasjon og bruk
Sammanfattning : The kings of Norway issued coins on a regular basis starting in the mid-11th century, and probably conducted renovatio monetae whenever a new king came to power. As a privilege of bona regalia, the king could use coin production to serve his own interests. LÄS MER
20. Gränsland : Konstruktion av tidig barndom och begravningsritual vid tiden för kristnandet i Skandinavien
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the process of Christianisation in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia through the social constructions of infancy and the beginnings of human life, as expressed in the ideals and practices seen in written and archaeological evidence. ‘Childhood’ is regarded as a social construction defined by, and therefore also reflecting, contemporary society. LÄS MER
