Sökning: "modern Greek history"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden modern Greek history.
1. Tortyr och pinligt förhör - våld och tvång i äldre svensk rätt
Sammanfattning : Torture in the past is the subject of this dissertation. The aim of the study is to discuss one of the grand narratives of Swedish history. In an evolutionary frame Sweden has been put forward as a country which early developed judicial security for citizens. LÄS MER
2. Confessional Civilising in Ukraine : The Bishop Iosyf Shumliansky and the Introduction of Reforms in the Diocese of Lviv 1668-1708
Sammanfattning : This work examines and analyses the reform attempts undertaken by the Greek Orthodox and Uniate Bishop of Lviv, Iosyf Shumliansky, during his episcopacy (1668-1708). These reforms are seen as a means of facing the intensified confessionalising pressures at state and regional levels in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. LÄS MER
3. Eidola : Gender and Nation in the Writings of Penelope Delta (1874-1941)
Sammanfattning : Penelope Delta was a writer of books for children in the beginning of the twentieth century in Greece. Delta was active when the national project was at its peak. LÄS MER
4. Reading cultural encounter: literary text and intercultural pedagogy
Sammanfattning : This dissertation combines aspects of educational research, theories of culture and literary analysis. The main line of argument is that the informed reading and discussion of literary texts that thematise cultural encounter will enhance the intercultural dimension of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Swedish Upper Secondary schools. LÄS MER
5. Att skriva det grekiska : En otidsenlig position i svenskspråkig modernism
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to analyze how ancient Greek philosophy and literature – as it was mediated through Nietzsche – gained a vital function in the rise of early Swedish modernism and its later expressions. The turn to antiquity, within a modernism confined to the Swedish language, was not only intended as a breach in tradition, but above all to think anew, to transgress the conventions of (one’s) time. LÄS MER