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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 21 avhandlingar innehållade ordet runes.

  1. 16. Roman Imperialism and Runic Literacy : The Westernization of Northern Europe (150-800 AD)

    Författare :Svante Fischer; Frands Herschend; Patrick Périn; Klavs Randsborg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; North European; Arkeologi; nordeuropeisk;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation discusses Roman imperialism and runic literacy. It employs an interdisciplinary terminology. By means of terms new to archaeology, the growth of a specialized language, a technolect, is traced until it enters the realm of literacy. The author argues that there is more than one way for literacy to appear in prehistoric cultures. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Götisk kabbala och runisk alkemi : Johannes Bureus och den götiska esoterismen

    Författare :Thomas Karlsson; Erik af Edholm; Henrik Bogdan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Western Esotericism; Gothicism; Kabbalah; Alchemy; The Swedish Great Power period; Millennialism; History of religion; Religionshistoria; History of Religion; religionshistoria;

    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

  4. 18. Mästare och minnesmärken : Studier kring vikingatida runristare och skriftmiljöer i Norden

    Författare :Magnus Källström; Rune Palm; Inger Larsson; Michael Lerche Nielsen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Rune carvers; Runic inscriptions; Rune-stones; Viking Age; Personal names; Åsmund Kåresson; Rune-stone custom; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages; nordiska språk;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to determine what can be known about the people who were able to write runes during the Viking Age. The investigation is based on the runecarvers’ own statements about themselves and their work, which is normally found in the signature or the carver formula of the inscriptions. LÄS MER

  5. 19. A Pilgrimage to the Past : Johannes Bureus and the Rise of Swedish Antiquarian Scholarship, 1600-1650

    Författare :Matthew Norris; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bureus; Antiquarianism; History of Scholarship; Runology; History of Writing; Ancient Wisdom;

    Sammanfattning : At the end of the eighteenth century, Edward Gibbon described the antiquarian scholars of previous generations as men of “profound learning and easy faith.” His exemplar was the Swedish polymath Olof Rudbeck, who in a series of frantic and combative tomes sought to portray Sweden as the model for Plato’s Atlantis and the seething cultural cauldron from which Western civilization had emerged. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Bilder av kvinnor och kvinnlighet : genus och kroppsspråk under övergången till kristendomen

    Författare :Eva-Marie Göransson; Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : Gender is a process, a journey. It is in constant change, built up and altered by people who live itSaltering them. In this process, material culture is used both as an agent and as an object of representation.Gotlandic picture stones are the point of departure for this particular gender journey. LÄS MER