Sökning: "war booty"

Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden war booty.

1. 1. Displaying Loot: The Benin objects and the British Museum

   Författare :Staffan Lundén; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Benin; Benin bronzes; Benin objects; Britain; British Museum; colonialism; cultural property; Edo; heritage; loot; museums; museum studies; Nigeria; repatriation; representation; restitution; war booty; Westernness; Kulturföremål historia; Beninsk konst historia; Plundringar historia; Återlämning av kulturföremål; Kulturarvsbrott; Great Britain History; Cultural property Repatriation; Beninriket; Storbritannien;

   Sammanfattning : This study deals with the objects, now in the British Museum, that were looted from Benin City, present-day Nigeria, in 1897. It looks at how the museum represents the Benin objects, the Edo/African, the British/Westerner, and the British Museum. LÄS MER

3. 2. The Mild Boredom of Order : A Study in the History of the Manuscript Collection of Queen Christina of Sweden

   Författare :Eva Nylander; digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap Avdelningen för ABM; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Queen Christina of Sweden; Isaac Vossius; Nicolas Heinsius; Gabriel Naudé; history of book collecting; manuscript collections literary war booty; classification systems; cataloging traditions; Vatican Library; Fondo Reginense Latino; Codices Reginenses Latini; Domenico Teoli; the order of books; sociology of collections; Baroque book culture;

   Sammanfattning : This study examines how the Latin manuscript collection of Queen Christina of Sweden was formed, what function it served for the queen and for others, and how various attempts to impose order on it reflect different epistemological traditions. A recurring theme of the study is the creation of order and the title, The Mild Boredom of Order, a quotation taken from an essay on book collecting by Walter Benjamin, refers to this pervasive theme. LÄS MER

4. 3. Krigsbytets biografi : Byten i Riksarkivet, Uppsala universitetsbibliotek och Skokloster slott under 1600-talet

   Författare :Emma Hagström Molin; Erland Sellberg; Solveig Jülich; Brita Brenna; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; 17th-century spoils of war; cultural looting; history of collections and collecting practices; object biography; materialisations; the history of archives; libraries; and museums; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History of Sciences and Ideas; idéhistoria;

   Sammanfattning : This study explores the biography of spoils through analysing cases of cultural looting by Gustavus Adolphus and Carl Gustaf Wrangel during their seventeenth century military campaigns. Today, such artefacts are in general described as “war booty”, although this expression (“krigsbyte”) first occurred in the Swedish language in 1712. LÄS MER