Essays about: "Early Medieval Period"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words Early Medieval Period.
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1. To Gender or Not to Gender : A critical reassessment of how gender is – and can be – approached in archaeology, exemplified in two Scandinavian burial assemblages dating to the early Medieval period
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : Gender research in archaeology is a complex topic that puzzled scholars for decades. The past 50 years of it has seen a lot of theorizing, heated discussions, and requests for new additions to the archaeological toolkit so that this type of research can get a proper launch. READ MORE
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2. Roots of Institutional Transformation: Hamburg in the late 16th and early 17th centuries
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This study examines the beginnings of Hamburg’s institutional transformation from a predominantly Hanseatic-style city to a Northern European financial and economic center. Existing literature has repeatedly pointed out the importance of migrants in the diffusion of economic institutions in the early modern period. READ MORE
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3. Creating Kabīr : Understanding the use of Kabīr through the lens of Sanskritization
University essay from Uppsala universitet/ReligionshistoriaAbstract : The so called Bhakti movement spread, during the Late Medieval period, like wildfire across the South Asian subcontinent and acted like a catalyst for the development of nirguṇī-traditions. These newly emerging nirguṇī-traditions rallyd men and women alike, preaching for the abolation of the varṇa-system, for Muslim-Hindu unity, devotion to the one omipresent godhead, nirguṇa. READ MORE
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4. Liminal urbanity: Wars, connections and material culture in early modern Helsingborg
University essay from Lunds universitet/Historisk arkeologiAbstract : In the 1600s, Helsingborg was a small market town with great importance as a transport and trade connection between Scandinavia and the rest of Europe. Caught in the middle between two empires, Denmark and Sweden, the lives of Helsingborg residents were affected by wars, plagues and political disturbances. READ MORE
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5. “Pale her cheeks they ought to be, it was only yesterday that she had been a tree.” : Gender, Power, and Hybridity in the Swedish Medieval Supernatural Ballads
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis analyzes eight specific Swedish medieval ballads that contain supernatural transformation and hybridity for how they depict gender in late medieval and early modern contexts. Using literature as a historical resource and a micro-historical approach, this thesis applies gender theory, intersectional approaches, and monster theory to its reading of these ballads. READ MORE
