Essays about: "late middle ages"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 essays containing the words late middle ages.

  1. 1. Förekomst av snöskytte i hyggesfria metoden schackrutehuggning i Västerbotten

    University essay from SLU/School for Forest Management

    Author : Jenny Johansson; [2024]
    Keywords : phacidium infestans; kontinuitetsskogsbruk; Norrland;

    Abstract : Skogen är och har länge varit en viktig resurs för länet Västerbotten och den står för cirka 14 procent av den produktiva skogsmarksarealen i Sverige. Skogen i Västerbotten har brukats sedan medeltiden från småskaligt hushållsbehov till storskaligt skogsbruk i modern tid. READ MORE

  3. 2. THE CHOSEN CREATURES: HOW ANIMAL JUXTAPOSITIONS IN ANTISEMITIC PROPAGANDA CONTRIBUTED TO INSTITUTIONALIZED OTHERNESS

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Author : Heidi Keller; [2023-07-06]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This paper discusses how anthropomorphic animals have been used in depicting Jews in antisemitic art and propaganda imagery since the late High Middle Ages until the first half of the 20th century. It sheds light on why certain animal species were chosen to symbolize Jews, and categorizes the animals into three groups: creatures taken from the Hebrew Scriptures and the Jewish folklore inspired by it, animals presented in secular and pagan folklore influenced by legends from Ancient Greece and Rome, and the “anti-charismatic” fauna. READ MORE

  4. 3. Modelling the Water Table in a Bog

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Fysiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Tobias Bowley; [2023]
    Keywords : Physics and Astronomy;

    Abstract : Over the past five years, an ongoing study at INES, Lund University, have examined the encroachment of trees and vegetation into a bog ecosystem in northern Scania, Sweden. While several factors have been identified as contributing to this ecological transformation, including, nutrient availability, and climate, the hydrological aspect remains a key area of investigation. READ MORE

  5. 4. OSL dating of the Mesolithic site Nilsvikdalen 7, Bjorøy, Norway.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Elin Jirdén; [2022]
    Keywords : OSL dating; luminescence; SAR protocol; water content; archaeology; Late Mesolithic; Norway.; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Luminescence dating is a well-established dating method within geological and archaeological research. However, the use of luminescence dating, and more specifically optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), is currently underutilised in Norwegian archaeology. READ MORE

  6. 5. Comparing the Past and the Timeless: Landscape Use, Change, and Affordance in Central Blekinge, Sweden, Between the Iron Age and the Medieval Period

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Historisk arkeologi

    Author : Henrik Bernro; [2021]
    Keywords : Medieval; Middle Ages; Late Iron Age; Affordance; Landscape; GIS; Blekinge; Medelstad; Västra Vång; Hjortsberga; Hjortahammar; Listerby; Edestad; Förkärla; Historical Arcaheology; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : Recent archaeological excavations have uncovered an Iron Age temple house in Vång providing new context to the centrality of Iron Age central Blekinge in Sweden, as well as its development into the Medieval period. This thesis aims to examine how that development unfolded using the lens of affordance theory combined with a GIS assisted source pluralistic analysis. READ MORE