Essays about: "Early Modern Swedish"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 58 essays containing the words Early Modern Swedish.

  1. 1. Folk Costume use portrayed in modern Swedish Museums : A study of nationalism, romanticism and bias in modern exhibitions as a consequence of a subject's history.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturvård

    Author : Klara Gracie Fridberg; [2023]
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    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis has been to investigate the presented usage of folk costumes in three different folk costume exhibitions and what this presented usage may be a consequence of. The essay's issues are: What usage of the folk costume is currently represented within Swedish folk costume exhibits? What implications can be found in this representation? What are the museum's opinions on the representation and its implications? The Swedish folk costume is classified as both immaterial cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Heraldry of the Vasa Dynasty : Coats of arms as propaganda tools in conflicts with the outside world and within the family

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Björn Fridén; [2023]
    Keywords : Heraldry; History; Early modern history; Vasa Dynasty; Propaganda; State formation; Nobility; Royalty; Sweden; Finland;

    Abstract : During the rule of the house of Vasa 1523-1654, Sweden saw a vastly increased output of new government heraldry and official symbols. This thesis investigates the political motives behind the creation of these symbols and their use as propaganda tools as part of the formation of the Swedish state. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Enlightenment Travels North : The ideology and practice in parish descriptions in early modern Norrland

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Johan Persson; [2023]
    Keywords : Swedish Enlightenment; Enlightenment; topographical literature; parish descriptions; Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers; travel journals; Norrland; science in practice; superstitions; slumbering riches; imperial gaze; Northern Sweden; Medelpad; Ångermanland; Åsele Lappmark;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of factory owner Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers’s collections of parish description about the parishes in Norrland, more specifically those about Medelpad and Ångermanland. The thesis seeks to explain how Hülphers’s collections were created in practice while also presenting the descriptions content and analysing the ideology it reproduced. READ MORE

  5. 4. Private Women with Public Opinions : Negotiating Gender in Early Modern Fashion Magazines

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Nele Popp; [2023]
    Keywords : gender perceptions; fashion magazines; public and private spheres; Habermas; female authors; late eighteenth century; early nineteenth century; gender roles;

    Abstract : This thesis researches the construction of gender ideals for the new Middle Class and women’s involvement in the same by analysing fashion magazines published in Germany and Sweden between 1786 to 1827 and 1818 to 1844, respectively. The analysis consists of two parts: first, the share of women’s involvement in the public sphere as defined by Habermas as well as the justification of the inclusion of female-written texts and second, the nature of gender ideals in relation to the separate spheres’ framework. READ MORE

  6. 5. Post-Extraction Mine-Scape. Alternate Production and Recreation Protocol for Slite.

    University essay from KTH/Stadsbyggnad

    Author : Saba Farheen Ahmed; [2023]
    Keywords : Extraction; Post-Industrial Urbanism; Landscape Regeneration; Microalgae Production; Gotland;

    Abstract : Quarrying of limestone on the Swedish island of Gotland dates all the way back to the 5th century but saw the rise of its modern form during the early 20th century, with the establishment of Cementa AB at Slite, which since then has developed as an industrial town. Cementa has been progressively mining limestone in three large open pit quarries in Slite. READ MORE