Essays about: "late medieval period"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the words late medieval period.

1. 1. Roots of Institutional Transformation: Hamburg in the late 16th and early 17th centuries

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Lorenzo Siemann; [2023]
   Keywords : Hamburg; early modern; merchants; institutions; institutional development; Hanse; Hanseatic League; Business and Economics; History and Archaeology; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : 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

3. 2. 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

4. 3. Identifying and Situating the Medieval Ragundaskogen: A Tale of Forest, Fish and Farmers

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Author : Alexandra Cochrane; [2021]
   Keywords : Eastern Jämtland; Medieval; Marginality; Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis; Abandoned Farms; Ragundaskogen; Resource Use; Jämtland and Härjedalen Diplomatarium; Niche Construction; Archaeology; Östra Jämtland; Medeltiden; Marginalitet; Medeltiden Agrarkris; Ödesböle; Ragundaskogen; Användandet av resurser; Jämtland och Härjedalen Diplomatarium; Nischkonstruktion; Arkeologi;

   Abstract : In several medieval written sources an area called Ragundaskogen (Eng: Ragunda Forest) is documented in eastern Jämtland. The references in the sources are general and lack specific information about location, meaning and the extent of this area. READ MORE

5. 4. Creating Kabīr : Understanding the use of Kabīr through the lens of Sanskritization

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Religionshistoria

   Author : Felix Rosén; [2021]
   Keywords : Kabīr; Nirguṇa; Saguṇa; Sanskritization; Bhakti; Sants; Dharmadas; Varṇa.;

   Abstract : 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

6. 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 institutionen

   Author : Rachel Bott; [2020]
   Keywords : Early modern; Late medieval; Gender; Power; Transformation; Hybridity; Sveriges medeltida ballader;

   Abstract : 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