Making Cultural History
Making Cultural History

Author: Anna Kallen

Publisher: Nordic Academic Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 9187351331

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This volume contains 17 essays with fresh new approaches to cultural history from 17 authors that belong to different academic disciplines, including archaeology, art history, classical languages, ethnology, fashion studies, history, history of ideas, history of religion, literature studies, and media studies. Making Cultural History has sprung out of the Research School for Studies in Cultural History at Stockholm University, an interdisciplinary research program focusing on interplays between past and present. The authors of this volume display a kaleidoscope of innovative approaches to traditional academic subjects such as celebrity, literary genre, prehistoric remains, television, and historic monuments. The perspectives focus on obscure corners and gaps between the illuminated centers of traditional academic knowledge and create an understanding that all narratives, representations, and claims of culture and history are in some sense political. Challenging, disturbing, inspirational, these essays all make cultural history.

Greek Iron Age Architecture
Greek Iron Age Architecture

Author: Kåre Fagerström

Publisher: Paul Astroms Forlag

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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ABSTRACT: This study originated in an attempt to gather recent information in Greek Iron Age original draw what conclusions may be drawn from this information. TB attempt has, indeed, been carried through, but additionally it was found that a critical re-examination of the entire body of the material was necessary. This body comprises archaeological, societal, palacobotanical, palacozoological and other subjects, I believe only pottery dating was left undisputed. 'The study is divided into three main parts. The first part is devoted to the examination of the archaeological material, ordered as a catalogue of sites. The second part concerns matters of technique and siting, while the third deals with function and society. In the course of the study, it emerged that not only were there profound changes and major developments in architecture, but also-and interrelated with those in architecture there were changes and developments in societal and economic strategies. The study came to focus on these changes and the relationships between them. The results suggest a number of developments, of which the most important are:1.A decline of prosperity and communications after the Bronze Age, already noted, was emphasized by a strict regionalism and primitivity of architecture, a reversion to a herding economy coupled with traces of an exceptionally primitive form of government.2.A renewal of seafaring and of agriculture as the main subsistence strategy, architecturally heralded by an emphasis on vast, diversified, and conspicuous storage facilities. Populations grew as a result of increase of produce and goods exchange.3.Architecturally in essence a continuation of inference Nr. 2 above. A societal crisis, brought about by the increase of populations, is reflected in new forms of government, in the codification of laws, an emphasis on meeting places and as a result, a new architectural phenomenon arises-the Greek temple. The early temples are typically the focal points of the new Greek community the polis.

Reassessing the Roles of Women as 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Architecture
Reassessing the Roles of Women as 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Architecture

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-05-07

Total Pages: 1184

ISBN-13: 9004228322

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These volumes propose a renewed way of framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women. Today’s standard division of artist from patron is not seen in medieval inscriptions—on paintings, metalwork, embroideries, or buildings—where the most common verb is 'made' (fecit). At times this denotes the individual whose hands produced the work, but it can equally refer to the person whose donation made the undertaking possible. Here twenty-four scholars examine secular and religious art from across medieval Europe to demonstrate that a range of studies is of interest not just for a particular time and place but because, from this range, overall conclusions can be drawn for the question of medieval art history as a whole. Contributors are Mickey Abel, Glaire D. Anderson, Jane L. Carroll, Nicola Coldstream, María Elena Díez Jorge, Jaroslav Folda, Alexandra Gajewski, Loveday Lewes Gee, Melissa R. Katz, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Pierre Alain Mariaux, Therese Martin, Eileen McKiernan González, Rachel Moss, Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh, Felipe Pereda, Annie Renoux, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, Stefanie Seeberg, Miriam Shadis, Ellen Shortell, Loretta Vandi, and Nancy L. Wicker.

Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives
Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives

Author: Anders Andrén

Publisher: Nordic Academic Press

Published: 2006-01-12

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9185509833

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Consisting of more than 70 papers written by scholars concerned with pre-Christian Norse religion, the articles discuss subjects such as archaeology, art history, historical archaeology, history, history of ideas, theological history, literature, onomastics, Scandinavian languages, and Scandinavian studies. The interdisciplinary aim of the book brings together text-based and material-based researchers to improve scholarly exchange and dialogue and provide a variety of contributions that elucidate topics such as worldview and cosmology, ritual and religious practice, myth and memory, as well as reception and present-day use of old Norse religion.

The Idea of Order
The Idea of Order

Author: Richard Bradley

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-10-11

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0199608091

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Bradley's volume uses archaeological evidence to investigate the creation, use, and ultimate demise of circular architecture in prehistoric Europe. Concerned mainly with the prehistoric period from the origins of farming to the early first millennium AD, it considers the role of circular features across a wide geographical spectrum.

Ancient Scandinavia
Ancient Scandinavia

Author: T. Douglas Price

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-06-12

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 0190231998

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Scandinavia, a land mass comprising the modern countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, was the last part of Europe to be inhabited by humans. Not until the end of the last Ice Age when the melting of huge ice sheets left behind a fresh, barren land surface, about 13,000 BC, did the first humans arrive and settle in the region. The archaeological record of these prehistoric cultures, much of it remarkably preserved in Scandinavia's bogs, lakes, and fjords, has given us a detailed portrait of the evolution of human society at the edge of the inhabitable world. In this book, distinguished archaeologist T. Douglas Price provides a history of Scandinavia from the arrival of the first humans to the end of the Viking period, ca. AD 1050. The first book of its kind in English in many years, Ancient Scandinavia features overviews of each prehistoric epoch followed by illustrative examples from the region's rich archaeology. An engrossing and comprehensive picture of change across the millennia emerges, showing how human society evolved from small bands of hunter-gatherers to large farming communities to the complex warrior cultures of the Bronze and Iron Ages, cultures which culminated in the spectacular rise of the Vikings at the end of the prehistoric period. The material evidence of these past societies--arrowheads from reindeer hunts, megalithic tombs, rock art, beautifully wrought weaponry, Viking warships--give vivid testimony to the ancient peoples of Scandinavia and to their extensive contacts with the remote cultures of the Arctic Circle, Western Europe, and the Mediterranean