The Cambridge History of Scandinavia
The Cambridge History of Scandinavia

Author: Knut Helle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-09-04

Total Pages: 942

ISBN-13: 9780521472999

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This volume presents a comprehensive exposition of both the prehistory and medieval history of the whole of Scandinavia. The first part of the volume surveys the prehistoric and historic Scandinavian landscape and its natural resources, and tells how man took possession of this landscape, adapting culturally to changing natural conditions and developing various types of community throughout the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. The rest - and most substantial part of the volume - deals with the history of Scandinavia from the Viking Age to the end of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (c. 1520). The external Viking expansion opened Scandinavia to European influence to a hitherto unknown degree. A Christian church organisation was established, the first towns came into being, and the unification of the three medieval kingdoms of Scandinavia began, coinciding with the formation of the unique Icelandic 'Free State'.

The Cambridge History of Scandinavia: Volume 2, 1520–1870
The Cambridge History of Scandinavia: Volume 2, 1520–1870

Author: E. I. Kouri

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-24

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1316654044

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Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Scandinavia provides a comprehensive and authoritative account of the Scandinavian countries from the close of the Middle Ages through to the formation of the nation states in the mid-nineteenth century. Beginning in 1520, the opening chapters of the volume discuss the reformation of the Nordic states and the enormous impact this had on the social structures, cultural identities and traditions of individual countries. With contributions from 38 leading historians, the book charts the major developments that unfolded within this crucial period of Scandinavian history. Chapters address topics such as material growth and the centralisation of power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as well as the evolution of trade, foreign policy and client states in the eighteenth century. Volume 2 concludes by discussing the new economic and social orders of the nineteenth century in connection with the emergence of the nation states.

A Concise History of Sweden
A Concise History of Sweden

Author: Neil Kent

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-06-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0521812844

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A comprehensive history of Sweden covering events from the Stone Age onwards.

A History of Scandinavian Theatre
A History of Scandinavian Theatre

Author: Frederick J. Marker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-09-28

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780521392372

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A balanced and authoritative account of the theatrical history of all three Scandinavian countries.

Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama
Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama

Author: Narve Fulsås

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-11-16

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1316992799

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Henrik Ibsen's drama is the most prominent and lasting contribution of the cultural surge seen in Scandinavian literature in the later nineteenth century. When he made his debut in Norway in 1850, the nation's literary presence was negligible, yet by 1890 Ibsen had become one of Europe's most famous authors. Contrary to the standard narrative of his move from restrictive provincial origins to liberating European exile, Narve Fulsås and Tore Rem show how Ibsen's trajectory was preconditioned on his continued embeddedness in Scandinavian society and culture, and that he experienced great success in his home markets. This volume traces how Ibsen's works first travelled outside Scandinavia and studies the mechanisms of his appropriation in Germany, Britain and France. Engaging with theories of book dissemination and world literature, and re-assessing the emergence of 'peripheral' literary nations, this book provides new perspectives on the work of this major figure of European literature and theatre.

The Scandinavian Reformation
The Scandinavian Reformation

Author: Ole Peter Grell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780521441629

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When Martin Luther's protest began making an impact in Scandinavia in the 1520s, this region belonged to the religious and political periphery of Europe. A century later the Nordic countries had become of paramount importance to European Protestantism, and it was the intervention of Lutheran Scandinavia in the Thirty Years' War which helped secure the survival of European Protestantism. This volume describes how the Nordic countries came to be solidly Lutheran states by the early seventeenth century; how the evangelical movements differed and succeeded, and the different pace of reform and its institutionalisation. It offers a revisionist view of the role of the Catholic Church in Scandinavia, and its attempts to halt the reformation, and demonstrates the difficulties facing the new Lutheran churches trying to convert a conservative, peasant population to Protestantism.

A Concise History of Finland
A Concise History of Finland

Author: David Kirby

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-07-13

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 052183225X

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An up-to-date political, social and economic history of Finland from medieval times to the present. David Kirby traces the evolution of Finland's distinctive identity and of the Finnish national state from the long centuries under Swedish rule, through self-government within the Russian Empire, to independence in the twentieth century.

The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 8, Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 8, Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context

Author: Hugh Richard Slotten

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-04-09

Total Pages: 1046

ISBN-13: 1108863353

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This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to exploring the history of modern science using national, transnational, and global frames of reference. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date nondisciplinary history of modern science currently available. Essays are grouped together in separate sections that represent larger regions: Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, and Latin America. Each of these regional groupings ends with a separate essay reflecting on the analysis in the preceding chapters. Intended to provide a balanced and inclusive treatment of the modern world, contributors analyze the history of science not only in local, national, and regional contexts but also with respect to the circulation of knowledge, tools, methods, people, and artifacts across national borders.