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Maps have played a central role in our understanding of what and where the north is. At the same time, the northernmost reaches of our world have, for much of history, been difficult to navigate and verify, from the mythical islands on medieval maps to the itineraries of Arctic explorers in the nineteenth century. This has inspired inventive mapping strategies, as well as ongoing struggles to define what constitutes believable cartographic information.This beautifully illustrated book takes the reader on a journey to examine the rich, and sometimes contentious, history of how mapmakers have understood and processed knowledge about a region they described as ‘the north’. In the process of mapping, the north as a place changed from an inaccessible and vividly imagined unknown to a region claimed and exploited by southern nations. What emerges is a riveting story of exploration, survival and cartographic skill bound up with conceptions of nature, religion and politics extending far beyond the Arctic.
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Den pfalziska ättens sista monark, drottning Ulrika Eleonora (1688 – 1741), kom till makten under en brytningstid för både land och regent. Under hennes regering 1719 – 1720 lades grunderna för det frihetstida statsskicket och drottningens myndighet inskränktes radikalt. Fram träder dock en kvinna med nedärvd känsla för sin dynasti och för kungamaktens höghet. Den makt Ulrika Eleonora hade kvar utövade hon till fullo. En av hennes mest uppmärksammade insatser var det sensationella antalet utdelade adelskap. Ulrika Eleonora adlade 182 personer under loppet av tolv månader. Dessutom upphöjdes 48 adelsmän till friherrar och 15 friherrar blev grevar. Detta var ett av de mest beständiga, och mest kontroversiella, beslut hon verkställde vid sin tid på tronen. Vad förklarar då Ulrika Eleonoras beryktade massadlande? Vilka var drottningens adelsmän och hur gick det till när de adlades? Historikern Joakim Scherp tecknar en bild av drottningen och den nya adeln under det dramatiska skeendet då envälde gick över i frihetstid. Historikern Charlotta Forss kompletterar berättelsen med ett tiotal biografier av nyadlade med skilda yrken och olika bakgrund, både kända och okända män – och en kvinna.
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The understanding of what health is and how it can be maintained has changed through history. Questions like who can perform healing? and what sort of bodies are considered healthy? have elicited widely divergent responses in different societies. This volume explores how health was understood and practiced in the early modern Nordic region, with a focus on Sweden, including Finland. The chapters examine topics such as the dyslexia of Charles XI, lay perceptions of bodily and mental variability, and the health benefits attributed to using the sauna. Together, the essays give a holistic view of how practices of health evolved in close symmetry with societal institutions and localised worldviews. As such, the volume is a timely intervention into the social history of medicine, contributing to the historicisation of health as a concept and shedding light on developments in the Nordic world.
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This volume explores how health was understood and practiced in the early modern Nordic region, with a focus on Sweden, including Finland.
The old, the new and the unknown : the continents and the making of geographical knowledge in seventeenth-century Sweden
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
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This thesis investigates early modern ways of looking at the world through an analysis of what the continents meant in three settings of knowledge making in seventeenth-century Sweden. Combining text, maps and images, the thesis analyses the meaning of the continents in, first, early modern scholarly ‘geography’, second, accounts of journeys to the Ottoman Empire and, third, accounts of journeys to the colony New Sweden. The investigation explores how an understanding of conceptual categories such as the continents was intertwined with processes of making and presenting knowledge. In this, the study combines approaches from conceptual history with research on knowledge construction and circulation in the early modern world. The thesis shows how geographical frameworks shifted between settings. There was variation in what the continents meant and what roles they could fill. Rather than attribute this flexibility to random variation or mistakes, this thesis interprets flexibility as an integral part of how the world was conceptualized. Religious themes, ideas about societal unities, definitions of old, new and unknown knowledge, as well as practical considerations, were factors that in different way shaped what the continents meant. A scheme of continents – usually consisting of the entities ‘Africa,’ ‘America,’ ‘Asia,’ ‘Europe’ and the polar regions – is a part of descriptions about what the world looks like today. In such descriptions, the continents are often treated as existing outside of history. However, like other concepts, the meaning and significance of these concepts have changed drastically over time and between contexts. This fact is a matter of importance for historians, but equally so for a wider public using geographical categories to understand the world. Concepts such as the continents may describe what the world looks like, yet they can create both boundaries and affiliations far beyond land and sea. Charlotta Forss is a historian at Stockholm University. This is her doctoral thesis.