Göran Tagesson – författare

Onkel Adamsgården på Hunnebergsgatan i Linköping har fått sitt namn efter författaren och läkaren Carl Anton Wetterbergh (1804-1889) som är mer känd som Onkel Adam. Här bodde han tillsammans med sin hustru Hedda och svägerska Adriana, vilka båda skapade den vackra blomstrande trädgården inne på gården. År 1927 öppnades ett museum över honom här och en museilägenhet i husets övervåning inreddes med föremål från hans hem. Med denna bok vill vi väcka gårdens historia till liv igen – byggnader, ägare och människor som bott här – från Måns Flådra på 1640-talet fram till Onkel Adam, som en gång var en av Linköpings och hela Sveriges mest kända personer.

This book is an interdisciplinary study that draws on a combination of archaeological evidence, building archaeological analysis, archival sources to explore the dynamic relations between dwelling houses, social organization of households, and patterns of cohabitation during the eighteenth century.The empirical focus of this book is on Swedish towns, but it also addresses more general issues about urbanity and urban life, space and social organization, and materiality and individual agency. Aggregated questions about urban life and urban space are combined with a micro historical method revealing aspects of daily life and urban change. This study unveils a previously neglected history. Swedish eighteenth century towns have commonly been identified as a territory characterized by its sleepy absence of change. This study proves the opposite. Houses were built larger, with more diverse and complex inner structures. Family structures changed; households generally became smaller, the share of households headed by a married couple declined, and the number of single households increased. Population density increased, the number of families residing in the same house increased, and rental accommodation became more prevalent.This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in early modern housing, urban change, and interdisciplinary methods.

This book is an interdisciplinary study that draws on a combination of archaeological evidence, building archaeological analysis, archival sources to explore the dynamic relations between dwelling houses, social organization of households, and patterns of cohabitation during the eighteenth century.The empirical focus of this book is on Swedish towns, but it also addresses more general issues about urbanity and urban life, space and social organization, and materiality and individual agency. Aggregated questions about urban life and urban space are combined with a micro historical method revealing aspects of daily life and urban change. This study unveils a previously neglected history. Swedish eighteenth century towns have commonly been identified as a territory characterized by its sleepy absence of change. This study proves the opposite. Houses were built larger, with more diverse and complex inner structures. Family structures changed; households generally became smaller, the share of households headed by a married couple declined, and the number of single households increased. Population density increased, the number of families residing in the same house increased, and rental accommodation became more prevalent.This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in early modern housing, urban change, and interdisciplinary methods.

Agency, Micro-History and Built Environment examines how people have been making, using and transforming buildings and built environments in general, and how the buildings have been perceived. It also considers a diversity of built constructions – including dwellings and public buildings, sheds and manor houses, secular and sacral structures. Comparisons between different regions and parts of the globe, important when addressing buildings from a social perspective, are presented with studies from the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Mexico. The chronological framework spans from the classical Byzantine period, over the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period and ends in 20th century Belfast.

Vreta kloster, Flistad, Stjärnorp, Ljung och Allhelgonakyrkan i sitt sammanhang Kyrkan är en nyckel för att förstå historien - en mötesplats för människor i landskapet under tusen år. En korsväg mellan teologi och tro, mellan och döden. En bärare av längtan, tro och hopp. Kyrkorummet är speciellt genom sitt långa tidsperspektiv, som berättar om bygdens historia, om relationer mellan människor, om tro och makt och krass ekonomi men som också speglar det sköna och vackra i konst och arkitektur från olika tidsepoker. Kyrkan, rummet, landskapet är historien om vårt gemensamma kulturarv genom tusen år, speglat genom fem kyrkor i Vreta klosters församling. Var och en av dessa kyrkor har samma budskap men som berättas på olika sätt. Följ med på en resa i ord och bild genom historien - från nutid till framtid, sett genom kyrkorummet. The church is a key to understand history - a meeting place for people in its landscape for over a thousand years. A crossroads of theology and faith, of life and death. A bearer of longing, faith and hope. A church is special for its deep time-perspective. It speaks of the history of its settlement, of people's realtionships to one another, of faith and power and brute economics; and it reflects what is fine and beautiful in the art and architecture of different ages. Church, space and landscape make up the history of our cultural inheritance over a thousand years, mirrored in the five churches of Vreta kloster parish. Every one of these churches has the same mission, but tells its story in a differens way. Come on a journey through history, in word and image - from past to present, and present to future.