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Den 8 augusti 1661 utfärdade rikskanslern Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie order till sina anställda om att en fullständig omgestaltning av huvudbyggnaden och trädgården på Venngarn skulle inledas. Projektet tillhörde den samlade byggnadsplaneringen för hela De la Gardies godsbestånd. Överallt skulle godsen förses med nyuppförda eller moderniserade huvudbyggnader och anslutande lustträdgårdar. Magnus G

The essays in this volume explore the intersection between literature, theology and religion in the writings of the awardwinning American novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson. The first section, On Theology, centres around Robinson’s theology from the perspectives of poetics, science, and history.

The Swedish province of Östergötland is one of Scandinavia's breadbaskets, with an archaeological and historical record that speaks of great wealth through the ages. The province has long been recognised as one of the first millennium's political hot spots. Splendid single finds, though never before surveyed comprehensively, offer a rough idea of where elite settlements might be sought. But little

This volume contains 16 papers on problems about meaning and interpretation. The themes treated range from general philosophical issues concerning meaning and interpretation to more specific questions about interpretation of historical events, Biblical texts and statutory law. Three themes that receive much attention in several papers are: the objectivity and normativity of meaning, the reading an

De tio bidragen i denna volym är resultatet av ett symposium om diplomater och deras berättelser från resor eller stationeringsorter som hölls på Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien 2021.

The eighteenth century, in which the Royal Academy of Letters was created in Stockholm, was a time of intense political discussion. Concepts such as human rights and social equality were beginning to take shape in Europe and North America. Critical views spread through a variety of media which undermined the power structures of the Old Regime, gossip, newspapers, libels, memoirs, chroniques scanda

IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES in Stockholm is preserved the largest collection of medieval manuscript fragments in Northern Europe, around 22 500 book fragments taken from more than 6 000 manuscripts. All of them were used as wrappers of accounts of the local and central administration of King Gustavus Vasa and his sons ca 1540-1630. A project of cataloguing these fragments has been recently completed

The primary material essentially consisting of church doors with ornamental, symbolig and apotropaic representations in wrought iron is accounted for in a catalogue comprising 536 items and illustrated by 1120 photos and drawings. The catalogue is supplemented with a reasoned exposition consisting of: a regional survey of Swedish ironwork, a comparison with ironwork from the rest of Europe, an ico

Napoleon må vara omstridd, men ännu kittlar han fantasin. Utställningen på Skånelaholm inför 200-årsminnet av slaget vid Waterloo visar hans skicklighet att utnyttja konst och propaganda för att bygga legender kring den egna personen. Nederlaget vid Waterloo förändrade därvidlag ingenting. Inte heller fångenskapen på Sankt Helena. Fil.