Fristående monografier

An der Universität Wittenberg entstand um 1540 eine neue Sitte. Studenten begannen damit, schriftliche Einträge von Melanchthon und anderen Professoren und bald auch von ihren Mitstudenten in kleinen Büchern zu sammeln. Ein solches Büchlein, Album amicorum oder Stammbuch genannt, führten in der Folgezeit nicht nur deutsche, sondern auch schwedische Studenten bei ihrem Aufenthalt an deutschen Unive

In his Tidsbestämning - Dating in the Bronze Age - of 1885, Oscar Montelius published the first detailed and reliable chronology for the Bronze Age of Northern Europe. A hundred years later his results are, in the main, still valid.

Den nordiska arkeologin - historia och tolkningar försöker klarlägga hur den nordiska antikvarianismen och den senare arkeologiska forskningen har tolkat sitt forntida material från 1600-talet till idag. Den teoretiska basen ar Gadamers hermeneutik och begrepp hos Bourdieu och Fleck. Tre faktorer har styrt tolkningarna: arkeologins vetenskapliga och politiska drivkrafter, den arkeologiska forsknin

Margareta Valdemarsdotter (1353-1412), Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, was buried in Roskilde Cathedral. The memory of this powerful and revered sovereign is perpetuated there by the tomb-chest bearing her carved portrait. The golden gown which she according to one tradition wore at her wedding used also to be displayed there.

Some widely beliefs about the goals of medicine are: we know what they are, they have always been the same, and they do not conflict with each other. In this book all these beliefs are questioned. It will be shown that when trying to achieve the ends of medicine at different times old goals have changed and new ones appeared. Between different medical goals tensions and clashes exist which may cau

The Agnes Geijer Foundation for Scandinavian Textile Research History of Footwear in Norway, Sweden and Finland is written and published on the initiative of, and with financial support from, the Agnes Geijer Foundation. The foundation was established by Ph.D. Agnes Geijer (1898-1989), a Swedish scholar of international repute. She was a leading authority not only on Scandinavian textile history,

The formal proceedings for the canonisation of Birgitta Birgersdotter necessitated the production of manuscripts of her Reuelaciones celestes. The task of editing the texts had been entrusted to Alfonso of Jaen, who delivered the finished selection, arranged in seven Books, with additional material to a workshop in the Naples area. The vellum manuscripts, sumptuously produced and beautifully illum

Sommaren 1942 inledde Riksantikvarieämbetet undersökningar i anslutning till vattenkraftsutbyggnaden i Jämtland. Det var startpunkten för ett av kulturminnesvårdens största dokumentationsprojekt under 1900-talet. Från en översiktlig arkeologisk inventering utvecklades verksamheten till en bred kulturhistorisk undersökning med omfattande studier - arkeologiska och etnologiska - av de väldiga område