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Serie: Lund university press
GebondenEngels9789198376869
14-3-2019
This book explores the representation of witchcraft in early modern drama, situating it within the discourse of scepticism and credulity that characterised the witchcraft debate, and the historical events which inspired much witchcraft drama. Meer
GebondenEngels9789198469837
24-3-2020
This book examines subsidies – payments made between sovereigns in return for political and military service – in the early modern period. It explores how such payments shaped diplomacy, princes’ honour, the construction of states and early modern society. Meer
GebondenEngels9789198557701
7-9-2021
This book combines new approaches to Bergman’s films and writings with more traditional analyses of widely acclaimed masterpieces like Smiles of a Summer Night and Fanny and Alexander. Meer
GebondenEngels9789198557732
7-9-2021
This book tells the story of how modern environmentalism emerged at a remarkably early stage in postwar Sweden. It sheds new light on why Sweden took an early lead in global environmental politics and how the country came to host the first UN Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. Meer
GebondenEngels9789198557763
12-7-2022
Vocal expressions in the borderland between song and speech in some Asian, and one Native American, cultures are studied through a new methodology which combines ethnomusicology and linguistics. Meer
GebondenEngels9789198557800
14-5-2024
This book tells the story of how a Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of thousands of Jews in Hungary became a symbol after his disappearance in January 1945. Meer
GebondenEngels9789198557862
21-10-2025
Based on more than thirty years’ fieldwork, this book aims to increase the understanding of music played on elaborate wooden floats which form vital components in Japanese festivals with a religious dimension. Meer
GebondenEngels9789198740400
17-10-2023
This book explores the theme of religious Enlightenment in the Nordic countries during the long eighteenth century. The volume’s fourteen chapters investigate how Lutheran confessional culture became intertwined with Enlightenment ideas and practices. Meer
GebondenEngels9789198740431
24-2-2026
Drawing on a great variety of sources, this book studies the ideological foundations of monarchy as an institution in eighteenth-century Sweden. Its wide scope and inventive method are of interest to anyone interested in early-modern European politics. Meer
GebondenEngels9789198740523
14-10-2025
The interplay between ill health and artistic creativity is demonstrated in fascinating surveys of afflicted artists, composers, and authors and their works. Meer
GebondenEngels9789198376807
3-4-2018
This study shows how the Humboldt gave direction to debates around higher education in Germany and investigates the ways in which his ideas have been appropriated for various purposes in different historical contexts and epochs. Meer
GebondenEngels9789198376838
17-9-2019
Being exposed to large audiences as a villain is a life-changing experience. You may survive, but you will always bear the scars. This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. Meer
GebondenEngels9789198469905
18-8-2020
This study explores the radical shift in notions of incest in Sweden from 1680 to 1940, a period in which the country went from having the strictest laws in Europe to some of the most liberal. Meer
GebondenEngels9789198469936
2-3-2021
Heritopia creatively investigates the meaning of the past in the present, using Abu Simbel and other World Heritage sites as points of departure. It paves the way for a new discourse about pastness, heritage and society. Meer
GebondenEngels9789198469967
19-4-2021
The fourth volume in the Acta Aethiopica series recovers and presents largely unknown original Ethiopian sources for how Ethiopian rulers dealt with the colonial endeavours of European powers in the first half of the 1880s. Meer