Author: Else Roesdahl
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ISBN: 9788772884356
Category : Europe
Languages : da
Pages : 240
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For centuries, the Viking age has exerted a fascination on European art and literature through, for example, sagas, Norse mythology and runes. The enigmatic Northerners were romanticised by 18th-century poets, dresssed up by 19th-century painters, and misused to serve the propagandistic purposes of 20th-century National Socialism, which saw itself as the legitimate heir to a mythical Germanic past. This collection of essays in English and Scandinavian languages has its origins in a 1993 symposium on The Scandinavian Past in European Culture. Through case studies of different periods, the authors trace the influence of Scandinavia's heroic past on post-Renaissance France, Germany, Britain, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The title of the book is taken from a famous old Norse Poem, published in English in 1703. Contributors include: Inge Adriansen, Hans Bekker-Nielsen, Francois-Xavier Dillmann, Christine Fell, Pal Hougen, Bo Jansson, Jorgen Hojgaard Jorgensen, Michael Mueller-Wille, Gerd Wolfgang Weber and Sir David Wilson.
Author: Else Roesdahl
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ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : da
Pages : 236
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For centuries, the Viking age has exerted a fascination on European art and literature through, for example, sagas, Norse mythology and runes. The enigmatic Northerners were romanticised by 18th-century poets, dresssed up by 19th-century painters, and misused to serve the propagandistic purposes of 20th-century National Socialism, which saw itself as the legitimate heir to a mythical Germanic past. This collection of essays in English and Scandinavian languages has its origins in a 1993 symposium on The Scandinavian Past in European Culture. Through case studies of different periods, the authors trace the influence of Scandinavia's heroic past on post-Renaissance France, Germany, Britain, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The title of the book is taken from a famous old Norse Poem, published in English in 1703. Contributors include: Inge Adriansen, Hans Bekker-Nielsen, Francois-Xavier Dillmann, Christine Fell, Pal Hougen, Bo Jansson, Jorgen Hojgaard Jorgensen, Michael Mueller-Wille, Gerd Wolfgang Weber and Sir David Wilson.
Author: Bernd Henningsen
Publisher: BWV Verlag
ISBN: 3830517270
Category : Baltic Sea Region
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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The Baltic Sea Region, at the crossroads between East and West, North and South, has long been marked by cultural, ethnical and ideological borders. Overcoming a history of conflict and separation, since the end of the Cold War the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea established widely valued formats of regional cooperation based on shared challenges and opportunities. In comparison with larger regions, however, the Baltic Sea Area is still a blank spot on the global map. This volume's intention is to fill this spot with colour and facts. It provides students, young researchers and other interested parties with basic knowledge of the region. The volume offers a comprehensive introduction into its history, politics, economy and culture, taking into account the various countries' commonalities and differences. By introducing concepts of regionalism and region-building, as well as analysing the structures of regional cooperation the authors and editors demonstrate the Baltic Sea Area's model function as a European macro-region.--Back cover.
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Category : Germanic philology
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Author: Karen Oslund
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295802995
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, however, this marginalized region has gradually become part of modern Europe, a transformation that is narrated in Karen Oslund’s Iceland Imagined. This cultural and environmental history sweeps across the dramatic North Atlantic landscape, exploring its unusual geography, saga narratives, language, culture, and politics, and analyzing its emergence as a distinctive and symbolic part of Europe. The earliest visions of a wild frontier, filled with dangerous and unpredictable inhabitants, eventually gave way to images of beautiful, well-managed lands, inhabited by simple but virtuous people living close to nature. This transformation was accomplished by state-sponsored natural histories of Iceland which explained that the monsters described in medieval and Renaissance travel accounts did not really exist, and by artists who painted the Icelandic landscapes to reflect their fertile and regulated qualities. Literary scholars and linguists who came to Iceland and Greenland in the nineteenth century related the stories and the languages of the “wild North” to those of their home countries.
Author: Bjarne Rogan
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ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : sv
Pages : 336
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Den 28. Nordiske etnologi- og folkloristkongress ble avviklet på Hankø i Østfold i mai 2000. Her foregikk en kritisk diskusjon om fagenes fortid og fremtid, om tradisjoner og praksis, om perspektiver og kunnskapsbasis. Gamle og nye empiriske interessefelt ble brettet ut, metoder og teoretiske innlån i fortid og nåtid ble debattert og vurdert, og fagenes kurs fremover antydet. Det overordnede temaet var "Norden og nordiske fagtradisjoner" med forholdet til Europa og europeisk etnologi som ett av de sentrale fokus. Hva innebærer betegnelsen "europeisk etnologi" og hvordan ser våre europeiske kolleger på oss? Boken inneholder et redigert utvalg av de ca. 70 foredragene på kongressen, inklusive synspunkter fra innbudte forskere fra Tyskland, Frankrike, Estland, England, USA og Israel. Litteraturlister. Norsk, svensk, dansk og engelsk tekst.
Author: D. Favrholdt
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080871089
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 665
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This volume is divided into five parts. The title of the volume refers primarily to part I, which is by far the largest and comprises papers discussing the fundamental questions of biology and related psychological and philosophical problems. Following the reproduction of papers brought to publication by Bohr, there is a separate Appendix to Part I including some of Bohr's most interesting and substantive unpublished contributions in this area. The papers in Part I span the last thirty years of Bohr's life and display his great interest in biological problems and his unremitting efforts to show that biology cannot be reduced to physics and chemistry. Part II contains articles of a more general cultural interest. Some of these show that Bohr regarded the complementary perspective to be of value also outside the scientific sphere. Part III contains the articles Bohr wrote about the great Danish philosopher Harald Høffding. These short papers are presented in a section on their own because of the continuing discussion in the history of science about Høffding's possible influence on Bohr's work in physics and his whole scientific approach. Part IV comprises articles illuminating the history of 20th century physics. Bohr had great veneration for his predecessors and teachers, and he prepared these articles with great care. Part V contains correspondence relating to the material in Parts I through IV. As in previous volumes an inventory of relevant unpublished manuscripts held at the Niels Bohr Archive constitutes an appendix to the whole volume.
Author: Chicago Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Author: Jan Hecker-Stampehl
Publisher: BWV Verlag
ISBN: 3830517815
Category : Baltic Sea Region
Languages : de
Pages : 454
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Hauptbeschreibung An dieser Festschrift zu Ehren Bernd Henningsens, des Vorreiters der politik- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Nordeuropaforschung in Deutschland und langjnhrigen Direktors des Nordeuropa-Instituts an der Humboldt-Universitnt zu Berlin, haben 25 Kollegen, Weggefnhrten und Schler aus sieben Lnndern mitgewirkt. Die vertretenen Aufsntze greifen Facetten von Henningsens Interessen und Fragestellungen in den Feldern politischer Kultur, Geschichtspolitik und Wissenschaftsorganisation auf und demonstrieren anhand von Beispielen aus den skandinavischen Lnndern und den anderen Ostseeanrainern deren anhaltende Relevanz. Der reprnsentativ gestaltete Band wird von einer Vita Henningsens und einem Schriftenverzeichnis abgerundet"
Author: Kerstin Hundahl
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317152735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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Where medieval Denmark and Scandinavia as a whole has often been seen as a cultural backwater that passively and belatedly received cultural and political impulses from Western Europe, Professor Michael H. Gelting and scholars inspired by him have shown that the intellectual, religious and political elite of Denmark actively participated in the renaissance and reformation of the central and later medieval period. This work has wide ramifications for understanding developments in medieval Europe, but so far the discussion has taken place only in Danish-language publications. This anthology brings the latest research in Danish medieval history to a wider audience and integrates it with contemporary international discussions of the making of the European middle ages.
