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2012 - The Bronze Age of Misterhult - Michael Dahlin - Linnaeus University
The aim of the project is to analyze and discuss the Bronze Age of Misterhult, one of the largest concentrations of Bronze Age remains on the east coast. The emphasis...
2012 - The web of weaponry. Animal ornamentation and skaldic poetry in a long-term perspective, ca 350-1150 AD. - Maria Domeij Lundborg - Lund University
Scandinavian animal ornamentation was the most characteristic imagery of the Late Iron Age. It was produced from the late 300s to the mid-12th century. Despite a...
2012 - Flyinge - Hippology from the Middle Ages to the Present - Ingvar Fredricson
The project concerns the printing of a book on the Scandinavian cultural heritage of Flyinge. As early as the 12th century, there was a Danish archbishopric with...
2012 - Laurentius, the patron saint of Lund Cathedral - "Laurentius Patronus Ecclesiae Cathedralis Lundensis" - Louise Brodin
Lund Cathedral, the seat of the Archbishop of Lund, was the main cathedral of the Catholic Church in the Nordic countries during the Middle Ages. It was built at ...
2012 - Vilhelm Lundström and Rome - a biographical project - Anna Blennow
The project aims to compile a biography of Vilhelm Lundström (1869-1940), the first professor of Latin at the University of Gothenburg, and...
2012 - Publication of the interdisciplinary volume Byzantine Gardens and Beyond - Helena Bodin - Uppsala University, Sweden
In the interdisciplinary anthology Byzantine Gardens and Beyond, an international group of scholars from different disciplinary traditions contribute to the study of...
2012 - Project Magnus Ladulås - Lin Annerbäck - Medieval Museum
In spring 2012, the project group opened Karl Knutsson's grave in Riddarholm Church. Modern analytical methods showed that Magnus Ladulås is not among the...
2012 - Research costs - Nils-Göran Areskoug
Nordic Arena for Strategic Dialogue: Development of a virtual platform for knowledge integration. Against the backdrop of worrying trends of increasing disintegration...
2012 - Size as strategy II. On manipulations in the small and the large during the Late Iron Age in Sweden - Ing-Marie Back Danielsson - Stockholm University
The project aims to gain a new and deeper understanding of why size manipulations in both the small and large...
2012 - Investigation of Ås monastery - Christer Andersson - Hallands länsmuseer
In the Viskan river valley about 15 km north of Varberg, in the Middle Ages there was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1194 by ...
2012 - Sotenäs Company 1727-1901 - Lars Andreasson - Bohuslän Defense Museum
Since 1992, former officers of the defunct Bohuslän Regiment have been conducting voluntary research in consultation with local history and genealogy researchers...
2012 - Stones and people: Vendelian and Viking picture stones from Gotland - Alexander Andreeff - University of Gothenburg
My thesis deals with the late Vendelian and early Viking Age Gotlandic picture stones. The image stones constitute a rich source material for studies of the relationship...