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June 17, 2014

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...

June 17, 2014

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 ...

June 17, 2014

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...

June 17, 2014

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...

June 17, 2014

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...

June 17, 2014

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...

June 17, 2014

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...

June 17, 2014

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 ...

June 17, 2014

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...

June 17, 2014

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...

June 17, 2014

2012 - In the shadow of Rome - Roman cultural influence in the Nordic countries - Kent Andersson

In the 1st millennium AD, the Nordic region was influenced in various ways by the superpower of the time: the Roman Empire. In order to...

June 17, 2014

2011 - Refined rooms - Olle Wilson - Uppsala University, Sweden

The purpose of the thesis "Refined spaces, gas stations and precision culture in Sweden 1926-1956" is to investigate an architectural idiom based on the conditions of the gasoline trade...