Provides the meticulous reconstruction and comprehensive analysis of the 17th century shipwreck of Vasa and her rigging, shedding valuable light on the Age of Sail seamanship.When Vasa was raised in...

Contemporary media history is a rapidly growing field that extends far beyond traditional studies of technology or institutions such as radio, film, and television. This volume expands the scope further...

Historical actors are as central to the history of knowledge as to all historical scholarship. Every country, every era has its biographies of eminent scientists, intellectuals, and educational reformers....

In this carefully curated volume, internationally renowned historians have come together to explore the interconnected perspectives of gender, materiality, and politics.

Literary scholar Camilla Storskog investigates how classics with Scandinavian orgin have been reinterpreted as comics. The adaptations have been neglected, and Storskog shows how literary works, plays, and films have crossed boundaries of language and media, speaking to new new contexts with their own aesthetic, technical, and narrative qualities.

Constant change and expansion have been the hallmarks of Swedish art history as an academic discipline since the first university chairs were established a hundred years ago. The contributors elaborate on art history research and teaching at Swedish universities, but also at related institutions.

The sea has many faces. Some are calm and welcoming, others ferocious and death-dealing. For centuries of human history, the sea has seen peaceful trade and war, life and death and failure. In Facing the Sea we meet Swedish experiences of the sea.

The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail relying mainly on Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages.