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Jarl Gallén
Jarl Wilhelm Erik Gallén (23 May 1908 – 27 March 1990) was a Finland, Finnish historian and Swedish-speaking professor in history at Helsinki University from 1964 to 1975. Biography Gallén was born in Helsinki in 1908. He had an interest in history from a young age. Gallén became a student in 1925, bachelor of philosophy in 1929, master of arts in 1932, licentiate in 1946 and doctor in 1947. During his studies he converted to Catholicism and founded Academicum Catholicum, of which he was president from 1936 to 1946. He took an active part in debates on ideology and politics and helped found the student society, and served as editor of the student newspaper from 1930 to 1932, where he made a name for himself as a pugnacious and combative right-wing debater. In the 1930s, Gallén became an active member of the White Guard (Finland), White Guard, and during the war he advanced to the rank of Major (rank), major. During the Winter War, he was first a reconnaissance officer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and transitioned into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages. Population decline, counterurbanisation, the collapse of centralized authority, invasions, and mass migrations of tribes, which had begun in late antiquity, continued into the Early Middle Ages. The large-scale movements of the Migration Period, including various Germanic peoples, formed new kingdoms in what remained of the Western Roman Empire. In the 7th century, North Africa and the Middle East—most recently part of the Eastern Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akademiska Bokhandeln
The Academic Bookstore ( Finnish: , Swedish: ) is a Finnish chain of bookstores. It has both physical outlets as well as an online presence. Stockmann sold the chain in 2015 to Bonnier Group. Originally founded as an independent chain, it was bought out by Stockmann in 1930. Its revenue in 2015 was about 40 million euros. History The Academic Bookstore was founded in 1893. Its founders included and . Its goal was "to serve equally the needs of researchers and the general public, and which, fairly looking after the interests of domestic publishing, working to establish faster and more secure links with the foreign book market". The first store was located on Aleksanterinkatu in Helsinki. In 1901 the bookstore moved to a new location on the same street, enabling it to sell 1200 titles simultaneously. Another move was made in 1910. Stockmann bought the Academic Bookstore in 1930. The new owner soon moved it to the new Stockmann department store at Helsinki centre. In 1969 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Söderströms Förlag
Söderströms Förlags Ab is a Finnish Swedish-language publishing company, founded in 1891 by publisher Werner Söderström. Gustaf Leopold Söderström had started a printing company and publishing house in 1860, Söderström & Co. His son, Werner Söderström, who had been had been active as a publisher since 1878, took over his father's publishing business in 1888. In 1891 he decided to divide his Swedish- and Finnish-language publishing activities between two corporations. The Finnish part became Werner Söderströms (commonly referred to as WSOY) while the Swedish part was sold to Förlags AB Söderström in order to allow him to concentrate on the Finnish publishing. In 2012, Förlags AB Söderström merged with Schildts to form Schildts & Söderströms Schildts & Söderströms is a Finnish book publisher, which was established in February 2012 through a merger between Schildts Förlags Ab and Söderström & Co. The publisher is based in Helsinki. Its first managi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nylands Nation
Nylands Nation (NN) is one of the 15 student nations at the University of Helsinki, Finland's oldest, Swedish-speaking and established in 1643 at The Royal Academy of Turku. In 1828, the Academy moved to Helsinki taking the name "University" and Nylands Nation moved there along with the other Nations. Since 1904 the house of Nylands Nation, a building designed by Karl Hård af Segerstad, has stood at Kasarmikatu 40. Friendship nations Nylands nation has close connections with a number of student nations and fraternities at several foreign universities. Uppsala * Södermanlands-Nerikes nation * Värmlands nation * Västgöta nation Lund * Wermlands nation Linköping * Wermlands nation Copenhagen * Studenterforeningen vid Kobenhavns universitet Oslo * Det norske studentersamfund Stockholm * Humanistiska föreningen vid Stockholms universitet Berlin * VBSt Lysistrata Marburg * Marburger Burschenschaft Arminia Tartu * Korporatsioon Filiae Patriae * Korporatsioon Ugala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Liepe
Lena Liepe, born 1962, is a Swedish art historian, who since 2017 is professor in art history at Linnaeus University, Sweden. She has worked at the University of Lund, Sweden, University of Tromsø, Norway and University of Oslo, Norway. Her main research areas are medieval art history, art theory and method, genus perspective on medieval art, and icelandic medieval illuminated manuscripts. In her research she has focused on how museums in Sweden grew out of 19th century displays of medieval church art, and for the moment she completes a major work on the importance of relics in medieval church art. Her broad approach to the studies of medieval art and illuminations have had a deep impact in the Nordic research in the different areas she has covered, and she has also been recognized internationally. She is a member of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Os ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Andrén
Anders Andrén (born 1952) is professor of archaeology at the University of Stockholm. He was the holder of the Dalrymple lectureship in archaeology at the University of Glasgow in 2003 and is a member of the boards of the Danish Graduate School in Archaeology and the Nordic Graduate School in Archaeology. Stockholm University. Retrieved 28 December 2018. Selected publications * "Behind Heathendom: Archaeological Studies of Old Norse Religion", ''Scottish Archaeological Journal'', Vol. 27 (2007), No 2, pp. 105–138. * ''Det medeltida Gotland: En arkeologisk guidebok'' (Ed.) (2011) * "Places, Monuments, and Objects The Past in Ancient Scandinavia", ''Scandinavian Studies'', Vol. 85 (2013), No. 3, pp. 267–281. * "The significance of places: the Christianization of Scandinavia from a spatial point of ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sverre Bagge
Sverre Håkon Bagge (born 7 August 1942 in Bergen) is a Norwegian historian. He took his doctorate with the thesis ''Den politiske ideologi i Kongespeilet'', published in 1979. From 1974 to 1991 he worked as an associate professor (''førsteamanuensis'') at the University of Bergen, and he became a professor there in 1991. Since 2003 he is the leader of the Centre for Medieval Studies, Bergen. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Unive .... Selected bibliography *''Cross and Scepter: The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation'', 2014 *''From Viking Stronghold to Christian Kingdom: State Formation in Norway, c. 900-1350'', 2010 *''Den politiske ideologi i Kongespeilet'', 1979 *''Høymi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medieval Studies
Medieval studies is the academic interdisciplinary study of the Middle Ages. Institutional development The term 'medieval studies' began to be adopted by academics in the opening decades of the twentieth century, initially in the titles of books like G. G. Coulton's ''Ten Medieval Studies'' (1906), to emphasize a greater interdisciplinary approach to a historical subject. In American and European universities the term provided a coherent identity to centres composed of academics from a variety of disciplines including archaeology, art history, architecture, history, literature and linguistics. The Institute of Mediaeval Studies at St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto became the first centre of this type in 1929; it is now the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS) and is part of the University of Toronto. It was soon followed by the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, which was founded in 1946 but whose roots go back to the establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Swedish Crusade
The Second Swedish Crusade was a possible 13th-century Swedish military expedition against the Tavastians, in present-day Finland, led by Birger Jarl. Many details of the Crusade are debated. After the crusade, Tavastia gradually started to fall under the rule of the Catholic Church and the Swedish kingdom. Background Sweden had been starting to exert control over Finland at least since the beginning in the 13th century, starting with Finland proper. In 1220, Sweden tried to join in on the Baltic Crusades, but could not hold on to their foothold in Estonia. There are notes of Swedish churchmen, possibly led by Finland's bishop Thomas, being present in Tavastia ca 1230, and papal letters deplored how slowly Christianity gained ground in Finland. There was apparently a backlash against the missionaries (the Häme insurrection), and in 1237, Pope Gregory IX sent out a call for the Swedes to take up arms in a crusade against the "apostates and barbarians". Sources All details ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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