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Scandinavia and the 1968 International Year for Human Rights Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Rasmus S. Søndergaard
The article explores the Scandinavian countries’ contributions to the United Nations’ 1968 International Year for Human Rights (IYHR) based on archival research in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. It t...
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Going Beyond the Tropes of ‘Friendship’ and ‘Modernization’: Internal Colonialism in Siam and Scandinavia in the Age of Empire Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Søren Ivarsson, Preedee Hongsaton, Karin Zackari
This article contributes to a reconceptualization of the relationship between Siam and Scandinavia at the turn of the twentieth century. At that time, the relationship was manifested by the presenc...
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The 1975 Icelandic ‘Women’s day off’ in Nordic print media Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Heidi Kurvinen, Valgerður Pálmadóttir
In October 1975, the Icelandic women’s movement organized a ‘Women’s Day Off’ (WDO), a one-day strike designed to reveal the societal importance of women’s work. In this article, we explore media c...
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Cold War conduct: knowledge transfer, psychological defence, and media preparedness in Denmark between Sweden, Norway, and NATO, 1954–1967 Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Rosanna Farbøl, Iben Bjørnsson, Marie Cronqvist
Employing the Foucauldian term ‘conduct’, this article explores how social resilience and morale became a target of state intervention in Denmark during the Cold War. ‘Psychological defence’ was a ...
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Talking about violence: bloody stories and colonialism in Sápmi, ca. 1600–1900 Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Sami Lakomäki
From the seventeenth century well into the twentieth violent stories depicting ancient conflicts between the Sámi and their neighbours circulated widely in and around Sápmi. Narratives about battle...
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Fever, sun, and blood: sermons, amulets, and incantations as sources for magical practices in Medieval Europe Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Clara Dalsgaard
This paper presents a novel method to access lived religion and magical practices of a Medieval congregation via sermons combined with material culture. Previously, scholars have dismissed sermons ...
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Exploiting the “white coal” of the Pasvik River. Negotiating corporate and national interests in the border region during the German occupation of Norway Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Kari Aga Myklebost, Maria Lähteenmäki
The history of the Pasvik River, demarcating Norway’s border with Russia in the north is inextricably linked with issues of security and national interests on the one side, and exploitation of natu...
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From criminal radicalism to gay and lesbian lobbyism: a transnational approach to the Scandinavian homophile movement, 1948–1971 Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Peter Edelberg
This article describes and analyzes the development of the three Scandinavian national associations for homo- and bisexuals from their founding in 1948 through 1971. This is the first time these as...
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From the Will of God to the Will of Hauge: Institutionalization of beliefs and practices in the Norwegian Haugian movement Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Jostein Garcia de Presno
This article traces the informal institutionalization of the Norwegian Haugian revival during the first decades of the nineteenth century. The revival was the first nationwide popular movement in N...
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Genealogy, gender, and memory culture in late medieval Sweden: the chronicle of Anna Fickesdotter Bülow Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Margaretha Nordquist
Anna Fickesdotter Bülow (1440s–1519), abbess of the Birgittine Vadstena Abbey in Sweden, was also the author of Chronicon Genealogicum (c. 1515), a genealogical narrative of aristocratic families i...
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Creating informal European integration by travelling? Swedish and Finnish travel reminiscences of Interrail travel 1972–1993 Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Mikko Manka
The Interrail rail ticket offer, created in 1972, established a new travel platform for young people to meet their peers in Europe. This article examines how Interrail youth travel enabled sociable...
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Our ancestors: the Cimbri, Goths and Sarmatians. Three ethnogenetic legends in early modern Europe Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Krystyna Szelągowska
The study presented here is an attempt at a comparative analysis of three early modern phenomena in the history of ideas and culture: three ethnogenetic theories about the origins of the Swedish (G...
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An unfinished suffrage reform. Voting rights in Sweden after the ‘democratic breakthrough’ Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Fia Sundevall, Annika Berg, Bengt Sandin
This article examines the complex and non-linear process of democratization in Sweden after the introduction of so-called universal suffrage in 1921. The research questions address the excluded gro...
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“Insolent, quarrelsome, noisey and troublesome”: women’s street fights and noise in St Barthélemy in 1835 Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Ale Pålsson
Like many port cities in the 19th-century Caribbean, the free port of Gustavia in the Swedish-Caribbean colony of St Barthélemy had a high ratio of women to men, many of whom were enslaved women or...
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Willingness to Defend and Foreign Policy in Sweden and Finland from the Early Cold War Period to the 2010s Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Teemu Häkkinen, Miina Kaarkoski
The actions of a state in foreign policy are often linked to the capabilities or forms of strength available to its government, including the organization of defence with civilian support. This con...
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A Cinderella story: fashion, foot worship and foot moralism in Sweden, 1850–1900 Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Leif Runefelt
The article discusses the female beauty ideal of the small foot in the Swedish press during the second half of the nineteenth century, as an object for the male gaze in fiction, as an actual fashio...
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Material politics: approaching welfare history through urban water in 20th-century Denmark Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Mikkel Høghøj, Mikkel Thelle
This article proposes the concept of ‘material politics’ as an analytical category for the field of Nordic welfare history. We suggest that our understanding of welfare as a socio-cultural and hist...
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Antisemitism without Jews: the Impact of Redemptive Antisemitism in Norway before the Nazi Occupation Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Nicola Karcher, Kjetil Braut Simonsen
In his magnus opus Nazi Germany and the Jews (1997), Saul Friedländer identifies redemptive antisemitism as a model of world explanation, which offers a universal answer to all alleged problems of ...
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The Danish Economy, 1973–2009: From National Welfare State to International Market Economy Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-26 Niels Kærgård
A number of long-term trends in the Danish economy changed around 1973. The decades before were characterized by the establishment of a welfare state with a high level of social security and an opt...
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‘For Their Own Good’: Examining ‘Gentle’ Colonialism and Finnish Exceptionalism Within Narratives of Finland’s Indigenous Residential Schools Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Lindsay Elizabeth Doran
Scholarship of Indigenous residential school systems is complex, fraught with cultural trauma, and receiving renewed public attention due to numerous global discoveries of mass child graves upon id...
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The Why, what, and How, of History Education in Norwegian and Swedish History Curricula for Upper secondary schools (approximately 1920–1960) Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Anne Helene Høyland Mork
History curricula are shaped by factors such as historiography, pedagogical ideals, political goals, international initiatives, and broader societal conditions and processes. This article examines ...
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Runaway Serfs in 17th-Century Estland and Livland Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Peeter Tammisto
Adscripti glebae is a condition where peasants legally belong to a particular landholding. Its purpose was to maintain a stable labour force at the disposal of the landholder. Peasants who did not ...
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The Low Country Saints of the Næstved Calendar Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Synnøve Midtbø Myking
The Næstved Calendar (Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, E don. var. 52 2º), an illuminated manuscript produced at the Benedictine monastery of St Peder at Næstved (also called Skovkloster) ca. 1...
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The case of Adam Jacobsen. Enslavement in eighteenth-century Norway Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Hanne Østhus
ABSTRACT The article explores the life of Adam Jacobsen, an enslaved man who was trafficked from the Danish West Indies to the small town of Arendal in southern Norway sometime around 1780. By using the micro-spatial perspective the article aims to investigate how Jacobsen and others who were trafficked from America, Africa and Asia to Europe were understood within the broader processes of marketization
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Scandinavism through Dutch and Flemish eyes Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Tim van Gerven
This article analyses the reception of Scandinavism in the Dutch and Flemish press from the start of the nineteenth century and up to the end of World War I. It demonstrates that increasing knowled...
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Ideological and pragmatic transformations: the adoption of neoliberal ideas by Finnish and Swedish conservative parties since the 1970s Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Ilkka Kärrylä
The article examines the extent to which Finnish and Swedish conservative parties adopted neoliberal ideas from the 1970s onwards. It does so by comparing their published programmes and contextuali...
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How to Be(come) the Perfect Inmate? Working the System in the Prison Workhouse at Christianshavn, 1769–1789 Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Emilie Luther Valentin
Between 1769 and 1789, the warden of the prison workhouse at Christianshavn wrote around 300 statements to accompany petitions made for inmates’ release. Drawing on the theories of Arlie Russell Ho...
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Counter-Revolutionary Strikebreaking in Interwar Europe, 1918–1929: The Role of Norway, Christopher Fougner, and Samfundshjelpen Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Nathaniël Kunkeler
This article explores the Counter-Revolution beyond the violent paramilitary reaction in Central- and Eastern Europe in 1918–1921. To this end it looks at the case study of Norway, and the organiza...
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Carceral Chains: Pathways through a Convict Labour Institution, 1690–1830 Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Johan Heinsen
This article examines early modern convicts’ experiences of extramural penal labour institutions – known in their time as slaveries. It centres on Denmark’s main slaveries in Copenhagen and analyse...
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A bank in a monarchy: an early modern anomaly? The Swedish Bank of the Estates of the Realm Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Christopher Pihl
This article aims to analyse credit as a core element in the political changes and processes of state formation that took place in Sweden in the second half of the seventeenth-century. The study fo...
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Voices of the forests. Eviction, control, and the birth of the ‘Parish Lapp’ system in early modern Sweden Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Jonas Monié Nordin, Sven Olofsson
ABSTRACT This paper examines the birth of the exploitative sockenlappssystemet (the ‘Parish Lapp’ system) in central Sweden during the early eighteenth century. Based on a foundation of control and eviction instituted in earlier laws, the 1720s saw a forceful rise in royal concern over the existence of nomadic Sámi in central Sweden. His Majesty King Fredrik I specifically expressed fear of damage
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Labour and Coercion in the Nordic Region in the Early Modern Period: Connections, Ambiguities, Practices Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Johan Heinsen, Vilhelm Vilhelmsson, Hanne Østhus
This introduction discusses the constitutive role played by various practices of coercion within a range of labour relations across the Nordic region in the early modern period. In recent years a g...
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Contracted Coercion: Land, Labour and Gender in the Swedish Crofter Institution Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Carolina Uppenberg
In the early modern rural setting, labour was organized with varying degrees of coercion depending on landowning, social standing, and gender. This article analyses the crofter institution, charact...
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Cutting colonial losses: imperial ideology in media coverage of the 1878 transfer of Saint Barthélemy in Sweden and France Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 John L. Hennessey
During the last several decades, important new research has been published on the Swedish Caribbean colony of Saint Barthélemy, but this has almost exclusively focused on its early years, during th...
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The Voice of Business in Denmark’s Neoliberal Turn Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Julian Lamberty, Jeppe Nevers
ABSTRACT Many historians have argued that the Nordic welfare societies underwent a major transformation in the later decades of the 20th century, and neoliberalism has been identified as a key driver of this transformation. This article contributes to this field of contemporary history as it addresses the rhetoric and role of organized business in Denmark’s neoliberal turn, focusing especially on the
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Inventing the Grand Duchy of Finland in the 1580s: early modern state formation or medieval patterns of expressing the power Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Kimmo Katajala
ABSTRACT In 1581 King John III of Sweden added Grand Duke of Finland to his royal title. Traditionally, this has been seen as marking the Swedish army”s victories in the Swedish-Russian war, as challenging the power and rule of Grand Duke of Muscovy Ivan IV or explained in the context of early modern state formation. This article seeks to understand the logic of taking the title of grand duke as a
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Between deplorable anachronism and valuable heritage. The persistence of the Swedish fideikommiss institution, 1810–1964 Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Magnus Bergman, Martin Dackling
In this article, we seek to explain why the Swedish fideikommiss persisted for so long after their equivalents had been abolished elsewhere in Europe. We do this by analysing sources pertaining to ...
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Boundaries of the nation: “the Jew” in the Swedish press, ca. 1810–1840 Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Jens Carlesson Magalhães
ABSTRACT This article explores representations of Jews and different ways of how ‘the Jew’ was used and mediated in the Swedish press in relation to the idea of the Swedish nation during the period 1810–1840. Based on Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of ‘the conceptual Jew’, this article explores how ‘the Jew’ was used to define identities in the emerging Swedish nation. Implicitly, discussions about ‘the
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Contested Households: Lodgers, Labour, and the Law in Rural Iceland in the Early 19th Century Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Vilhelm Vilhelmsson
The historiography of labour in pre-industrial Iceland has commonly portrayed it first and foremost as life-cycle service in rural households and has suggested that, in a European context, the Icel...
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Teaching and family: either or both? Work and family among women primary school teachers in northern Sweden, c. 1860–1937 Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Emil Marklund
ABSTRACT This study examines the life and career trajectories of teachers recruited to primary schools in coastal northern Sweden. A variety of historical sources are combined to construct collective biographies which include approximately 500 primary school teachers divided in four birth cohorts. Main findings show that women teachers with a teaching certificate came to constitute a majority of the
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A Theory of the Enlightenment in Late Eighteenth-Century Sweden: Nils von Rosenstein and Scotland’s Science of Man and Politics Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Max Skjönsberg
ABSTRACT Nils von Rosenstein’s Försök til en afhandling om uplysningen, til dess beskaffenhet, nytta och nödvändighet för samhället (An Attempt at a Dissertation on the Enlightenment, its Character, Usefulness and Necessity for Society), published in 1793, presents an unusually comprehensive theory of ‘the Enlightenment’ (Upplysningen) from a contemporary of the period. This article explores the impact
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The last hunger years? The 1826–1832 mortality crisis in Denmark Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Mathias Mølbak Ingholt
ABSTRACT From 1826 and the six years following, Denmark underwent a severe mortality crisis. The conventional understanding is that it was caused by a malaria epidemic, although recent literature has challenged this. This study examines the demographic and clinical features of this mortality crisis to understand it further. The crisis began in Langeland in 1826 and spread throughout most of Zealand
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Banal placemaking: spatial conceptions in an Icelandic provincial newspaper in the 1880s Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Harald Gustafsson
ABSTRACT Drawing theoretic inspiration from the spatial turn within humanities, this article attempts to develop methods for studying placemaking in news media. This is done by a case study of the newspaper Þjóðviljinn, published in Ísafjörður, Iceland, in the late nineteenth century. The concept ‘banal placemaking’ is suggested for the kinds of spatial conceptions that occur in the paper without the
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The cost of normalization: the thalidomide affected and the welfare state Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Maria Bjorkman
ABSTRACT This article analyses how economic support and social benefits for thalidomide-affected children were negotiated and organized by both public and private actors in 1960s Sweden. Accounts from various archives are used to analyse how two different but coexisting understandings of disability – as a medical and a social problem – both influenced and underpinned not only the rehabilitation of
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The Earldom of Orkney, the Duchy of Schleswig and the Kalmar Union in 1434 Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Ian Peter Grohse, Stefan Magnussen
ABSTRACT In August 1434, Erik VII, king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, confirmed William Sinclair as earl of Orkney, thus ending a decade-long dispute over the hereditary nature of that island fief. Although surviving sources pertaining to Orkney tell us little about Erik VII’s motives, historians have traditionally pointed to circumstances in and around the isles to explain the king’s acknowledgement
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Correction Notice Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-17
Published in Scandinavian Journal of History (Vol. 47, No. 4, 2022)
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Correction Notice Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-17
Published in Scandinavian Journal of History (Vol. 47, No. 4, 2022)
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Correction Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-17
Published in Scandinavian Journal of History (Vol. 47, No. 4, 2022)
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The rise and fall of ‘propaganda’ as a positive concept: a digital reading of Swedish parliamentary records, 1867–2019 Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Johan Jarlbrink, Fredrik Norén
ABSTRACT Based on digital readings of all records from the Swedish parliament 1867–2019, we examine how the concept ‘propaganda’ was used in the debates. To track the concept, we have extracted word window co-occurrences, bigrams, and keywords. Research on the history of propaganda in liberal democracies has emphasized that the meaning of the concept was open-ended before WWI. By 1945, it had been
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From revolutionary paroles to democratic rhetoric: replacement of the political vocabulary within the Norwegian Labour Party in the interwar period Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Kristina Krake
ABSTRACT This article examines the Norwegian Labour Party’s political language in the interwar period to uncover the relationship of its contentious shifts in political strategy and rhetoric. This is done through a quantitative and qualitative empirical case study of Labour’s use of the two concepts, ‘revolution’ and ‘democracy’. The findings show that Labour’s change from a radical-left position to
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Eastward and northward: a geographical conception of ‘Norðmannaland’ in Ohthere’s Voyage and its analogues in old Norse/Icelandic literature Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Ben Allport
ABSTRACT The Old English account known as Ohthere’s Voyage preserves a ninth-century description of ‘Norðmannaland’ (the land of the Northmen) given by Ohthere, a sailor from northern Norway, at the court of Alfred the Great. In a little-discussed quirk of terminology, Ohthere’s description of the dimensions of Norðmannaland juxtaposes its north (OE norðeweard) with its east (OE easteweard), rather
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”Alcohol is Humanity’s enemy!” Propaganda Posters and the 1922 Swedish Prohibition Referendum Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Lauren Alex O’Hagan
ABSTRACT In the early twentieth century, intense public debate was taking place in Sweden around the control of alcohol consumption. Under intense pressure from the growing temperance movement, the Swedish government passed a motion to hold a referendum on 27 August 1922 to determine whether a total prohibition of alcohol should be implemented. One of the most important means of influencing public
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Modelizing the Nordics: Transdiscursive Migrations of Nordic Models, c. 1965-2020 Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Byron Rom-Jensen, Andreas Mørkved Hellenes, Mary Hilson, Carl Marklund
ABSTRACT This article examines the intertwined circulation of multiple kinds of Nordic models. We seek to understand how modelization of the region occurred at multiple levels and in disparate fields, in other words how different aspects of Nordic policies and politics came to be understood as worthy of interest and at times of emulation. In doing so, we aim to contribute to the critical scholarship
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Threats and Euphemisms: the Antisemitic Propaganda of Nasjonal Samling during the Summer and Autumn of 1942 Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Kjetil Braut Simonsen
ABSTRACT This article analyses the antisemitic propaganda disseminated by the Norwegian National Socialist Party, Nasjonal Samling (NS), from July to the end of December 1942. At that time, the anti-Jewish policy in Nazi-occupied Norway reached its culmination point, with mass arrests and deportations to Auschwitz–Birkenau. This article analyses how the image of ‘the Jew’ was constructed and communicated
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Bound in captivity: intersections of viking raiding, slaving, and settlement in Western Europe during the ninth century CE Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Ben Raffield
ABSTRACT The Viking Age (c. 750–1050 CE) was a time of extensive upheaval and disruption across the northern world. From the late eighth century, historical sources indicate that viking groups were engaging in both short-term and extended campaigns of raiding and plunder. In addition to seeking portable wealth and commodities, it is apparent that raiders also sought captives, many of whom were taken
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Henning Fonsmark and the reformulation of Danish democracy in the 1990s Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Jesper Vestermark Køber
ABSTRACT This article uses the editor and public intellectual Henning Fonsmark as a prism through which to explore critiques of democracy in late twentieth-century Denmark. It shows how Fonsmark innovatively combined criticism of the welfare state with opposition to the left-wing dominance in the fields of culture and education and the left’s conception of democracy as a way of life. After describing
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In Defence of Danish Writers. The Daily Workings of the Press Bureau; or the Struggle for Sovereignty, 1940–1943 Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Troels Solgaard Andersen
ABSTRACT This article investigates the way in which cultural censorship was practiced in Nazi-occupied Denmark, focusing on the Danish Press Bureau’s censorship of books in the period 1940–1943. From April 1940 to August 1943, the explicit German acceptance of Denmark as an independent state constituted a certain degree of internal sovereignty; often referred to as the illusion of sovereignty in Danish
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SERVANTS AS CREDITORS: NAVIGATING THE MORAL ECONOMY OF AN EARLY MODERN ARISTOCRATIC HOUSEHOLD Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 A. Nilsson Hammar, Svante Norrhem
ABSTRACT In this article, we argue that servants working for Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622–1686) were part of an intricate system of economic and social dependencies. Focusing on the indebtedness of the aristocracy to its workers, we examine how deferred payment of wages opened up for negotiations between servant and master, and suggest that servants became de facto creditors to their master
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Making a model: the 1974 Nordic Environmental Protection Convention and Nordic attempts to form international environmental law Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Melina Antonia Buns
ABSTRACT This article investigates the 1974 Nordic Environmental Protection Convention. It shows that the ulterior motives for such a convention were Nordic ambitions to regulate and reduce transboundary pollution originating outside of the Nordic region. Emphasizing the inter-organizational dynamics between institutionalized Nordic cooperation and international organizations, it examines how the Nordics
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Imaging Norway by using the past Scandinavian Journal of History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Svein Ivar Angell
ABSTRACT The article analyses how history was used in efforts to portray Norway in the postwar period. The main narratives of Norwegian history played a dominating role in the construction of national images during this period. These narratives had been constructed as part of the nation-building processes of the 19th century. In several aspects, the historical narratives used in portrayals of Norway