Characteristic of the cultural landscape on Öland during the middle part of the Iron Age (ca. 200-550AD) are the today visible house foundations and fences made of stone. The house foundations were three-aisled houses with roof-bearing pillars and the stone foundations ...

In the decades around 1900, political and social cartoons flourished in humour and satire magazines in the Swedish capital. The thesis presents a new theoretical start on the nature of humour in cartoons: the idea of the comical is argued as effects of reality notions a...

Dietary Patterns and Social Structures in Medieval Sigtuna, Sweden as reflected in Stable Isotope Values in Human Skeletal Remains

There is a thriving private commercial trade in anatomical, ethnographic and archaeological human remains that make ready use of new social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Etsy, and until recently, eBay. This practice has deep Colonial-era roots, though the...

Industrial Life Insurance (ILI) was introduced in Sweden in the beginning of the 1900s. Following models already used in the United Kingdom and the United States, this insurance was specifically aimed at manual labourers, promising pension savings and compensation to su...

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att granska hur genus och genusrelationer uttrycks i svenska, medeltida ballader. Genom att förstå balladkaraktärernas handlingar som performativa, ämnar uppsatsen undersöka hur maskulinitet och femininitet etableras och omförhandlas i ba...

The study examines how prototypes and typological relationships between the L1, the L2 and the target language (TL) interact with TL proficiency in learning Italian as additional language. Low-proficiency and high-proficiency undergraduate learners of Italian (N = 25) w...