This licentiate study looks at the Nationalmuseum as a consecrating institution within the Swedish field of art between 1890 and 1920.

This thesis adress the procedure for replacing the sill in south swedish timber-framed buildings, (also named korsvirke in Swedish, bindingsværk in Danish and fackwerk in German) with a focus on lifting the construction and securing the compartment filling. This knowled...

Dataset for Table 1 in article "Profetisk politik i Sverige 1600-1720" ("Prophetic Politics in Sweden 1600-1720), Historisk tidskrift 2021, by Karin Sennefelt, Stockholm university.

The official images of the empresses Plotina and Sabina were changed during the period of the adoptive emperors Trajan and Hadrian. A central focus in this thesis is how Trajan and Hadrian exercised their power by letting the pictures of their wives play an important pu...

This study aims to compare two exhibitions to find out the decolonizing strategies and how they are affecting the material culture that they exhibit. ñseums around the world are in the midst of decolonization. This process has been going on for a long time and covers al...

This essay aims to analyse how different archaeologists interpret archaeological remains as ritualistic. It compares different definitions of rituality in archaeology as well as Catherine Bells definition of ritualisation and applies those definitions to select archaeol...

Calling for a church service by bell ringing has a long history in Sweden. In order for the sound to be heard as far as possible, it was most natural to hang them in the church tower. Large, cast bells first appeared in the 13th century and with that they began to hang ...

Lime tree hedges and other architectural compositions of this plant material have historically been a part of the visual aspects in and surrounding cultural heritage environments in Sweden and continue to be a part of them to this day. Traditionally, the pruning of thes...

In Sweden, interior cultural values are less legally protected then exterior values. In municipal urban planning, public interests are weighed against private interest. Some spaces are hard to define as a public interest or a private interest, for example stairwells in ...