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Maritime History at the Crossroads
This volume seeks to critically review the contemporary state of maritime historiography, as it stands at the volume’s publication date of 1995. The volume is comprised of thirteen essays, each focused on the recent research into the maritime concerns of a particular geographical location, listed as follows: Australia; Canada; China; Denmark; Germany; Greece; Ibero-America; India; the Netherlands; the Ottoman Empire; Spain; the United States; and a final chapter concerning historians and maritime labour in Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. One concern made evident by the collection is the lack of stable identity and cohesive aims within maritime history, the subject holds many conflicting definitions and concepts. The purpose of this volume is to explore the recent developments in maritime history, plus the growth of scholarly interest, to provide a ‘beacon and stimulus for future work’ and to clearly direct and define maritime historiography toward a solid position in the field of history.
Krig, købmænd og kongemagt - og andre 1600-tals studier
"Krig, købmænd og kongemagt" belyser 1600-tallets Danmark fra flere forskellige sider. Vi hører om samfundets tilstand og socialhistorien i datidens Danmark, om retsvæsnet og borgerkulturen og om kriges påvirkning af den almindelige danskers liv. Bogen fortæller også om enkeltpersoners liv og giver os på den måde en indsigt i datidens samfund. Læs blandt andet Poul Klingenbergs selvbiografiske optegnelser og om familiens Berns slægtsforhold i 1600-tallet. John Thorsten Lauridsen (f. 1951) er en dansk forfatter og historiker. Han er uddannet mag.art. i historie fra Aarhus Universitet og arbejder i dag som forskningschef ved Det Kongelige Bibliotek. John T. Lauridsen har skrevet en lang række bøger om dansk historie og modtog i 2013 Kulturministeriets Julius Bomholt Prisen.
Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
This project is an attempt to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. Despite the emphasis on individual, identity and difference that past research claims, much of this history still focuses on hierarchical or dichotomous paring of masculinity and femininity (or male and female). The emphasis on differences has been largely based on the research of such topics as premarital sex, religious deviance, rape and violence; these are topics that were, in the early modern society, criminal or at least easily marginalizing. The central focus of the book is to test, verify and challenge the methodology and use the concept(...
Generations in Towns
The existence and changing of generations in family life, business and politics was a central feature of towns as well as rural societies in earlier times. Even so, it remains understudied by urban historians of the pre-modern period. This book aims to fill some of this gap, containing twelve studies of generations in late medieval and early modern European towns, ranging from the Mediterranean to the Nordic countries, with a time-span from the fourteenth to the early nineteenth century. Dealing with topics like succession and inheritance, family consciousness, as well as relations and conflicts within and between generations, the articles demonstrate the importance and potential of generational studies on pre-modern towns. The book will appeal to anyone who takes an interest in urban social and cultural history, legal and family history in medieval and early modern times.
Giving Birth
The birth of a child is important in the lives of women, families, and communities. But as a metaphor for pastoral practice, it is a sadly underdeveloped theme in theology and ministry. The author offers a remedy for this lack with this unique work, urging the incorporation into worship of Scripture with allusions to birthing--which would enliven the church's theology.
Those Emblems of Hell?
This volume collects a series of reports from maritime historians across Europe, aiming to provide a coherent historical trajectory of the lives of European sailors and their dealings with the maritime labour market; the reports were presented at The Hague’s 1994 conference, ’European Sailors, 1570-1870.’ The core areas discussed in the first half of the volume include: the national maritime labour market; the international maritime labour market; working conditions for sailors; and career patterns. The second half features reports detailing the sailing history of a selection European countries:- the Netherlands; England; Scotland; Britain as a whole; Iceland; Norway; Finland; Denmark;...
Resources and Infrastructures in the Maritime Economy, 1500-2000
This book provides a study of both the physical and intangible frameworks that enabled maritime resources to flow and infrastructures to operate. The aim is to demonstrate the complexity and diversity of the legal, social, cultural, and institutional forces at work within maritime economics. Port development, planning, and policy-making constitute the physical frameworks, while agency structures and consular networks make up the non-physical factors under discussion. Both land and sea commodities are examined, including capital mobilised from other sectors, and a particularly pertinent maritime commodity, fish. Through case studies, theory-driven analysis, evidence from statistical data, and...
Ole Romer
For 300 ar siden afgik en af Danmarks storste begavelser ved doden. Inden da havde den danske astronom og ingenior Ole Romer opnaet verdensberommelse pa grund af sin bestemmelse af lysets hastighed, han var blevet en af den danske konges hojt betroede embedsmAend, og i Paris havde han udarbejdet fontAenesystemet pa det franske kongeslot Versailles og undervist tronarvingen.SAerligt hans opdagelse af lystes toven placerer Romer i selskab med den danske videnskabs fineste selskab fuldt pa linje med Tycho Brahe, H.C. Orsted og Niels Bohr. Imponerende bedrift af en skipperson fra Aarhus!Ole Romer er derfor en helt fortjent fordybelse i en af astronomiens storste skikkelser og et af Danmarks storste naturvidenskabelige talenter. Bogen fortAeller igennem 18 velskrevne bidrag om bade de kendte og ukendte sider af Romers virke, om hans ophold i Paris, hans afgorende rejse til London samt hans biografiske baggrund.Bogen er forfattet af en lang rAekke anerkendte og velbevandrede forskere inden for Romers mange forskellige interessesfAerer.
The Fish Lands
The late medieval German trade with the North Atlantic islands, in the margins of the Hanseatic trade network, has received only limited scholarly attention. Merchants from predominantly Hamburg and Bremen established direct trade relations with these islands in the late 15th century, and managed to control the international trade with Iceland, the Faroes and Shetland for much of the 16th century. However, the Hanseatic commercial infrastructure was absent in the North Atlantic, which forced these merchants to develop new trade strategies. Besides a critical re-evaluation of the economic and political conditions, this volume offers a comprehensive study of the organisation of the trade and the methods used to establish and maintain networks between islanders and German merchants. Moreover, it analyses the role and socio-economic position of the communities of merchants with the North Atlantic in their home towns. The book shows that the North Atlantic trade was anything but insignificant. It was a dynamic and integral part of the trade network of the northern German cities, and its study is highly relevant for the economic history of Northern Europe.
