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What did musical life around Sweden look like during the long nineteenth century? How could people across Sweden engage with music outside the major cities? In this book, twelve music researchers portray concert activities and musical practices in various locations throughout Sweden, with particular focus on communities outside the largest cities. A rich and vibrant musical life emerges, in which private individuals and local associations—together with institutions such as schools, churches, and the military—built extensive musical networks. A recurring theme is mobility and circulation: how musicians, repertoire, and ideas traveled and found new routes alongside the development of communication systems such as steamship lines and railways. This increased mobility made touring possible, facilitated the dissemination of repertoire and ideas, and contributed to the professionalization of musical life. The movement of musicians, repertoire, and ideas is explored and critically examined in the book’s chapters through theories of circulation and of relationships between larger and smaller communities. The book demonstrates how regional and local musical cultures were not merely recipients of external influences but also developed their own dynamic and interconnected musical environments. Taken together, these studies provide a new and richer picture of Sweden’s musical life during the nineteenth century—diverse, decentralized, and deeply intertwined with broader societal change.
Copyright (c) 2025 Anne Reese Willén (Volume editor); Per-Henning Olsson, Anders Olsson, Jonas Lundblad, Mattias Lundberg, Lia Lonnert, Boel Lindberg, Susanna Leijonhufvud, Mathias Boström (Author); Owe Ronström, Karin Hallgren (Volume editor); Inger Stenman (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Hushåll, stad och rätt is a Festschrift to Dag Lindström, professor of history at the Department of History, Uppsala University. This book contains sixteen articles within the three themes House and Household, City and Law and they are written by colleagues and friends from Uppsala University as well as Danish, English, Finnish and other Swedish universities. The book spans the research questions and fields that have characterized Dag Lindström's long and solid historical work, whose topics range from legal, social and institutional history, to urbanization and urbanism, and houses and households in a time span from the late Middle Ages to the days of industrialization.
Copyright (c) 2025 Viktor Englund (Volume editor); Claes Westling, Helle Vogt, Beverly Tjerngern, Jon Stobart, Panu Savolainen, Linda Qviström, Tobias Osvald, Marko Lamberg, Margaret Hunt, Björn Horgby, Christine Ekholst, Louise Berglund, Mikael Alm (Author); Göran Tagesson, Annika Sandén (Volume editor); Maria Ågren (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
This monograph presents a corpus-driven investigation into the syntax and semantics of Media Arabic, with a focus on the sentence as a register-defining unit in contemporary hard news discourse. Based on a manually annotated corpus of 1,144 sentences (c. 35,000 words) drawn from the September 2014 print edition of Al-Ahram, the study systematically analyzes clause linking, verbal morphology, passives, futures, negation, and peripheral structures such as participles, prepositional phrases, adverbials, and nominalized (complement) clauses. The data have been annotated using the WebAnno tool, enabling a structured approach to the quantitative and qualitative analysis of constituent relations and semantic linkings. The study foregrounds how Media Arabic—while functional within the framework of Modern Standard Arabic—exhibits a distinct sentence-level grammar shaped by the rhetorical and structural demands of hard news journalism. Peripheral and non-finite constructions emerge as salient features, as does a patterned use of clause linking and semantic relations that depart in systematic ways from classical and literary norms. The theoretical framework engages with notions of register, genre, and style, as an early step in situating Media Arabic within broader typological and functionalist perspectives. Addressing a significant lacuna in Arabic linguistics, this work contributes an empirical foundation for future scholarship in syntax, corpus linguistics, and language pedagogy. It also offers a descriptive reference for the development of advanced instructional materials in Arabic as a foreign language and for applied work in media and translation studies.
Copyright (c) 2025 Emil Lundin (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The present volume is the result of the symposium “Names and Conflicts” which was held in Uppsala in November 2023. The symposium was arranged by the Institute for Language and Folklore and the department of Scandinavian Languages at Uppsala University in collaboration with NORNA and gathered about 60 participants. Keynote speakers were Associate Professor Karen Pennesi from University of Western Ontario and Associate Professor Maria Gussarsson from the Swedish Defence University. The proceedings contain 14 peer-reviewed articles that span across different parts of the onomastic research field including sociolinguistics, language history, name planning and linguistic landscapes. The articles cover a time span from the Middle Ages up until the 21st century. Insights into different name types including place names, personal names and bynames from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden are presented.
Copyright (c) 2025 Josefin Devine (Volume editor); Johan Hedberg (Chapter Author); Alexandra Petrulevich, Daniel Solling (Volume editor); Emilia Aldrin, Väinö Syrjälä, Agata Michnowska, Vidar Haslum, Tom Flaten, Peder Gammeltoft, Minna Nakari, Line Førre Grønstad, Ivar Utne, Lennart Ryman, Agneta Sundström, Birgit Eggert, Linnea Gustafsson, Karen Pennesi (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
This book takes the reader on a 800 year long journey through the chant and liturgy of the Order of the Birgittines investigating liturgical books from the Birgittine abbeys in Vadstena, Mariënwater/Maria Refugie (the Netherlands), Mariëntroon (Belgium), and Altomünster (Germany). Karin Lagergren explores how the liturgy maintained the Birgittine identity through all these centuries and how it negotiated the Birgittine liturgical heritage in order to adapt to a changing world. The Birgittine Order is a monastic order with the charismatic figure of St Birgitta as its very special hallmark, providing spiritual unity and a firm foundation for the Birgittine identity. How could such a figure remain constantly present and relevant to the Order’s existence and members? This is one of the questions the book attempts to answer. Furthermore, it seeks to address how the Birgittines used, expanded, altered, and lived with the Birgittine liturgy, through examining their liturgical books. More generally, interest lies in exploring how groups use chant and liturgy and adapt them to their particular needs; the Order of the Birgittines provides a specific case. Another issue concerns the intriguing question of the transmission of the Birgittine liturgy. In summary, the overall and guiding idea behind this book is to describe how liturgy expresses fundamental ideas about how a community chooses to define itself, in this case the Birgittines. A theoretical basis for this understanding has been adopted from Max Weber’s concept of charisma. Understanding arises through examination of the musical content of the liturgical books as well as the structure, layout and decoration of the books and how these can be linked to historical circumstances. The Birgittine liturgical chant repertoire in this study is regarded as a ‘chantscape’, a term covering the entire Birgittine liturgy as experienced by the sisters and brothers of the Order. This term, used here for the first time, is based on the more familiar concept of ‘soundscape’ and will be the guide for analysis of musical examples and then related to questions of Birgittine spirituality and Birgitta’s charismatic authority. This book is the first to address the Birgittine chant and liturgy after the Middle Ages and considers many sources that until now have been unexplored.
Copyright (c) 2025 Karin Lagergren (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Human Rights as Ethics, Politics, and Law
This study offers a critical approach to the connections between the law, politics, and morality as they figure in human rights discourse. It argues that human rights must be understood – ethically, politically, and legally – through the prism of reasonable skepticism towards the legitimacy of contemporary institutions for the protection of human rights. The colonial legacy of human rights, the lack of transparent principles for dealing with conflicting rights, and the counterproductive overemphasis upon the importance of legal instruments are considered as offering serious challenges to the lasting legitimacy of human rights. These challenges are analyzed by means of selected human rights-related cases as well as theoretical discussion.
Copyright (c) 2014 Elena Namli (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
In our multilingual societies, communication and collaboration between people are more important than ever. One of the school’s most important missions is therefore to provide students with opportunities to develop their linguistic abilities, enhance intercultural and multilingual competence, and learn to navigate diverse cultural contexts. This anthology is intended to offer inspiration, valuable insights, and practical advice to teachers and other school professionals responsible for language teaching and education, as well as to serve as a resource for student teachers, teacher educators, and researchers working with language in an educational context. The anthology brings together texts that highlight language education from both theoretical and practical-didactic perspectives. With contributions from practicing teachers, teacher educators, and researchers, the anthology turns its focus toward contemporary language teaching and illustrates the breadth present in the Nordic school context. The authors’ contributions address a wide range of classroom practices, such as the teaching of language competencies, assessment practices, and factors influencing language teaching and learning. The idea for the anthology arose in connection with the 60th anniversary of the Centre for Professional Development and Internationalisation in Schools (Fortbildningsavdelningen för skolans internationalisering) at Uppsala University in 2024.
CJ: Språk och lingvistik; Språkundervisning och språkinlärning
Copyright (c) 2025 Constanze Ackermann-Boström (Volume editor); Toni Mäkipää, Mette Skovgaard Andersen , Sonja Barfod Lund, Maria Nilsson, Céline Rocher Hahlin, Jonas Granfeldt , Simeon Oxley, Anne Reath Warren , Sara Gunneriusson, Andrew Clarke, Catrin Dinér, Pernilla Elander Malmqvist, Elsa Hjelmgren, Monika Paukkonen, Jenny Pettersson, Zandra Svensson, Sebastian Malmberg, Marie Svärd, Helena Reierstam (Author); Birgitta Hellqvist (Volume editor); Maria Håkansson Ramberg, Henrik Edgren, Lars-Göran Sundell , Silvia Kunitz, Jessica Berggren, Karina Pålsson Gröndahl , Malin Haglind, Amanda Hoskins, Anna Löfquist, Hanna S. Robertsson, Susana S. Fernández, Lauren Sadow, Berta González Guarro, Klara Hansson, Fredrika Nyström, Hassan Sharif (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The Epitaphios for the emperor Manuel I Komnenos (r. 1143-1180) by the eminent scholar bishop, Eustathios of Thessalonike, is one of the longest and most ambitious political eulogies of the Byzantine era. Delivered during a time of looming political peril at the Byzantine court and composed in a compellingly intricate style, the Epitaphios was meant to serve as both a blueprint for subsequent rulers and as a model of innovative eloquence. The Epitaphios was the culmination of nearly four decades of service to the imperial court and marked an unprecedented effort by one of the empire's most accomplished rhetors to wed epideictic rhetoric to political memorialization. The present book contains a critical edition, translation, and wide-ranging commentary designed to offer a comprehensive analysis of the text and of its enabling literary, ceremonial, and political contexts. Buttressing the edition and translation is a lengthy and detailed commentary which elucidates various features of the funeral oration. It is prefaced by an extensive introduction on various aspects of imperial funerary discourse and ceremony, including the physical setting of the oration, the structural role of orality, as well as aspects of palaeography and editorial method. The overall aim of this study is to exploit the many opportunities afforded by this text to consider the poetics of court oratory at the apex of what is often described as one of the great renaissances of medieval Greek literary culture.
Copyright (c) 2017 Emmanuel Bourbouhakis (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
This volume offers a series of cross-cultural, in-depth studies of twelfth- to fifteenth-century medieval Troy narratives, mainly romances. Source texts are situated across a wide range of language traditions and include famous literary highlights (e.g. Benoît, Guido, Tzetzes and Eustathios) as well as lesser-known work (e.g. the Irish tradition) and expert comparative analyses within the same language traditions (e.g. Middle English, German). With a unique synchronical focus, it highlights the classical reception of religious and supernatural elements, events and characters in the Middle Ages, embedded in the contemporary socio-cultural (notably Christian-political) ideological context. The volume subscribes to the transnational perspective that has long since proven its relevance for medieval studies and actively builds bridges between the ‘eastern’ Byzantine and ‘western’ vernacular traditions, which on a scholarly level are often still segregated.
Copyright (c) 2025 Tine Scheijnen, Ellen Söderblom Saarela (Volume editor); A. Sophie Schoess, Lilli Hölzlhammer, Susannah L. Wright (Chapter Author); Baukje van den Berg (Volume editor); Adam J. Goldwyn, Hilke Hoogenboom (Chapter Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
A Catalogue of Christian Arabic Bible Translations at the British Library
<span style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">The present work contains records of the Christian Arabic Bible translations and Bible commentaries that are kept at the Department of Asian and African Studies at the British Library. Many of these manuscripts have previously been described in various catalogues, yet with different levels of detail. The main problem, however, for those interested in the material is to navigate through all these printed Arabic, Syriac, and Coptic catalogues, as well as the handwritten acquisition registers, in order to get an overview of the corpus. As a means of enabling access to such an overview, this catalogue aims at systematizing and updating codicological and content-related information about these valuable sources, many of which have previously been described only by title and approximate date and some, which have not yet been catalogued. Based on recent research findings, it also provides information regarding the biblical versions transmitted in these translations as well as sample images of the manuscripts it describes and indices over scribes, commissioners, dating systems, immediate sources of acquisition, etc
Copyright (c) 2024 Mirjam Lindgren Hjälm (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
This textbook describes theory and practice in analog role-playing game (RPG) design that encourage specific transformative impacts in participants, including tabletop, live action role-playing (larp), and Nordic and American freeform. We describe three types of transformative RPGs: transformative leisure, therapeutic, and educational. We present our model of nano-game design, offering recommendations for designing transformative goals; framing activities such as workshops and debriefs; narrative and culture design. This interdisciplinary book highlights theories from role-playing game studies, peace and conflict studies, psychology, social psychology, sociology, counseling, anthropology, pedagogy, and several other fields. Key concepts include bleed, alibi, RPGs as transformational containers, immersion, identity, transfer, ritual, psychotherapeutic techniques, group theories, and educational theories. We emphasize psychological safety before, during, and after games, as well as strategies for cultivating transformational communities. Key topics include working with specific populations; crisis management; sensitive content and representation. Then, we discuss working with myth, symbolism, and ritual, narrative, and postmodern magic as methods for transforming the stories of our lives. We cover forms of culture within and around RPGs, as well working with conflict in scenarios related to politics, culture, gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. We share thoughts around the use of RPGs to foster activism, advocacy, inclusion, and accessibility. Finally, we offer considerations for researchers studying transformative role-playing games, including academic argument, structure, theory, method, data collection, ethics, and other considerations. We introduce key methods, including Research through Design, ethnography, and qualitative and quantitative data analysis. The book closes with a summary of evidence-based research available on the cognitive, affective, and behavioral effects of role-playing games.
Copyright (c) 2025 Sarah Lynne Bowman, Elektra Diakolambrianou, Simon Brind (Volume editor); Sarah Lynne Bowman, Elektra Diakolambrianou, Simon Brind, Angie Bandhoesingh, Kjell Hedgard Hugaas, Alessandro Giovannucci, Guus Quinten van Tilborg, Josephine Baird, Josefin Westborg, Taisto Suominen (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Antisemitic Discourse and Historical Amnesia in Bosnia
In 2017 a conflict erupted among the Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was related to identity and self-image, in particular the role of Bosnian Muslims during World War II. Highly sensitive but seldom discussed issues were brought to the fore. Had not Muslim forces massacred Serb villages? Did not Croat and Muslim Ustasha kill most of the Jews in Bosnia? Why, then, regard antisemitic collaborators as national role models? Reactions varied from condemnation to arguments that Muslims acted in self-defence. Even antisemitic rhetoric appeared. There was a divide between a liberal, secular opinion and religious-national views within the ruling party or the Islamic Community. Apparently, a certain continuity existed between Muslim elites during World War II and those in power since 1990. In the 1930s, Bosnian Muslims were familiar with currents in the Middle East, the ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-Jewish message of the Mufti of Jerusalem. The organization Young Muslims, inspired by Islamist ideas from Egypt, was violently suppressed by the Communists 1945–48, but reappeared in 1990, forming the nucleus of the Party of Democratic Action, led by Alija Izetbegović. After the war, high-level contacts with the Muslim Brothers were cordial and regular. The crisis revealed tensions between the religious foundation of Bosniak identity and the building of a modern nation. Parts of society had been nurturing a discourse of martyrdom where history had to be ignored or revised. The study deals with the conflict in recent years, as well as with the ideas of Mustafa Busuladžić and the historical context in which he was active. Besides texts by Busuladžić and his contemporaries, I have relied on Bosnian sources, as well as international research.
Copyright (c) 2024 Kjell Magnusson (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
This book is about immigration and integration. I explore the integration of the children of Eastern European Jews living in Sweden on 31 December 1880. Having migrated to Sweden from the Russian Empire, this immigrant group was stigmatized and subjected to a form of selective antisemitism now known as Eastern Jew phobia. How did Jewish immigrant children integrate into Sweden’s majority society and culture? The elusive phenomenon of integration has been studied as a question of socioeconomic and political inclusion in ten longitudinal, micro-level sub-studies. The study population consists of all 857 children born between 1865 and 1880 to parents born in the Russian Empire, primarily identified using primary data from Sweden’s official population statistics in 1880, but also using several supplementary sources. Each individual has been tracked into adulthood using population registers and other primary sources in Sweden and elsewhere (usually until 1920). Several variables have been categorized in a database to answer the questions posed in each sub study, such as name, year of birth, place of birth, parents’ birthplaces, father’s occupation in 1880, place of residence in 1880 and 1920 (or an alternative reference year), own occupation in 1920, spouse’s ethnicity, income in 1920, and surname changes. The first three sub studies concern migration patterns. Less than 50 per cent of the study population remained in Sweden as adults, while at least 25 per cent – perhaps closer to 30 per cent – emigrated to the US and about 15 per cent to other countries. A slightly smaller proportion of men than women remained in Sweden, but over 60 per cent of emigrants to the US were male. When it came to internal migration, many moved from towns and cities to Sweden’s two largest cities, Stockholm (the capital) and Gothenburg. Of the 390 individuals in the study population living in Sweden in 1880, only 37 per cent lived in Stockholm or Gothenburg, but in adulthood this figure rose to 56 per cent.
Copyright (c) 2024 Carl Henrik Carlsson (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The Finspong collection (Finspongssamlingen), kept in the Norrköping City Library, constitutes one of the largest historical book col lections in Sweden, comprising about 35,000 volumes. It includes a considerable amount of music: about ninety printed publications and thirty music manuscripts, almost all collections of multiple pieces, dating from 1600 to the late nineteenth century. Many of the pieces included in the manuscript volumes are known to have survived only there and more than a fifth of the printed publications are seemingly unica. The manuscripts and printed publications, as well as the repertoire included in them, have varied origins, such as France, the Southern Netherlands, the Dutch Republic, northern German-speaking regions and Scandinavia. This international character of the collection can provide a point of departure for studies addressing issues related to, for example, music transfer and different ways of adaptation of the music to a local context. In addition, the music in the Finspong collection constitutes a rare example of a music collection accumulated by the same aristocratic family over a period of almost three centuries, reflecting shifting tastes and preferences over time. Although the Finspong collection contains one of the more comprehensive historical music collections surviving in Sweden, it has been without a modern catalogue. This can be compared to contemporary Swedish music collections, such as the Gimo collection, the Leufstabruk collection, or the Düben collection, all of which have modern catalogues. The aim of this publication is thus to present a modern and detailed catalogue with a focus on the material – the printed and handwritten sources, as well as the musical repertoire they include in order to facilitate further studies of this music material. The book also deals with issues related to ownership of the musical items and provides an attempt to produce a chronological reconstruction of the accumulation of the music in the collection. The introduction covers first the history of the family De Geer in Sweden at Finspång and the history of its library. Second, a chronological outline of the acquisition of the music is presented. A third part examines the musical items divided in two groups: printed publications and music manuscripts. The final part of the introduction discusses the music repertoire, focusing on issues such as geographical origin and the different repertoires of secular and sacred music.
Copyright (c) 2022 Maria Schildt (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
This book explores literary spatialities, that is the notion of space and its agency in comprehending the deeper plot and meaning of two eleventh-century Byzantine hagiographical texts: the Life of St Lazaros from Mount Galesion, written by Gregory the Cellarer (Γρηγορίου του κελλαρίτη Βίος Λαζάρου τοῦ ἐν τῷ Γαλησίῳ), and the Life of St Symeon the New Theologian, written by Niketas Stethatos (Νικήτα Στηθάτου Βίος Ἁγίου Συμεὼν τοῦ Νέου Θεολόγου). The study proposes a narratological inquiry of the broader meaning of ‘spatialities’ in Byzantine texts, which focuses upon the employment of a ‘spatial’ language or ‘spatial’ narrative techniques and strategies. In this direction, it adopts an interdisciplinary methodological toolbox shared among literary, spatial and anthropological studies. The interdisciplinary approach of the study aspires to outline the field of spatial studies as an area of research, where traditional approaches to hagiography (literary, historical, anthropological) can be combined through their common and inherent ‘cultural component’. The rationale of this study is based on the conception of the Byzantine world as made of spaces that were constantly formed and transformed by people according to their cultural agenda and the political changes. Henri Lefebvre’s concepts of ‘perceived, conceived and lived social space’ are used towards a reconstruction of the experience of spaces through their particular literary expressions so as to allow an insight on Byzantine society and culture. Spaces as well as social practices, which are spatially enacted and performed, are reflected in the narratives. By means of the spatial-narratological inquiry, this book aims to answer questions around the process and the meaning of holification. What kind of experiences does the process of holification of a human, as conveyed by literature, implicate? What corporeal senses and what corporeal and subsequent mental changes are implied by the texts to have been engaged in this process? How do different notions of space serve as ‘vehicles’ for the literary expression of these empathetic experiences, senses, and changes? How are literary spatialities used as narrative devices by Byzantine authors in order to persuade their audience about the existence and the meaning of holification? In this work, it is argued that an emphasis on either the horizontal or on the vertical axis was a main component of distinct narrative strategies employed by the two Byzantine authors in order to demonstrate two different stories of holification. In specific, it is proposed that the two stories display two different local knowledges of a single world system (Byzantine, Christian and Mediterranean), which emerged in a subjective and situational way and were expressed through two different theological approaches to monastic asceticism. Last but not least, due to its central role in the narratives, space is scrutinized as a vehicle for the reception of the texts: it is argued that the dynamic and flexible narrative landscape, offered to an ideal reader by the two hagiographical texts, diachronically serves as a multi-dimensional and multi-functional device for teaching a Christian human faith and practice.
Copyright (c) 2023 Myrto Veikou (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Musiken i Uppsala under stormaktstiden. 2: 1660–1730
The purpose of the present volume is to complete Bengt Kyhlberg’s thesis Musik i Uppsala under stormaktstiden, 1974 (Music at Uppsala during the Swedish great power period, part 1) using the already finished material he wrote with a view to publish it as part 2 for the university jubilee in 1977, something he did not fulfill. I have taken advantage of his systematized inventories of musical notices available in the Musik- och teaterbiblioteket, Stockholm (Music and theatre library) in the “collection Bengt Kyhlberg”. Several biographies of organists, organ builders and students and the chapter on the construction of the big organ in the cathedral were already finished and have been marked with BK to distinguish Bengt Kyhlberg as the author. I have chosen to emphasize the affinity between Part 1 and Part 2 by continuing the various chapters with their subdivisions. At the same time, Part 2 should be able to stand on its own two feet, which is why the reader receives a brief recapitulation in each section. Part 1 had the dual purpose of showing that the inventory of archives functions as a musicological method and to use the extracted information about music to account for the music in Uppsala until 1660. The method gained recognition and it has since been utilized by other researchers. Due to the fact that the archives related to Uppsala from 1660 onwards are becoming more extensive and complete, the account in Part 2 stands on a firmer ground and becomes more detailed. The number of biographies of music-active persons in Part 1 are 220, while in Part 2 they are 590, of which the most prominent people require a lot of space. It has therefore been found appropriate to assemble the biographies in their own volume.
Copyright (c) 2024 Jan Olof Rudén (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Copyright (c) 2023 Jan Olof Rudén (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
It has been a tradition to write about ‘Vikings’ and ‘Varangians’ within the framework of national histories of Scandinavia. However, it is known that most of them were outsiders in the local societies of the respective countries. Vikings shaped their identity profiles beyond the social and political borders of their homelands, which means that ‘Viking Studies’ actually represent a transnational history. In order to overcome the tendency to marginalize these social categories, we need to see their place in a global historical context. The material culture of Scandinavia reveals some ‘oriental’ influences, which took place in the 9th and 10th centuries. These influences can be traced in weaponry, riding gear, coins, clothing, jewellery, ceramic, textile and copper vessels; however, no interpretative model has yet been proposed to explain them. No critical interpretation of these objects can be undertaken without tracing channels of communication, forms of contacts and social and cultural environments in which they were circulated. During the past decade, I have studied military aspects and cultural contacts in the early towns of Scandinavia and Rus´, and lately also contacts between Byzantium and the Viking world. One result of these studies is the identification of Byzantine influences on cloth style, city life, court ceremonies, town planning and defense, all contributing to a ‘Byzantine dimension’ of Scandinavian history. There are numerous examples of national histories of the North, while the concept of a transnational history still needs to be explored. The method of writing a transnational history remains to be defined, though we are aware that in dealing with a number of local histories we are required to find one story – a way of uniting different histories in a common plot. Topics that unite histories are, for example, movements of people and the spreading of ideas and technologies across national boundaries. Such common topics are quite popular in the writing of medieval history, but depending on political and/or cultural preferences they may be approached with different attitudes; sometimes they are simply denied. The debate about a Byzantine heritage in Scandinavia offers us a case in point. The question of whether or not Byzantine cultural influences may be discerned have been debated at length and are still far from being resolved. Some historians of religion and art deny any considerable impact due to a lack of plain evidence. By contrast, other scholars, especially archaeologists, try to show the importance of Byzantium in the spreading of Christianity and in the shaping of a local elite in Scandinavia. In this debate the role of Old Rus´ as an agent of cultural transfer between Byzantium and Northern Europe has indeed been noted. Northmen, who were known in the East as Rhos and Varangians, held a unique position in world history.
Copyright (c) 2013 Fedir Androshchuk (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Narrative Structure of Wakhi Oral Stories
The Wakhi people live in the remote areas of the high Pamir mountains. Their original homeland is situated in the Wakhan Corridor in the Badakhshan region, and is divided by the border between southeast Tajikistan and nordeast Afghanistan. They also inhabit the mountainous areas in northern Pakistan and western China. The Wakhi language belongs to the Pamir sub-group of Eastern Iranian languages and is spoken by about 58,000 people in the above-mentioned four countries. The discourse of Wakhi as spoken in Tajikistan has not yet been the subject of analysis. This study is an attempt to identify the features of the fundamental narrative structure of Wakhi oral stories. The analysis of narrative genres recorded in the Wakhan valley in Tajikistan is based on Labov & Waletzky’s (1967) and Labov’s (1972 and 1997) models. The first part examines the properties of temporal sequence and narrative clauses, and concludes that two sets of narrative tense-aspect forms are found throughout Wakhi oral narratives: simple past tense for eyewitness accounts, and non-past alternating with perfect for non-eyewitness narratives. In the second part, the overall structure of the Wakhi oral narrative is examined, to define the properties of each of the narrative stages (abstract, orientation, complicating action, evaluation, resolution, and coda) and of the transitions between them. A separate chapter is dedicated to evaluation, which may be present explicitly, as a comment made by the narrator by stepping out of the narrative frame, or as part of the narrative frame, either embedded in direct speech or expressed implicitly using a range of internal evaluative devices. The final part starts a discussion on further aspects of narrative as presented by Labov (1997), namely reportability, credibility, causality, the assignment of praise and blame, and objectivity, that can direct possible future research beyond the narrative frame and into areas of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. The study is complemented by a corpus of twenty-one transcribed, glossed, and translated Wakhi stories, representing various narratives genres described in the study.
Copyright (c) 2017 Jaroslava Obrtelová (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Balochi is an Iranian language spoken in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, the Gulf States (particularly Oman and the United Arab Emirates), Turkmenistan, India, and East Africa. Informal estimates suggest that no less than 10 million people speak the language. It can be divided into three main dialect blocks, Western, Southern and Eastern Balochi. Ever since the mid-20th century, there have been attempts to create a unified orthography for Balochi. The development of written Balochi has mainly taken place in Pakistan, where there have been advocates of both the Arabic and Latin scripts. Most literature, of course, has been written in Arabic script, but even here diverging systems have been used. In 2012, at the initiative of Uppsala University, the University of Balochistan and the Balochi Academy, Quetta, as well as a number of Baloch authors and literary societies, a programme was launched with the purpose of working towards the standardization of Balochi orthography and grammar. At an orthography conference held in Uppsala in 2014, the participants decided to work on two parallel orthographies, one based on the Arabic script and one on the Latin script. In 2016, a grammar conference was held, at which some of the areas of grammatical variation in Balochi were discussed and suggestions were made about what forms to include in the standard written Balochi language. In order to create and promote a standard Balochi language, it is important to include as many intellectuals as possible in the process, in order to gain a consensus for the suggested standard language. This description of Modern Standard Balochi orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax and word-formation is based on discussions held at the conferences and on further input from a number of renowned Baloch writers and linguists.
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A Typology and Classification of Three Literary Genres
The present study explores the definition, distinctive features and classification of three genres of children’s oral literature, taraneh, matal and afsaneh. It also presents new findings regarding the unique linguistic structure of each genre and describes the method developed by older Iranian women to educate children in a traditional oral education system. Numerous literary examples of each genre are cited, as narrated by old and illiterate female informants. The research comprised library and field studies. 50 Iranian women participated in the field study and were divided into two groups, one in Iran and one in Sweden. This study aims to show that the addressees of the above-mentioned genres are children of different ages. It also aims to prove that these types of narratives were meant to educate children at a time when oral traditions were the only way to teach fundamental lessons in a concrete form. Therefore these stories are fundamentally different from narratives meant for adults. The work aims to be useful for other researchers working in the field of oral literature. The texts published here can also serve as a resource for comparing oral and written language, and may be helpful for child educators, parents and children’s writers.
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This book presents twenty one Balochi short stories in Balochi-Latin and Balochi-Arabic script, as well as English translations and introductions of the authors in English. The stories have been edited to correspond to the grammatical and orthographic standards adopted by the Balochi Language Project and are arranged according to three themes: Human Relations, Man and his Environment, and Exile. The writing of short stories in Balochi began in the early 1950s and was mainly limited to Eastern (Pakistani) Balochistan. During the 1950s and 1960s a number of new writers of fiction emerged. The themes of stories by these early authors were often of a local character. Most of the stories are plot-centred and chronologically structured. Often an omniscient narrator tells the story. The writers frequently want to convey a message and depict injustices in society, and in doing so they indirectly call for social and political reforms. From the 1970s onward, a new generation of authors appeared on the scene. The writers belonging to the second generation are, as a rule, better educated than those of the first generation. They developed the short story genre by trying out new techniques and bringing in more varied and sometimes less locally anchored themes. Since the 1990s, a large number of new authors have emerged. New trends in Balochi short story writing include their increased readability, simplification of the language, separation of the characters in the stories from the author’s own ideology and a weaker urge to convey a message to the reader, as well as the treatment of taboo subjects that have not previously been addressed in Balochi literature. The growing number of women writers has also added a female voice, where women’s issues are no longer discussed only in a male-oriented discourse. The overwhelming dominance of writers from Pakistan is worth noting. Of the twenty-one authors represented in this anthology, only one comes from the western side of Balochistan, i.e. Iran. It is also noteworthy that several of the younger writers have had to leave their country and now live in exile.
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Georg Stiernhielm: Linguistic works, volume 1
This is the first of two volumes that provide a textual edition of the linguistic works of the Swedish Renaissance polymath Georg Stiernhielm (1598–1672). On the basis of his unpublished manuscripts, the majority of Stiernhielm’s writings on phonology, morphology, semiotics, sound symbolism and the variability of language are here published for the first time. The texts edited show how, in his linguistic theory, he starts from the smallest phonological and morphological building blocks, continues with their semiotic and phonosemantic functions and concludes with the variability and transformability of parts of speech (or word classes), of clause elements, and of the discourse or text itself as the supreme unit. The edition is preceded by an introduction to Stiernhielm’s impressive linguistic edifice. The biographical chapter accounts for the course of his life and elucidates how his linguistic thought is linked with his educational journey in Europe (1614–1624), his connections with the Swedish antiquarian Johannes Bureus (for a period of over twenty years, circa 1624–1652) and his acquaintance with prominent Dutch linguists and historians of his own time. The next chapter surveys his scholarly and scientific authorship in unpublished and published writings, taking his archive and his catalogues of planned writings as points of departure. The two subsequent chapters first explain various topics and contexts of Stiernhielm’s linguistic thought and then explore the foundations of his phonology, morphology, phonosemantic and grammatical-rhetorical theory of linguistic variability. The last introductory chapter accounts for the manuscripts and the editorial principles employed.
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The Music Theory of Harald Vallerius: Three Dissertations from 17th-century Sweden
This book presents a detailed examination of the music theoretical writings of Harald Vallerius, a Swedish scholar and composer active during the 17th century. This volume includes three key dissertations connected to Vallerius that explore topics in music theory, harmony, and the pedagogical approaches to music in early modern Sweden. Vallerius’s work, situated within the broader context of European Renaissance and Baroque musical thought, offers a distinctive blend of classical influences, among others from the works of Johannes Tinctoris and Gioseffo Zarlino, as well as innovative ideas reflective of his own scholarly inquiries. The book analyzes Vallerius’s contributions to understanding counterpoint, modal theory, and the obvious relationship between music and mathematics in the 17th century. Additionally, it situates Vallerius’s theories within the cultural and intellectual currents of Sweden’s late Renaissance and early Baroque periods.
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Georg Stiernhielm. Linguistic works, volume 2
This is the second of two volumes that provide a textual edition of the linguistic writings of the Swedish polymath Georg Stiernhielm (1598–1672). On the basis of his unpublished manuscripts and early prints, this volume presents a textual edition of his writings on etymology (Chapters 7–9), on historical and comparative linguistics (Chapters 10–13) and on a programme for the renewal of the Swedish language (Chapters 16–17) as preserved in unpublished manuscripts and some prints. Moreover, a record of the public dispute between Stiernhielm and Terserus is edited (Chapter 14), as is also Stiernhielm’s autograph catalogue of his holdings of linguistic literature and source texts, viz. dictionaries, textual samples and treatises for research on language origins (Chapter 15). The textual edition is preceded by an introduction to the political and cultural contexts of Stiernhielm’s linguistic theories on these topics, as well as to the early development of historical-comparative language studies, to Stiernhielm’s achievements of in this field of study, and finally to his unpublished etymological, universal and bilingual lexicography. The textual edition is followed by a reception study on Stiernhielm as a historical linguist and language renewer.
The period of the 16th–18th centuries, when the Safavids were one of the major ­political powers in the region, is an important era for Persian linguistic evolution. New Persian was the literary language and lingua franca of a vast area stretching from Anatolia to China and the Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent, and from Central Asia to present-day Afghanistan and Iran. The later political separation of post-Safavid Iran from Central Asia and Afghanistan led to the dialectal variations of New Persian. A linguistic description of the New Persian of this period is therefore of great importance, not only for understanding the diachronic process of language change leading from late Classical Persian to Modern Persian, but also for synchronic studies of dialectal variations of the period.
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Philologists not only investigate, but also tell the story of philology – this loving study of the words, the texts, the narratives of the past. Every instance of philological research is accordingly part of its history and we, as philologists, travel along and with the words, perhaps never fully in charge. This series started with a study of Modern Greek literature, written in French and published in 1962, and has then moved primarily back in time through various periods and kinds of texts, until the last volume (2015) landed in Homeric reception studies. In many ways, this journey is symptomatic of Greek Studies at Uppsala University, stretching from Homer to Byzantine times and often even further.With this volume we wish to introduce new and wider perspectives and call attention to our own role as readers and scholars. Because philology, as any reading practice, is situated – in our minds, our bodies, and the world we live in. We can strive for accuracy and objectivity, but we also need to accept that situatedness. Such an approach, long overdue, has rather recently been adapted in a new form usually called autotheory: personal and yet critical readings of (most often) historical works, practiced by thinkers and writers such as Hélène Cixous in her Mother Homer is Dead (Homère est morte, 2014) and Maggie Nelson in The Argonauts (2015). Autotheory challenges our own position as scholars and pressing contemporary social and political concerns such as women’s subjectification and objectification, embodiment, feminism, and neo-liberalism. Re-reading the classics from different perspectives is both vital and unavoidable in a modern world. It is necessary for the survival of the classics, and maybe for our intellectual survival as well. Ingela Nilsson, series editor
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