Norwegian History

Milebrent tyritjære. Tekniske egenskaper og et historisk korrekt vedlikehold

by Inger Marie Egenberg

Paper in Norwegian about the development of knowledge in a Pine tar project managed by the Directorate for Cultural Heritage in Norway, 1991-2004

„The Hunted Children of Kings: A Theme in the Old Icelandic Sagas,“ Scandinavica 43 (2004), 5–27.

by Ármann Jakobsson

"Traktaten som aldrig var och fördraget som nästan inte blev. De svensk-norsk–kinesiska förbindelserna 1847–1909."

by Pär Cassel

Historisk Tidskrift 130, no. 3 (2010): 437-66.

The treaty that never was and the treaty that almost never became: Sino–Swedish-Norwegian relations 1847–1908 (in... more The treaty that never was and the treaty that almost never became: Sino–Swedish-Norwegian relations 1847–1908 (in Swedish).

On March 20, 1847, the Swedish envoy and businessman Carl Fredrik Liljevalch and the Manchu nobleman Qiying concluded a ”Treaty of Peace, Amity and Commerce” between the United Kingdom of Sweden-Norway and the Qing Empire. Without any threat of force, the treaty granted the small Scandinavian kingdom most of the privileges Britain, France and the United States had gained in the preceding five year period. However, while Sweden-Norway’s King Oscar I promptly ratified the treaty, the Qing Empire did not, which put the legal status of the treaty in jeopardy and cast a cloud of ambiguity over the relationship between China and Sweden-Norway. Despite uncertainties and occasional conflicts between the two polities over the interpretation of the treaty, the treaty nevertheless governed the relationship between Sweden- Norway and China for 60 years, until a new treaty was concluded in 1908. This article argues that the vague status of the treaty demonstrates that many treaty port institutions, such as extraterritoriality, were not based only on the treaty texts themselves but also on what might be called treaty port ”customary law.” The article also uses the treaty to discuss the position of Sweden- Norway as an imperialist treaty power in China. Even though Swedish and Norwegian representatives identified with the larger treaty powers, they were painfully aware of the fact that they could only exercise their privileges with the permission of the Qing government.

The Convention that never was and the Treaty that almost never became: Swedish-Chinese relations 1847-1909

by Pär Cassel

Paper presented at the conference  “A Century of Change: China and modernization,” College Park, MD, 17 September 2009.

An expanded version of this paper was published in Swedish in the journal Historisk Tidskrift 130, no. 3 (2010): 437-66.

Steinvikholm slott - på overgangen fra middelalder til nyere tid

by Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide

S. W. Nordeide: Steinvikholm slott - på overgangen fra middelalder til nyere tid. NIKU Temahefte 23, Trondheim 2000

Kalmarleidangen av 1123/1124 i en korstogssammenheng

by Pål Berg Svenungsen

Article published in 'Fortid' nr. 3 2009

Korstogene var noe fundamentalt nytt i sin samtid, siden det var en sammensmelting av tanken om pilegrimsferd med... more Korstogene var noe fundamentalt nytt i sin samtid, siden det var en sammensmelting av tanken om pilegrimsferd med tanken om at vold kunne brukes for å tjene Gud. Resultatet var en hellig krig mot kristendommens fiender, autorisert av pavemakten og gitt visse spirituelle privilegier. Senere har synet på korstogene variert kraftig; fra å bli brukt i en svært nasjonalistisk sammenheng til å bli dømt som moralsk forkastelig. Moderne forskning har imidlertid fokusert mer på korstogenes rolle som en felleseuropeisk bevegelse, som fikk meget stor innflytelse på alle lag av samfunnsliv og tenkning, også her i Skandinavia.

Korstog og kongemakt-ideologi og praksis. En studie av den europeiske korstogsbevegelsens betydning og påvirkning i det norske riket ca. 1160-1263

by Pål Berg Svenungsen

My Master thesis

Studien er en undersøkelse av forholdet mellom kongemakt og ideologi i norsk høymiddelalder, men med utgangspunkt i en... more Studien er en undersøkelse av forholdet mellom kongemakt og ideologi i norsk høymiddelalder, men med utgangspunkt i en bestemt ideologi; korstogsideologien. Studien dekker tidsrommet ca.1160-1263. oppgaven er todelt. Første del fokuserer på konflikten mellom Magnus Erlingsson og Sverre Sigurdsson, mens andre del fokuserer på Håkon Håkonssons styringstid.

Fra sjørøver til admiral: Kristoffer Trondsen (ca. 1500-1565)

by Stian Eisenträger

Published in the Scandinavian journal Internasjonal Politikk, (3) 2011.

Commodity Money, Silver and Coinage in Viking-Age Scandinavia

by Dagfinn Skre

Published in: J. Graham-Campbell, S. M. Sindbæk and G. Williams 2011 (eds.): Silver Economies, Monetisation and Society in Scandinavia, AD 800-1100, pp. 67-91. Aarhus University Press.

An Edifice of Stories. National, Personal, and Professional remembering in Norway’s National Gallery

by Mattias Ekman

The National Gallery in Oslo is under threat to be emptied of its art collection due to a planned move. The paper... more The National Gallery in Oslo is under threat to be emptied of its art collection due to a planned move. The paper addresses the current use of the building as a spatial framework for the organising, retrieving and disseminating of memory. An interview with author Gerd Brantenberg, who’s relation to the gallery is marked by a significant childhood experience, and one with senior curator at the gallery, Nils Messel, who structures knowledge of the institution with the help of the building, enable the distinction between personal and professional use of the museum as a mnemonic instrument. Further, it can be suggested that the appreciation of national history pervades the individual memory: a nation-building narrative and national sentiments become central to the personal and familial reminiscence of Brantenberg, and to the professional and art historical remembering of Messel.

Conference Proceeding "Das umstrittene Gedächtnis. Transnationale und innergesellschaftliche Erinnerungskonflikte nach 1945"

by André Keil

Proceeding of the conference "Das umstrittene Gedächtnis. Transnationale und innergesellschaftliche Erinnerungskonflikte nach 1945" which took place in June 2011 at Free University of Berlin.

Smith, S, 2004 Castell Aberlleiniog, Isle of Anglesey and Cronk Howe Mooar, Isle of Man: Related Monuments?,

by Spencer Smith

Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club, 2004, 31-45

Med ryggen mod fjeldet: Dendrokronologisk grundkurve for "sørlandsk eg" – den europæiske forbindelse

by Frans-Arne Stylegar

Co-authored with N. Bonde, C. Baittinger & H. Paulsen. In: L. Appel & K. Langsted (eds), Ressourcer og kulturkontakter. Arkæologi rundt om Skagerrak og Kattegat. Kulturhistoriske skrifter fra Nordsjælland 1, s. 123-131. Gilleleje, 2010.