Litteratur kan sige hvad som helst. Om alt muligt. Men vi lAeser ikke kun litteratur med en bog i handen. I dag er bogstaverne vandret ud af de trykte boger og over i andre medier. Det Aendrer litteraturens muligheder og gor den bevidst om sig selv…
Short introduction to the amazing finds of garments from the Norse settlement of Herjolfnes in Greenland by Else Ostergard. Chapters on technique: production of the tread, dyeing, weaving techniques, cutting and sewing by Anna Norgaard. Measurements…
This multidisciplinary collection of essays represents studies on Japan and Korea mainly from the Nordic countries, but also from other parts of Europe, and from the USA, Canada, Korea and Japan. The full range of contemporary Japanese studies is co…
One of the century's most spectacular archaeological finds occurred in 1921 -- a year before Howard Carter stumbled upon Tutankhamun's tomb -- when Poul Norlund recovered dozens of garments from a graveyard in the Norse settlement of Herjolfsnaes, G…
The island of Rhodes in the south-eastern Aegean is in a strategic position for sea-routes between west and east. Its four ancient city-states, Lindos, Kamiros, Ialysos, and from the end of the fifth century BC the new capital of Rhodes, have all pr…
In Scandinavia as elsewhere, cryptocrystalline rocks such as flint were an integral part of peoples' lives during prehistory. Knowledge about flint, its properties, its uses, and its many names, was no doubt transmitted through the generations as pa…
In Scandinavia as elsewhere, cryptocrystalline rocks such as flint were an integral part of peoples lives during prehistory. Knowledge about flint, its properties, its uses, and its many names, was no doubt transmitted through the generations as par…
The cultural-historical approach started in the 1930s by Lev Vygotsky, who held that learning and instruction are the means to development, is the foundation for the Radical-Local Theory of Teaching and Learning formulated by Mariane Hedegaard and S…
De første danske byer opstod i middelalderen. Her belv grunden lagt til et stabilt og levedygtigt byvæsen efter en hektisk anlæggelsesperiode. De fleste af vore dages større byer og store dele af vores bymæssige kultu…
Renæssancens befæstede byer handler om de gennemgribende forandringer af byer og borgerkultur fra middelalderen til renæssancen. Set fra byernes perspektiv var renæssancen først præget af velstand og blomstrende…
"Elephants are not picked from trees" are the words of Swedish taxidermist and conservator David Sjolander, spoken while he was in Angola looking for a fine bull elephant specimen in the autumn of 1948. At the age of 62 Sjolander was to satisfy his…
1900-1950. Et halvt arhundrede, der gor Danmark moderne og helt igen, for Sonderjylland kommer hjem i 1920.Det politiske system knAesAetter parlamentarismen, mens funktionalismen blomstrer. I resten af Europa raser Forste Verdenskrig, mens vi giver…
We have evolved to enjoy sleep, sex and sweets - and so we do. But negativity permeates our lives too: we are drawn to murder and violence on the news; we remember the schoolyard bully as if it was yesterday, and we are taught to accept boring educa…
Classical and modern foreign language studies no longer have a well-defined subject area, and language and culture can no longer be defined according to nations and national identities. New approaches are being developed with theoretical and methodo…
Hysteriker med forfølgelsesvanvid, reaktionær parlamentariker eller profetisk intellektuel? Edmund Burke var en ledende politisk tænker i 1700-tallet og regnes for konservatismens fader. Men Burkes værk er modsætningsfyldt og svært at forstå - og ha…
Dansk slaverihistorie er ikke slut. Selvom det er 100 ar siden, at Danmark solgte De Vestindiske Oer til USA, spoger slaveriet stadig. Arven fra kolonitiden er bade velkendt og ukendt, fortrAengt og forklaret, og det stiller krav til os om bade vide…
Narratologi er teorien om fortAellinger. Forstaet i snAever forstand hAenger narratologi sammen med den franske strukturalisme og med studiet af litterAere teksters forlob, struktur og udsigelse. I dag anvendes narratologi som samlebetegnelse for et…
Drawing on both textual and archaeological sources, this book discusses how Christians in Late Antiquity negotiated the sculptural environment of cities and sanctuaries in a variety of ways, ranging from creative transformations to iconoclastic perf…
Hvordan påvirker det et mennesbarn og et menneskeliv at være af jødisk familie, barn under 2. verdenskrig og have været indsat i koncentrationslejren Theresienstadt? Der er i dag kun få overlevende fra 2. verdensk…
Forholdet mellem religion og samfund er under forandring. I flere artier har vi talt meget lidt om religion i det offentlige rum, men i dag fylder det religiose langt mere i politiske diskussioner - og i medierne. Religion som forklaring? udforsker…
This book engages the complex relationship between family, religion and migration. Following '9/11' much research on migrants in western societies has focused on the public and political dimensions of religion. This volume starts out 'from below', e…
Hvordan lyder en fåreflok i et symfoniorkester? Og hvordan lyder det, når Don Juan forfører tre kvinder og hjemsøges af deres spøgelser? Dette og mere til får læseren svar på i d…
Maske begynder vort vagne liv i fornemmelse, tro og forstaelse?Maske Aestetik, teologi og filosofi er tre sider af samme sag?Den skonne tAenkning er den forste systematiske formulering af erfaringsmetafysik. Bogen beskriver grundlaget for en filosof…
Over the course of the last 30 years, many new settlements, in particular from the Late Iron Age, have been discovered in Denmark as a result of energetic and persistent surveying of the landscape by metal-detector enthusiasts. Only a few metal-rich…
This book is based on extensive research in assessment and treatment of patients with functional disorders and provides a thorough background to functional disorders as well as the etiology, classification and treatment of the disorders. The book pr…
Historikerne har haft meget at sige om middelalderens konger. Hvem har ikke hort om Harald Blatand, Valdemar Atterdag og Christian 2.? Kongerne og deres store bedrifter er fast pensum og en integreret del af vores fAelles historiebevidsthed. Men hva…
This book presents a comprehensive and systematic description of the underlying pedagogy inherent in doctoral supervision and its institutional context. It argues that doctoral supervision relies on an advanced form of pedagogy that is often tacit f…
In the Danish West Indies, hundreds of enslaved men and women and a handful of Danish judges engaged in a broken, often distorted dialogue in court. Their dialogue was shaped by a shared concern with the ways slavery clashed with sexual norms and fa…
I et samarbejde mellem DR, Aarhus Universitet og Arhundredets Festival i Aarhus udgiver Aarhus Universitetsforlag nu et nyt flermedialt, elevhenvendt undervisningsmateriale til gymnasiet. Det dAekker 13 forskellige fag. Lige sa mange gymnasielAerere…
Knut Hamsuns debutroman Sult fra 1890 gjorde ham med et slag beromt. Andre forfattere kanoniserede den hurtigt som en forbilledlig kulttekst og et inspirerende hovedvAerk: Den navnlose helts usikre observationer og plagede dromme, hans nervesitrende…
UdlAendinge forbloffes over, at man pa koreture gennem det danske sommerland stoder pa ubemandede boder med friske jordbAer, sprode asparges og en lille cigarkasse med byttepenge. Endnu mere forbloffende er det, at bodens ejer om aftenen kan hente e…
De unge trives ikke, de drikker, tager stoffer, er ligeglade med politik, bruger for mange ar pa deres uddannelser og er afhAengige af sociale medier. Ser vi kun nyhedsmediernes overskrifter, har vi grund til at vAere bekymrede for vores unge. Men d…
Escapism of Operations Research
Kunstens fortAellinger kan supplere med nye vinkler pa nutidens psykosociale problemer med appetit, som hidtil har vAeret domineret af biologiske forklaringer.Ifolge bogen Tantaluskvaler beskriver den knap sa kendte klassiske myte om Tantalus samtid…
Damascus, capital of the Ottoman province of Syria and one of the most important centres of the classical Muslim World, faced the same developments in the 19th century as other urban centres in the Mediterranean area and beyond. In the course of the…
This work contains the first comprehensive study of Nepalese voters. It is based on hour-long interviews with 1000 Nepalese voters spread over the Himalayan kingdom. The survey was conducted immediately after the general election in May 1991, the fi…
The Islamic term "fatwa" became known in the West after Ayatollah Khomeini's death sentence in 1989 on Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses'. Mehdi Mozaffari reviews the history of the fatwa from its origins and its evolution to the pres…
Med Antikkens verden afslutter Aarhus Universitetsforlag sin store serie om den europAeiske kultur- og idehistorie. Antikkens kultur havde sit udspring i GrAekenland og Romerriget og pavirkede hele Middelhavsomradet og Mellemosten. Men antikken Dani…
The Saturated Sensorium is a book about the senses and their media in the Middle Ages: a book about what it meant to sense and perceive something. The book highlights the integrated and unified nature of medieval senses and media. It discusses the i…
Vi gifter os ikke af kAerlighed. Vi gifter os, far born, holder sammen eller oploser et forhold pa baggrund af noget langt mere handgribeligt og tAelleligt. Penge. Okonomi.Vores overvejelser og forhabninger er rationelle og egennyttige og handler dy…
The Thule Culture - the ancestors of the present day Inuit - never ceases to fascinate and spur archaeological and ethno-historical research. As a tribute to the most distinguished specialist in the Thule Culture of the Eastern Arctic, research prof…
For 2.500 ar siden, i begyndelsen af Aeldre jernalder, var landskabet prAeget af et helt usAedvanligt fAenomen. Kilometerlange band af tAetliggende huller - hulbAelter - strakte sig gennem landskabet. Det forste hulbAelte blev opdaget i 1966. I dag…
These eleven essays by historians, political scientists, sociologists and anthropologists establish a foundation for appreciating the political history of Central Europe. By examining the political landscape in each country, the contributors aim to…
Hvordan skaber man tekster, hvor emner, argumenter og forestillinger star lysende klart frem? Denne bog svarer, at topisk tAenkning kan lAere os at na hele vejen rundt om en sag, nar vi skriver. Det grAeske ord topos betyder sted, og kunsten er neto…
Oplysningstiden er kendt for sin optimistiske tro pa den menneskelige fornuft, pa nytten af viden og oplysning. Mindre kendt er derimod dens fascination - bade i tAenkningen og i kunsten - af det irrationelle og af eksperimenter, ikke mindst med kro…
Teknologi er en uomgAengelig del af det moderne arbejdsliv. Tekniske apparater udvikles og udskiftes med stadig storre hastighed. Af og til bryder de sammen eller har utilsigtede konsekvenser. Man kan derfor ikke en gang for alle lAere, hvordan tekn…
This collection of papers is from the Ninth European Conference on the Philosophy of Religion held at the University of Aarhus, Denmark in August 1992. The theme of the conference was theism and its modern alternatives. Why alternatives? There is no…
Vi befinder os altid her og nu, et eller andet sted i rum og tid. Men hvad er rum og tid egentlig? Verdensbilleder fortAeller historien om, hvordan vores opfattelse af rum og tid har Aendret sig i takt med fysikkens og den tekniske udviklings fremsk…
Most studies of Roman local administration focus on the formal structures of power: imperial laws, urban institutions and magistracies. This book explores the interplay of formal power with informal factors such as social prejudice, parochialism and…
This volume is the outcome of an international conference on landscape archaeology. It includes 15 contributions from participants from six different countries, who analyse the territories of the main ancient cities of the west, north and south coas…
