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…
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…
When the Greek island of Santorini, classically known as Thera, erupted dramatically in 1613 BC (+/- 13 years), it produced one of the largest explosions ever witnessed, thereby possibly giving rise to the legend of Atlantis. This so-called 'Minoan'…
The two volumes of 'The Archaeology of Medieval Europe' will together comprise the first complete account of medieval archaeology across Europe. Archaeologists from academic institutions in fifteen countries are collaborating to produce these two bo…
The two volumes of The Archaeology of Medieval Europe together comprise the first complete account of Medieval Archaeology across the continent. This ground-breaking set will enable readers to track the development of different cultures and regions…
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…
What are the global and cross-cultural phenomena of religion anyway? They are not things-in-the-world, not things "in themselves," and yet we know they are very real because they constitute the means by which we make up our lives. As thought, langua…
During the last decade, many social scientists have sought to show that nature is not an eternal constant but an intrinsically unstable concept - a historical, cultural and social construct with powerful emotional, moral and political connotations.…
During the Enlightenment, other peoples, and also their cultures, were much discussed, with debates often focusing on their value as human beings and the level of tolerance that they were to be granted. Books on 'outer worlds', classified in librari…
The purpose of this book is to discuss and state main problems and methodologies in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeological research today. The volume contains 14 articles written by Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeological researchers and the…
This is a book on the rise and fall of diasporic communities in Early Modern urban centers in Denmark and Sweden. It contains 17 chapters written by archaeologists, historians and scientists, ranging from in-depth studies of artefacts, biofacts and…
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…
When Johan Furuhjelm was offered the governorship of Russian America in 1858, the 37-year-old Finnish officer found himself in a quandary. He needed a wife to support him in the new post, with its mix of mercantile and administrative responsibilitie…
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…
Maleren P.C. Skovgaard (1817-1875) var en af guldalderens og nationalromantikkens væsentligste kunstnere. Han arbejdede nært sammen med tidens største kulturpersonligheder, og både hans landskabsmalerier og intime portr&aeli…
Text in German. The publication, in two volumes, examines the fifteenth-century masterpiece by the German artist, Jost Amman, and shoemaker and poet, Hans Sachs. Volume I contains a facsimile and transcription of the Book of Trades (Standebuch) prin…
I slutningen af det 20. arhundrede troede de fleste, at radioen ville blive fortidens medium i kraft af web-mediets sejrsgang. Men i dag lever radioen i bedste velgaende pa nye prAemisser, og den er med stor succes blevet integreret i det 21. arhund…
Danmarks Radio har sendt musik ud i æteren siden 1925. Dengang var der én radio for alle, og lyden af musik, nyheder, hørespil og sport gjorde radioen til en selvfølgelig del af hverdagen. Efterhånden åbnede Da…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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…
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…
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…
