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Author
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2025]
Description
Als eine Gruppe von Isländern zusammen mit Erik dem Roten in Grönland siedelte, waren sie da von einem Gefühl von "european supremacy" beseelt? Waren entsprechend die Begegnungen zwischen den Grönländern und indigenen Gruppen in der Arktis und in Nordamerika von Rassismus geprägt, ebenso wie die kolonialen Begegnungen in denselben Gegenden einige hundert Jahre später? Grönland und das nördliche Fennoskandien sind heute postkoloniale Gesellschaften....
Author
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
The significance of religion for the development of modern racist antisemitism is a much debated topic in the study of Jewish-Christian relations. This book, the first study on antisemitism in nineteenth-century Sweden, provides new insights into the debate from the specific case of a country in which religious homogeneity was the considered ideal long into the modern era.Between 1800 and 1900, approximately 150 books and pamphlets were printed in...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
This anthology is about the representations and uses of medieval saints, heroes, and heroic events as elements of popular, local, and national culture during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Baltic Sea region: Scandinavia, Finland, Baltic countries, Northern Germany and North-Western Russia. Authors examine the processes of how medieval saints and heroes have been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, used, and reflected during modernity, and by...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
The book investigates the multifaceted entanglements between the many pasts and presents of the Nordic medieval period and colonialism. The edited volume contributes to the untangling of questions concerning how present, recent, and past structures of colonialism affect historiography on the medieval Nordic past. Consisting of thematically diverse chapters, the book brings together a range of approaches related to medieval colonialism in a Nordic...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Is research on antisemitism even necessary in countries with a relatively small Jewish population? Absolutely, as this volume shows. Compared to other countries, research on antisemitism in the Nordic countries (Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) is marginalized at an institutional and staffing level, especially as far as antisemitism beyond German fascism, the Second World War, and the Holocaust is concerned....
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Due to the scarcity of sources regarding actual Jewish and Muslim communities and settlements, there has until now been little work on either the perception of or encounters with Muslims and Jews in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region. The volume provides the reader with the possibility to appreciate and understand the complexity of Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the medieval North. The contributions cover topics such as cultural and...