Browsing Det humanistiske fakultet (HF) by Journals "Scandinavian Journal of History"
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The case of Adam Jacobsen. Enslavement in eighteenth-century Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The article explores the life of Adam Jacobsen, an enslaved man who was trafficked from the Danish West Indies to the small town of Arendal in southern Norway sometime around 1780. By using the micro-spatial perspective ... -
Discovering the North: Francesco Negri’s and Giuseppe Acerbi’s journeys to Norway in the 17th and 18th centuries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The aim of this article is to present the journeys of two Italian travellers, Francesco Negri and Giuseppe Acerbi, who visited Norway in 1663 and the late 1700s, respectively. Despite being the first Italians to explore ... -
Inheritance in Family Business. The "Long" Merchant Family: Problems Concerning Generation Change
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2002)This article deals with how problems of generation change were dealt with in merchant houses in a Norwegian city in the period 1680-1820. Mobilization of networks, marriage strategies, careful distribution of inheritance ... -
Kings and aristocratic elites: communicating power and status in medieval Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The article investigates the decisive developments of interactions between the Norwegian crown and the aristocratic elites in twelfth and thirteenth century Norway. It reflects on how the issues of social dignity, pre-eminence ... -
Labour and coercion in the Nordic region in the early modern period: connections, ambiguities, practices
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This introduction discusses the constitutive role played by various practices of coercion within a range of labour relations across the Nordic region in the early modern period. In recent years a growing body of international ... -
The Shovel is our Weapon: The Norwegian Labour Service and the paradox of nationalist internationalism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)There are many functional, organizational and ideational similarities between the labour services in Germany, the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD) and in Norway, Arbeidstjenesten (AT). There were numerous conduits for transnational ...