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Inequalities in early life mortality:Exploring sex, social class and place as risk factors of death in nineteenth and early twentieth century Denmark
Get PDFAnders Ravn Sørensen og Benjamin Asmussen: Tror du på forbandelser?
No full textTror du på forbandelser? Kan et maleri være forbandet? I denne episode har vi besøg af Anders Ravn Sørensen og Benjamin Asmussen, hvor vi sammen dykker ned i deres bog 'Maleriets forbandelse – Jagten på et kunstværk og dets ejere', som fortæller den fængslende historie om et portræt malet af Jens Juel i slutningen af 1700-tallet. Portrættet, bestilt af en bogholder i det mægtige Asiatisk Kompagni, blev hurtigt et symbol på rigdom og status. Men da bogholderen i 1783 bliver indblandet i en kæmpe svindelsag, tvinges han til at gå fra hus og hjem, og portrættet begynder at bære et ry af ulykke og forbandelse – også til de senere ejere og helt frem til i dag. Lyt med og følg maleriets rejse sammen med os, hvor vi møder de forskellige ejere, der alle på en eller anden måde rammes af ulykke – fra sygdom og selvmord til økonomiske ruin
Materials and ephemerality in the 17th century:the making of artistic firework sculptures during the reign of Christian IV of Denmark
No full textNetværk for historisk GIS og geodata
No full textNetværket udspringer af det tidligere HisKIS-netværk (Historisk kartografisk informationssystem), som siden 2003 har været samlingssted for arbejdet med historisk GIS og formidling af historiske geodata. Tiden var imidlertid modentil at finde en ny organiseringsform og et nyt – og mere sigende – navn
Cows Looking Back:Agriculture and Life in 19th Century Landscape Paintings
No full textNarratives of growth and yield are pervasive when the history of Danish agriculture is written, and works of art are often used to illustrate the story. But what kind of world can art open up for us when it is not only seen to be illustrating a development, but looks back at us through the eyes of the cows? What story do the artists let the cows tell? This article looks at works purchased for SMK – National Gallery of Denmark in the period 1880 to 1900, a time when the industrialisation of Danish agriculture took off in earnest. The article investigates how the artworks reflect the overall change in our relationship with the world which took place when the cow became a production animal instead of an ally
There and back again: local institutions, an Uruk expansion and the rejection of centralisation in the Sirwan/Upper Diyala region
Get PDFDuring the fourth millennium BC, public institutionsdeveloped at several large settlements across greaterMesopotamia. These are widely acknowledged as thefirst cities and states, yet surprisingly little is knownabout their emergence, functioning and demise.Here, the authors present new evidence of public institutionsat the site of Shakhi Kora in the lower Sirwan/upperDiyala river valley of north-east Iraq. A sequenceof four Late Chalcolithic institutional households precedespopulation dispersal and the apparent regionalrejection of centralised social forms of organisationthat were not then revisited for almost 1500 years.During the fourth millennium BC, public institutions developed at several large settlements across greater Mesopotamia. These are widely acknowledged as the first cities and states, yet surprisingly little is known about their emergence, functioning and demise. Here, the authors present new evidence of public institutions at the site of Shakhi Kora in the lower Sirwan/upper Diyala river valley of north-east Iraq. A sequence of four Late Chalcolithic institutional households precedes population dispersal and the apparent regional rejection of centralised social forms of organisation that were not then revisited for almost 1500 years