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  • Health and Society in Early Modern Sweden

    Edited by Mari Eyice, Charlotta Forss ...
    Series series Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability
    The understanding of what health is and how it can be maintained has changed through history. Questions like who can perform healing? and what sort of bodies are considered healthy? have elicited widely divergent responses in different societies. This volume explores how health was understood and practiced in the early modern Nordic region, with a focus on Sweden, including Finland. The chapters ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • The Bookshop of the World

    Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age

    by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen ...
    The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles.The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the marvel that was the Dutch Republic. Yet there is another, largely overlooked marvel in the Dutch world of the seventeenth century: ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion

    Edited by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Raisa Maria Toivo ...
    Series series History (R0)
    'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural, political and social place of religion in ... Read more

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  • Henrik Ibsen

    A Dolls House

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    A Norwegian writer and artist Henrik Ibsen is considered as the dad of Modern Theater. He is likewise alluded as the dad of authenticity. After Shakespeare, he is considered as the second most persuasive and canny writer and artist of the nineteenth century. Ibsen was brought into the world on twentieth March 1828 in the city Skien, Norway. Henrik Ibsen was the oldest of his five kin. He had a ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • The Swedish Theory of Love

    Individualism and Social Trust in Modern Sweden

    by Henrik Berggren, Lars Trägårdh ...
    Translated by Stephen Donovan ...
    Series series New Directions in Scandinavian Studies
    In 2020 Sweden's response to COVID-19 drew renewed attention to the Nordic nation in a way that put the finger on a seeming paradox. Long celebrated for its commitment to social solidarity, Sweden suddenly emerged as the last country in the West to resist lockdown while defending individual rights and responsibilities. To explain these contradictions, Henrik Berggren and Lars Trägårdh argue that ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

    by Judith Pollmann ...
    For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important to be left to historians alone. Memory in Early Modern Europe offers a lively and accessible introduction to the many ways in which Europeans engaged with the past and 'practised' memory in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800. From ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Bavinck

    A Critical Biography

    by James Eglinton ...
    **2020 Book Award Winner, The Gospel Coalition (History & Biography)2020 For the Church Book Award**Dutch Calvinist theologian Herman Bavinck, a significant voice in the development of Protestant theology, remains relevant many years after his death. His four-volume Reformed Dogmatics is one of the most important theological works of the twentieth century.James Eglinton is widely considered to be ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • A Tiny Spot on the Earth

    The Political Culture of the Netherlands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    Translated by Vivien Collingwood ...
    by Piet de Rooy ...
    In this survey of the Dutch political culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Piet de Rooy reveals that the 'polder model' often used to describe economic and social policymaking based on consensus is a myth. Instead, modern political culture in the Dutch Low Countries began with a revolution and is rife with rivalries among political and ideological factions. De Rooy argues that ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Thraldom

    A History of Slavery in the Viking Age

    by Stefan Brink ...
    Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scandinavians in the early Middle Ages lived in a society foreign to us, characterized by different and shifting social statuses. ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • Idioms of Sámi Health and Healing

    by Earle H. Waugh ...
    Series Book 2 - Patterns of Northern Traditional Healing Series
    The Sámi—Indigenous people of northernmost Europe—have relied on Traditional Healing methods over generations. This pioneering volume documents, in accessible language, local healing traditions and demonstrates the effectiveness of using the resources local communities can provide. This collection of essays by ten experts also records how ancient healing traditions and modern health-care systems ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Tracing Old Norse Cosmology: The world tree, middle earth and the sun in archaeological perspectives

    by Anders Andrén ...
    The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail by a vast number of scholars. They have long relied on the rich and varied Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages, but a growing body of material culture from pagan Scandinavia has ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Liquidation of the Church

    by Kees de Groot ...
    Series series Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
    Is religion dying out in Western societies? Is personal spirituality taking its place? Both stories are inadequate. Institutional religion is not simply coming to an end in Western societies. Rather, its assets and properties are redistributed: large parts of the church have gone into liquidation. Religion is crossing the boundaries of the parish and appears in other social contexts. In the fields ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD