‘A lover of light’: in 1912, a French critic used these words to describe the great Danish painter Peder Severin Krøyer, who had close ties to the Fre…

Six years of excavations in Tell F3 have uncovered several occupation phases belonging to the middle of the 2nd millennium BC, Failaka period 3B (c. 1…

Cultural differences are often the trigger for conflict – whether politically motivated or arising from dissonant understandings of national culture.…

In 1493, King Hans of Denmark and Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow concluded one of the earliest treaties of alliance between a Catholic European and a…

Nordic children’s books and media have changed greatly over the past 250 years. Form and content, materiality, concepts of childhood, and media techno…

In-Between: Exploring Small Cracks of Everyday Life is an anthology comprising contributions from a group of social scientists all preoccupied with th…

Volumes 15,4 (134 pages) and 15,5 (247 pages, 259 ill., 45 A3 plates) are conceived as a single volume (III.1–2) comprised of two fascicules. III.1:…

In the early Middle Ages, a network of maritime trading towns – emporia – emerged along the northern coasts of Europe. These early urban sites are amo…

What do we mean when we say "the people"? In a Nordic context, the word "people" was historically associated not with members of a sovereign nation bu…

Urban planning was a keystone in the materialization of the Nordic welfare states. The post-war urban landscape was characterized by division of funct…

Old men – especially those who live alone – remain an understudied group in the gerontological literature, despite their significance to the demograph…

Hospitalized following a mental health crisis in 1929, Louis Marcussen (1894-1985) begins a spectacular journey. He starts to produce paintings, papie…