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The Danish Archaeological Expedition to Hama in Syria in the 1930s discovered an ancient town lived in for thousands of years. Members of the Expedition also fell in love with the town around the ancient mound, which they explored on their days off. The archive of the Expedition is held by the National Museum of Denmark. Rare, gritty photos of bustling city life are interspersed with strictly composed artwork, where the past appears in vivid c...

This book offers a transcription and translation into modern English of a unique and spectacularly illustrated sixteenth-century manuscript on war and festival culture during the reign of the Danish King Frederik II (r.

New comprehensive and illustrated biography of the most influential Dane in modern Denmark: N.F.S. Grundtvig.

Identifying particular cultural immune systems, notably ritual, law, and education, Sorensen argues that these actively align participants with the predominant cultural style of a social group, and regulate interaction at different levels of social complexity.

A history of Denmark depicts how Denmark, the Danish kingdom and the Danish state have developed and changed over more than a thousand years. In each of the book's nine chapters, researchers from Aarhus University focus on Denmark's political, cultural, social and international conditions.

The costumes and ritual equipment presented in this volume were obtained from shamans in Mongolia and Siberia and represent today a unique cultural world heritage.

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Examines the role of social trust in economic and social happiness in Scandinavia.

Historical political biography is a popular genre, capable of reaching a wide audience. It is also a genre closely associated with the modern nation-state. It often recounts the lives of great men in the service of the nation, but is there a way beyond this methodological nationalism? This book revisits biography as a historical and narrative genre. It explores and explicates the new analytical potentials of political biographical research in ...

An emerging interest in group guidance, collective forms, and integrative approaches is evident in Denmark and serves to contest a conventional individualistic mode of delivery. The latter being criticised for being both resource heavy and in risk of contributing to feelings of failure in those who are less successful with educational outcomes or employment. By showing how guidance activities can develop within the community generally, the boo...

Researchers often point to Scandinavia, and Denmark especially, as a model of a prosperous and well-functioning state, in this book the author discusses the formula required for this and how other countries can replicate it.

User Innovation Management (UIM) is a method for co-operation with users in innovation projects. The UIM method emphasizes the practice of participatory attitude. This book introduces the UIM method, offering a perspective for understanding user-driven innovation. It includes three themes for organizing and conducting user-driven innovation and gives a set of techniques to support user-driven innovation processes. The book is written for pract...

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The Danish scholar and critic Georg Brandes (1842-1927) is still recognized for his work today and seen by many as the theorist behind the so-called Modern Breakthrough in Scandinavia.

The book shows the importance of experiences traditionally categorized as religious or aesthetic for our understanding of, e.g., art, faith, prayer, presence, beauty, sensitivity, imagination, susceptibility, and divinity.

In 2017 an exceptionally rich equestrian burial from the 10th century was discovered at Fregerslev near Skanderborg, Denmark. The burial contained a high-status horseman, buried with valuable grave goods.

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