Swedish Dissertations and Their Subjects, 1600–1820 (Volume One)

An Annotated Catalogue

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This book challenges previous notions of early modern dissertations as unimaginative academic exercises. It argues for their continuous importance in the scholarly and scientific discourse, and describes the richness and diversity of their subjects and themes. The book contains a complete catalogue of the almost twenty thousand Swedish dissertations defended in Uppsala, Lund and Åbo between 1600 and 1820. The catalogue includes longer comments about and descriptions of a few thousand of these dissertations, and also provides an analysis of how different subjects have evolved over time.
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2024
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Mattias Kärrholm, Ph.D. (2004, Lund University) is Professor of Architectural Theory at Lund University, Sweden. His research interests include territoriality, spatial types and urbanity, as well as academic culture and book history. His latest book, coauthored with Andrea Mubi Brighenti, is Animated Lands: Studies in Territoriology (University of Nebraska Press, 2020).
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables

Part 1: Introduction


1 Early Swedish Dissertations
 1 Swedish Disputations and Dissertations
 2 Languages
 3 The Social Function
 4 Formats, Bindings and Illustrations
 5 The End of the Dissertation System
 6 Texts and Bibliographies on Dissertations

2 Subjects and Topics of Swedish Dissertations
 1 Introduction to Dissertation Subjects
 2 An Overview of the Material and the Subjects
 3 Religion
 4 Philosophy
 5 Natural Sciences and Medicine
 6 History
 7 Languages and Literature
 8 Law
 9 Economics and Technology
 10 Social Sciences
 11 Geography
 22 Ethnology and Arts

Part 2: The Catalogue


3 Introduction to the Catalogue
 1 The Structure and Logic of the Catalogue Description
 2 Libraries
 3 List of Praeses

4 The Catalogue
Appendix: Tables of Subjects
Bibliography
 Index of Praeses
 Index of Respondents
 Index of Subjects and Topics
All interested in book history, academic history and the diffusion of knowledge, as well as the history of science and ideas from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Keywords: dissertations, disputations, theses, academic print, early modern history, book history, bibliography, history of science, history of ideas, paratexts, academic disciplines, higher education, Sweden, Lund University, Uppsala University, Åbo University.
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