Publications
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The Music Theory of Harald Vallerius
(2012)
This book presents a detailed examination of the music theoretical writings of Harald Vallerius, a Swedish scholar and composer active during the 17th century. This volume includes three key dissertations connected to ...
Enchanted Reception
(2025)
This volume offers a series of cross-cultural, in-depth studies of twelfth- to fifteenth-century medieval Troy narratives, mainly romances. Source texts are situated across a wide range of language traditions and include ...
A Typology and Classification of Three Literary Genres
(2016)
The present study explores the definition, distinctive features and classification of three genres of children’s oral literature, taraneh, matal and afsaneh. It also presents new findings regarding the unique linguistic ...
Not Composed in a Chance Manner
(2017)
The Epitaphios for the emperor Manuel I Komnenos (r. 1143-1180) by the eminent scholar bishop, Eustathios of Thessalonike, is one of the longest and most ambitious political eulogies of the Byzantine era. Delivered during ...
Georg Stiernhielm. Linguistic works, volume 2
(2023)
This is the second of two volumes that provide a textual edition of the linguistic writings of the Swedish polymath Georg Stiernhielm (1598–1672). On the basis of his unpublished manuscripts and early prints, this volume ...
Georg Stiernhielm. Linguistic works, volume 1
(2023)
This is the first of two volumes that provide a textual edition of the linguistic works of the Swedish Renaissance polymath Georg Stiernhielm (1598–1672). On the basis of his unpublished manuscripts, the majority of ...
Spatial Paths to Holiness
(2023)
This book explores literary spatialities, that is the notion of space and its agency in comprehending the deeper plot and meaning of two eleventh-century Byzantine hagiographical texts: the Life of St Lazaros from Mount ...
Unheard Voices Twenty-one short stories in Balochi with English translations. Collected and edited by Carina Jahani, Nagoman Baloch and Taj Baloch (Góshán Nakaptagén Tawár : Balóchiay bist o yakk ázmánk gón Engrézi rajánkán. Nazz árók: Káriná Jaháni, Nágomán Balóch o Táj Balóch)
(2022)
This book presents twenty one Balochi short stories in Balochi-Latin and Balochi-Arabic script, as well as English translations and introductions of the authors in English. The stories have been edited to correspond to the ...
The Missing Link?
(2021)
The period of the 16th–18th centuries, when the Safavids were one of the major political powers in the region, is an important era for Persian linguistic evolution. New Persian was the literary language and lingua franca ...
A Grammar of Modern Standard Balochi
(2019)
Balochi is an Iranian language spoken in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, the Gulf States (particularly Oman and the United Arab Emirates), Turkmenistan, India, and East Africa. Informal estimates suggest that no less than 10 ...
Narrative Structure of Wakhi Oral Stories
(2017)
The Wakhi people live in the remote areas of the high Pamir mountains. Their original homeland is situated in the Wakhan Corridor in the Badakhshan region, and is divided by the border between southeast Tajikistan and ...
Transformative Role-playing Game Design
(2025)
This textbook describes theory and practice in analog role-playing game (RPG) design that encourage specific transformative impacts in participants, including tabletop, live action role-playing (larp), and Nordic and ...
Alla språk i skolan
(2025)
In our multilingual societies, communication and collaboration between people are more important than ever. One of the school’s most important missions is therefore to provide students with opportunities to develop their ...
Birgittine Chantscapes
(2025)
This book takes the reader on a 800 year long journey through the chant and liturgy of the Order of the Birgittines investigating liturgical books from the Birgittine abbeys in Vadstena, Mariënwater/Maria Refugie (the ...
Human Rights as Ethics, Politics, and Law
(2014)
This study offers a critical approach to the connections between the law, politics, and morality as they figure in human rights discourse. It argues that human rights must be understood – ethically, politically, and legally ...
Vikings in the East
(2013)
It has been a tradition to write about ‘Vikings’ and ‘Varangians’ within the framework of national histories of Scandinavia. However, it is known that most of them were outsiders in the local societies of the respective ...
Integration mot alla odds?
(2024)
Can an Object Love?
(2024)
Philologists not only investigate, but also tell the story of philology – this loving study of the words, the texts, the narratives of the past. Every instance of philological research is accordingly part of its history ...
Antisemitic Discourse and Historical Amnesia in Bosnia
(2024)
In 2017 a conflict erupted among the Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was related to identity and self-image, in particular the role of Bosnian Muslims during World War II. Highly sensitive but seldom discussed issues ...
The Music in the Finspong Collection
(2022)
The Finspong collection (Finspongssamlingen), kept in the Norrköping City Library, constitutes one of the largest historical book collections in Sweden, comprising about 35,000 volumes. It includes a considerable amount ...
A Catalogue of Christian Arabic Bible Translations at the British Library
(2024)
The present work contains records of the Christian Arabic Bible translations and Bible commentaries that are kept at the Department of Asian and African Studies at the British Library. Many of these manuscripts have ...