Culture and Mobility in the Early Modern Era

1.9.2026 - 31.5.2027

5 cr

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The course expands upon the knowledge acquired by the students in their previous studies concerning cultural and intellectual phenomena in Finland and the Baltic Sea region during the early modern era. Students delve into various forms of mobility related to e.g. trade, elite culture, work, and learning, as well as the local impact of mobility in rural and urban cultural settings.

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Fields

Humanities

Scope

5 cr

Code

HIST0230

The students deepen their knowledge of the intellectual and cultural history of Finland in the early modern era, within the context of broader interaction with Sweden, the Eastern Baltic region, and Europe as a whole. Upon completion of the study section, the students comprehend how the mobility of people, goods, knowledge, and arts has shaped society and worldviews in the Baltic Sea region during the early modern era. Furthermore, the students are equipped to apply their acquired knowledge in their theses.

Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden. Travel, Migration and Material Transformations, 1500–1800. Ed. by Magdalena Naum & Fredrik Ekengren (2018). 385 pages.

Sweden in the eighteenth-century world. Provincial cosmopolitans. Ed. by Göran Rydén (2013), pp. 1–37, 95–119, 147–199, 224–246, 325–334. 144 pages.

Wolff, Charlotta: Noble conceptions of politics in eighteenth-century Sweden (ca 1740–1790) (2008), pp. 9–125. 114 pages.

Organiser

University of Turku

Contact details

avoin@utu.fi

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