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Browsing Doktorsritgerðir- HÍ by Department "Faculty of History and Philosophy (UI)"
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2018-12-12)This thesis aims to refine the accuracy and precision of radiocarbon (14C) datasets in order to better understand the timing of archaeological and palaeoenvironmental events relating to important issues like mobility, colonisation, human impacts and ... -
(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2022)Archaeology has been fundamentally entangled in colonial power dynamics and nationalist schemes. This entanglement is clearly evident in Iceland, as our discipline has been, and continues to be, a vital tool in shaping and reshaping the Icelandic ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2018-11)This dissertation draws upon philosopher Pierre Hadot’s conception of philosophy as a way of life, which views philosophy as a process of self-transformation through engaging in practices (which Hadot characterizes as spiritual exercises) alongside ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2022-05-03)This thesis explores the meaning of medicine and considers ethical challenges that arise when medicine's limits are tested as it enters new grounds. The methodology and argumentation used in the thesis can be described as a two-step process. In the ...
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(Háskóli Íslands, Hugvísindasvið, Sagnfræði- og heimspekideild, 2016-09)Þessi ritgerð er unnin út frá heimildum um tímabil sem tvær heilbrigðisstarfsstéttir á Íslandi gengu í gegnum á 120 árum, frá 1760–1880. Læknastétt var eingöngu skipuð körlum en í yfirsetukvennastétt gátu bæði lærðir sem ólærðir karlar og konur ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2021-03)Volcanic eruptions can cause significant human health and environmental threats both during and after their event due to the hazardous materials and gases that are actively or passively released into the surrounding environment. Historical records ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2022-12-20)Viðfangsefni doktorsritgerðarinnar er að draga fram heimildasöfn (e. archives) og greina þá efnismenningu (e. material culture) sem þau búa yfir, eða með öðrum orðum að kanna samband manna og hluta. Rannsóknaraðferðin krefst þess að víða sé leitað fanga ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2022)Ráðskonur eiga sér langa sögu í íslensku samfélagi. Meginmarkmið rannsóknarinnar er að rannsaka störf og félagslega stöðu ráðskvenna sem störfuðu á einkaheimilum í sveit á Íslandi á tímabilinu 1950–2000. Í bakgrunnskafla er einnig fjallað stuttlega um ...
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(Háskóli Íslands, Hugvísindasvið, Sagnfræði- og heimspekideild, 2015-02)This thesis is a study of the aesthetics of Icelandic landscapes. The aim of the thesis is to gain a deeper understanding of the meaning of landscape and the values which are derived from the aesthetic experience of Icelandic landscapes, and to think ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2023-08)The PhD thesis, Images in seals of chapters and bishops in the medieval dioceses of Norway and Iceland, is an innovative study on the imagery in the seals of chapters and bishops in the medieval dioceses of Norway and Iceland in the time frame of ca ...
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(Háskóli Íslands, Hugvísindasvið, Sagnfræði- og heimspekideild, 2022-02)Í þessari ritgerð er fjallað um handritasöfnun Jóns Sigurðssonar forseta. Markmið hennar er þríþætt. Í fyrsta lagi að varpa ljósi á tilgang söfnunarinnar og þá hvata er lágu þar að baki, í öðru lagi að skoða þær deilur er spruttu í kjölfar hennar og ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2023-05-02)Ritgerð þessi fjallar um mótun frjálsrar verslunar undir hlutleysisstefnu danskra stjórnvalda á árabilinu 1751–1791. Á þeim tíma unnu dönsk stjórnvöld að því að afnema einokun í skrefum og koma á frjálsri verslun. Í þessu tilliti hafði Ísland og ...
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(Háskóli Íslands, Hugvísindasvið, Sagnfræði- og heimspekideild, 2017-06)Bandaríkjamaðurinn Willard Fiske, prófessor í norrænum fræðum og bókavörður í Cornell-háskóla í Íþöku, New York-fylki árin 1868–1883 eignaðist næststærsta safn íslenskra rita utan Íslands, aðeins Konunglega bókasafnið í Kaupmannahöfn varðveitti meira ...
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(Háskóli Íslands, Hugvísindasvið, Sagnfræði- og heimspekideild, 2020-09-08)Ísland var lén í Danmörku. Rekstur þess og stjórnsýsla var sambærileg við önnur lén innan danska ríkisins. Vestmannaeyjar voru ekki hluti af léninu Íslandi. Í rannsókninni er leitast við að sýna fram á hver staða Íslands var innan danska ríkisins og ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2021-05-23)Claims about human nature are unavoidable in political theory. A theory about which social arrangements are best for human beings must make some claims about the nature of the human beings - how they behave, what they desire, etc. These anthropological ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2020-03)Every person’s life can be approached from various angles. Biographies are thus never complete narratives that tell entirely of a person’s life—all the events occurred, all the relations entered, all the emotions sensed, or all the opinions uttered—but ...
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(Háskóli Íslands, Hugvísindasvið, Sagnfræði- og heimspekideild, 2021)Á árunum 1874–1915 tók íslenskt samfélag margháttuðum breytingum sem birtust m.a. í efnahags- og félagslegum umskiptum sem tengdust þéttbýlismyndun og lýðræðisþróun. Íslenska sveita-samfélagið átti undir högg að sækja eftir að hafa verið allsráðandi ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2022)This compilation thesis is situated at the intersection of the scholarly fields of medieval masculinities and the bioarchaeology of identities. The aim is to explore bodily aspects of medieval masculinities through the analysis of human skeletal ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2014)Osteoarthritis has been intensively studied within the field of palaeopathology. For decades there was assumed to be a direct link between activity and the development of osteoarthritis, and this was reflected in the work which was carried out, with ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2023)Unlike most other academic disciplines in Iceland, there has been little or no research in art history using feminist methodology and theories in which the concept of gender occurs. A critical review of the methodology applied in analysing the discourse ...
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