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Research paper thumbnail of Hus och hushåll i den tidigmoderna staden: Ett metodpaket.

Byggelsehistorisk tidskrift Nr 85/2023. , 2023

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Research paper thumbnail of Qviström, Linda et al. 2023. "Bara spik": potentialen hos arkeologiska fynd av byggnadsjärn.

Meta H. 2023, p.101-109. , 2023

“Just nails”. The potential of archaeological finds of building iron. Although finds of nails and... more “Just nails”. The potential of archaeological finds of building iron. Although finds of nails
and fittings are common from urban, early modern archaeological sites, they are rarely
used in the interpretations of the excavated buildings. These finds are often poorly documented
and they seldom get preserved once the excavation report is completed. This
means that the finds in many cases cannot be used in future research projects.
In this article, we discuss the potential of these types of artefacts in research on early
modern buildings and house construction. We furthermore discuss what would be required
in the handling of the material in order for it to be used as a general resource.

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Research paper thumbnail of Birgittastiftelsen och Vadstena kloster – hundra år av tvåsamhet.

Birgittastiftelsens hundraårsjubileum, 2022

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Research paper thumbnail of Lindström, Dag & Tagesson, Göran. Spaces for comfort, seclusion and privacy in a Swedish 18th century town.

Nauman, Sari & Vogt, Helle. 2022. Sari Nauman & Helle Vogt (red.) (2022). Private/Public in 18th-Century Scandinavia. Bloomsbury Academic. , 2022

Combining archaeological, architectural and historical sources, Dag Lindström and Göran Tagesson ... more Combining archaeological, architectural
and historical sources, Dag Lindström and Göran Tagesson uncover profound
modifications to the town houses of Linköping in Sweden during the eighteenth century.
While population density and the number of tenants and lodgers increased, the average
number of people living in a household declined. New building elements were introduced,
which enhanced indoor comfort and promoted possible seclusion. A new house type thus
developed among the merchants, separating a potentially semi-public indoor space from
more private indoor spaces.

Many of the changes discussed here are more manifest and easily observable in the residential houses of the urban elite, but it is important to notice that these tendencies also appear in more modest houses. Our focus has been on distinct effects of specific modifications of the built material structures: increased spatial separation and enhanced potentialities for seclusion. It is, however, clear that certain conceptualisations of private and public spaces were present in Linköping around 1800, and that at least some individuals took action in order to affect the urban spatial organization according to such perceptions.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2021. The brilliant idea of the bookkeeper Johan Peter Frisk – a micro-historical study.

in Alida Clemente, Dag Lindström and Jon Stobart (eds.) Micro-Geographies of the Western City, c.1750-1900., 2021

During the last decades of the eighteenth century, the local book-keeper Johan Peter Frisk seems ... more During the last decades of the eighteenth century, the local book-keeper Johan Peter Frisk seems to have had a brilliant idea. He started to buy up plots and rebuild his childhood home in the small Swedish town of Linköping. The former plot had been split up into different smaller parts, and these were housing a multitude of people, households and families, tenants and lodgers, even poor dependent-free lodgers, all of whom were living on the overcrowded plot in old houses many in a state of disrepair. However, he seems to have been a coming man, and in some way obtained the financial means to successively buy the various parts and restore the former plot in order to have a new house built along the street. The resulting building, in two floors and comprising one apartment on each floor, still survives and has recently been dated to the year 1795. A couple of years after this date, the tenants in the new building appear to have been somewhat better-off, consisting of family households with some servants and engaged in middle-class occupations. The apartments, comprising a dining-room, bedroom, drawing-room and kitchen represent a new, middle-class housing standard.
Is this story of local gentrification just a single event in the town or was it part of a general change in building traditions? What does the story of this new building tell us about standards of habitation, and the social background and household structure in a small Swedish town like this? And can this kind of case-study, including a combination of archaeological and historical sources, be a part of a stronger emphasis of micro-geographical research in the period? In addressing these questions, this chapter demonstrates the dynamic interaction between individual agency and systematic changes in the built urban environment. The late eighteenth-century life story of a single individual, Johan Peter Frisk, is connected to the story of a specific house. An integrated combination of written sources, buildings archaeology applied to standing structures, and archaeology below the ground provide the necessary base for this micro-geographical analysis. The close analyses of single individuals and houses are combined with the general lay-out of this small Swedish town in the long eighteenth century.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2020. Poor Widow Catharina Bergstedt, What Now? On Houses, Gender and Agency in Early Modern Swedish Towns.

Tagesson et al. (eds.)“For My Descendants and Myself, a Nice and Pleasant Abode” – Agency, Micro-history and Built Environment. Buildings in Society International BISI III, Stockholm 2017. , 2020

The history of Catharina Bergstedt, widow and competent historical agent the town of Linköping in... more The history of Catharina Bergstedt, widow and competent historical agent the town of Linköping in the Early modern period, challenges our methods and theories. An integrated analysis of archaeological and historical sources and methods shows a more complex situation than hitherto believed in interpretations of historical archaeology, in which the contemporary gender system has proved to consist of both possibilities and restrictions for both sexes. With the household as the fundamental societal concept and studies on a micro-scale, a better understanding of the life courses of individuals is at hand. Furthermore, a more nuanced consideration of gender relations within traditional historical archaeology seems a suitable way to reach an understanding of the actual doings of both men and women in the household.
The present study, comprising case-studies on gender relations in some Swedish towns during the Early modern period including aspects of overseeing households as well as building projects from a gender perspective, identifies different aspects of agencies for both men and women in the household. It does not seem to have been unusual for a woman to oversee the household, and it was also normal for a widow to own the plot and continue the business of her late husband. Another important role was to enable the functions of the plot to continue over generations, keeping the workshop in the family. On the other hand, female building projects seem to have been rather unusual.
The contextual method, important when analysing the archaeological record, seems to overestimate constructional phases, thus overestimating male agency. The phases of maintenance and use, and the periods in between the constructional contexts, are harder to explore and document, thus underestimating female agency in the stratigraphy.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2019. Hur ska det gå för Catharina Bergstedt? Om hus, hem och genus under tidigmodern tid

Tidens landskap. En vänbok till Andres Andrén. Red. Ljung et al., 2019

År 1724 fick Maria Engel, kallad Maricken, änka efter skeppsredaren Peter Regardt, möjlighet att ... more År 1724 fick Maria Engel, kallad Maricken, änka efter skeppsredaren Peter Regardt, möjlighet att köpa en gård vid Fiskaregatan i Kalmar. När hennes hus undersöktes 2012 hittades ett mynt från 1724 i grovkökets spis, som visar att hon låtit reparera huset när hon tillträdde köpet. Maria kom sedan att bo kvar i trettio år, av tillnamnet Maricken framgår det att hon var en välkänd profil i kvarteret. Inte långt därifrån i samma kvarter såg sig samtidigt änkan Maria Loberg tvingad att stycka av sin lilla tomt och sälja den norra delen till handelsmannen Peter Moberger, kanske var det hennes sätt att klara livhanken som nybliven änka. Ingierd Frimolin, änka efter hästkrögaren Roting vid Smedjegatan i Jönköping, fortsatte däremot att driva gården vidare efter makens död, samtidigt som undersökningen 2008 tyder på att verksamheten på gården ändrat inriktning.
Genom att kombinera arkeologiska lämningar, bevarade byggnader, skrift och materiella lämningar har historisk arkeologi en unik möjlighet att påvisa nya och oväntade historiska kontexter och därmed väsentligen problematisera bilden av sociala förhållanden i det nära förgångna. Med hjälp av de senaste årens storskaliga arkeologiska undersökningar i städer som Kalmar, Jönköping, Linköping och Norrköping har vi fått nya möjligheter genom stora källmaterial att närstudera den byggda miljön i relation till ägare, boende och sociala relationer.
Bland olika möjliga perspektiv ställer det nya frågor kring genusrelationer i de tidigmoderna städerna. Hushållens sammansättning i en urban, tidigmodern kontext har hittills främst diskuterats av historiker. Genom att analysera byggnader i ett hushållsperspektiv, med fysiska hus i kombination med ägare och boende som livsbiografier, finns möjligheten att studera genusrelationer och kvinnors handlingsutrymme i en tidigmodern hushållskontext mer specifikt.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2019. Stolt men inte nöjd – historisk arkeologi mellan generalister, specialister och soloartister.

META. Historisk-arkeologisk tidskrift 2019, 2019

Proud but not contended – historic archaeology between generalists, specialists and soloists. Ar... more Proud but not contended – historic archaeology between generalists, specialists and soloists.
Archaeological excavations from the Early Modern Period have increased in number and extension during the past decades in Sweden. The time period challenges historical archaeology and calls for closer scientific co-operation between archaeologists and historians. The article starts from a certain project, House and household in Early modern Swedish towns 1600-1850, and discusses archaeological and historical from a contextual perspective. Certain features and themes seem to be important; a reciprocal interest in the aims of the project is of course a prerequisite, the different scientific agendas of history and archaeology has been one of many obstacles. Due to the last years mutual interest in spatial perspectives, as well as “the material turn”, a new foundation for closer relationship have been laid. New possibilities for dating and contextual analysis in archaeology also seem to open for placing written, material and spatial perspectives in close connection. The article strongly advocates archaeologists to be even more specialised in the archaeological analysis, but at the same time work side by side with professional historians in close interdisciplinarity.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2018. ”Would be better if all the houses looked all the same…” The Early modern town as power, ideology and modernity.

In: Cornell, Per et al. "Urban Variaition. Utopia, Planning and Practice". , 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Nilsen, Andrine & Tagesson, Göran. 2018. Houses and buildings – on physical and social space in Early Modern Swedish towns.

In: Liz Thomas & Jill Campbell. Buildings in Society. International Studies in the Historic Era. Archaeopress Arhcaeology. , 2018

In the last decades there have been a serveral large scale urban excavations in Sweden and Norway... more In the last decades there have been a serveral large scale urban excavations in Sweden and Norway and new ways of interpreting and understanding the early modern building flora is now possible. This is a study of constructions, layouts and the internal structure of the houses of some of those towns. Some elements had a traditional character and some elements were new, we aim to identify the iterated and the modern ideas in the built environment.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2018. Houses of Wood, Houses of Stone: On Constructing a Modern Town in Early Modern Kalmar

In: Naum, M. & Ekengren, F. ed. Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden. Travel, Migration and Material Transformations 1500-1800. The Boydell Press., 2018

The town of Kalmar was moved in the mid-17th century and rebuilt according to contemporary ideals... more The town of Kalmar was moved in the mid-17th century and rebuilt according to contemporary ideals using a modern regulated town plan. Recent archaeological excavations confirm previous hypotheses of a socially divided and hierarchically constructed town with two different housing cultures. Their existence is discussed as a part of a general effort of making a structured and hierarchical society. The different and contradictory currents underlying the processes in 17th-century Swedish society, the openness to new global impulses, and at the same time obsession with structuring people and space are inherent in the case of constructing the new town of Kalmar.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran &. Lindström, Dag. 2016. Onkel Adamsgården - Hus och miljö i förändring

In: Mörkfors & Löfgren Ek (red.). Onkel Adam. Författaren och gården. Meddelanden från Östergötlands museum 2015-2016. , 2016

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2015. The Human Body as Material Culture ‒ Linköping Cathedral Churchyard in the Early Modern Period

In: Tarlow, Sarah ed. The Archaeology of Death in Post-medieval Europe, 2015

This article discusses the human body as a kind of material culture, an active medium for express... more This article discusses the human body as a kind of material culture, an active medium for expressing values and beliefs, as well as hopes for the life after this. The excavation of the cemetery at Linköping Cathedral in 2002–2003 comprised 570 individuals from the period 1100–1810. Here we have a unique opportunity to study living conditions and changes in mortuary practice over a long period
The material has been stratigraphically divided into three medieval phases (1–3) and three post-medieval phases (4–6). The period from circa 1500 until the end of the 17th century (phase 4) saw a distinct continuity in burial traditions from the Late Middle Ages. The great change actually came in the 1680s, when burial customs became much more heterogeneous. Arm positions were allowed to vary, the deceased was buried in normal clothes and it became much more common to put personal belongings in the graves. Phase 6 comprises the period 1780–1810, which is characterized by the introduction of a linear system, with burials taking place as deaths occurred, with no consideration for family, gender, social status etc.
Finally, the material is discussed in terms of specific themes: cemetery users, the cemetery as a social arena, and changes in mortuary practice. The change in grave ritual at the end of the seventeenth century can be interpreted as an expression of a more individual attitude to the human body and the grave as a social medium. The time around 1700 was a watershed between the united church of Sweden’s Age of Greatness, perceived as the obedient instrument of the absolute monarch, and the more open attitude of the Age of Liberty, when new revival movements such as pietism began to gain influence, with their more personal and individually coloured faith. Recent studies in contemporary micro-rituals concerning changing modern grave rituals, indicates that the material culture as well spatial arrangements involved are very important for the new habits. It is possible to interpret these detectable changes in the material culture as an example of the concept of modernity and a desire of expressing new attitudes of individuality towards the deceased.
Material culture has for a long time been an important subject for cultural historians and not least archaeologists. When archaeologists and cultural historians discuss material culture it is frequently a matter of clear and manifest remains. But even the human body can be seen in the same way – as a social project, the most intimate and personal such venture. Through the body we communicate our identity © 2015 Göran Tagesson
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and how we want our environment to apprehend us. We hide and we assert ourselves precisely with the body as the means, in life as in death. At the same time, the body is a meeting-place for all kinds of contradictory messages. We shape – or forbear to shape – our bodies according to ideals we may not always sympathise with (Hamilakis et al., 2002; Tarlow, 1999a, 2002b).
Latter-day research has emphasised the human’s range of choices and capacity for expression. The history of the body is in many cases the history of the individual’s relationship with the world around, for good and ill. We can see the body as an arena for differing interests, sometimes in the form of economic and social pressures, political power or the desire of commercial forces demanding that we appear in a particular way. In this way the body becomes a discursive field where different volitions meet and are reshaped (Foucault, 1998). At the same time the individual body carries the memory of our biological life and social history. The human body can be compared to an osteological database, with clear traces of the individual’s conditions of life, health and illnesses, which in their turn reflect social distinctions and changes over time. The question is how factors such as life-span, child mortality and maladies in general have changed over time and how these factors can be interpreted as differences in human living conditions (Arcini, 1999; Arcini et al., 2012).
The dead body is a particular field for transformation. Through the treatment of the body after death and in the grave, a remodelling and communication occurs with the surrounding world which is not always in agreement with the deceased’s own identity and volition. Here a transformation takes place which is frequently dependent on the wishes of the collective, the authorities or by convention. The grave can reflect the identity and social position of the deceased, but often it is even more an expression of the wishes and intentions of the surviving relatives (Tarlow, 2002a).
The following article deals with the view of the human body and Christian burial customs during a period of radical change: the Reformation and the break-through of modernity. The starting point is taken from an archaeological investigation in the cemetery of Linköping Cathedral in southern Sweden (Fig. 2.1). The cemetery functioned continuously circa 1100–1810 and the investigation in 2002–2003 comprised burials from the whole period. For Swedish circumstances, and even internationally, this investigation seems almost unique in capturing the whole sequence of burials over a 700-year period. The material is of special significance in that burial customs and osteological information can be analysed in an unbroken sequence for both the Medieval and the Early Modern periods.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran & Jeppsson, Annika. 2015. Varmt och skönt – och iögonfallande modernt. Kakelugnar som social konsumtion i det tidigmoderna Sverige.

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The article presents a research project on stove tiles and tile stoves as archaeological object ... more The article presents a research project on stove tiles and tile stoves as archaeological
object fromthe so called baroque period, fromthe end of 16th to the beginning
of the 18th century. Tiles from available archaeological excavations in the four
towns of Kalmar, Linköping, Jönköping and Norrköping have been analysed
according to identified unique motive-types and their distribution in time and
space. A rather unique assemblage of tiles from a complete tile stove in Kalmar is
presented and discussed in accordance to the general problems of redepositional
processes ofmaterial culture in the archaeological stratigraphy.The results indicate
that the introduction of the newtechnology and/or fashion of tile stoveswere highly
dependent on an innovation centre,mostly a prominent residence, in the towns.The
rather uneven distribution between, as well as in, the towns is discussed. The conclusion
is that in the study of the profound changes in building and domestic culture
during the period, more attention has to be paid to the changes on the single
plots and in the single households.

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Research paper thumbnail of Lindström, Dag & Tagesson, Göran 2015. On spatializing history – the household as spatial unit in Early Modern Swedish towns

In: META Historisk-arkeologisk tidskrift , 2015

The article discusses the differences between history and archaeology and especially differences ... more The article discusses the differences between history and archaeology and especially differences in approaching space as a category of analysis. The authors are advocating better mutual understandings from both disciplines and refer to an ongoing project on artisan households and workshops and the relationship between physical space and household as well the connection between residence and workshop. The case-studies comes from Early modern Kalmar and Jönköping, where large scale archaeological excavations recently have taken place, and where historical records about the inhabitants and the plot owners have been scrutinized.
When historical and archaeological observations are combined, household, residence, and work appear as a much more complicated and diverse matter than often assumed. It also stands clear that materiality and space are necessary dimensions of household and work analyses. The combination of historical and archaeological evidence also provokes new questions and promotes new types of conclusions.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2014. Tidigmoderna rum - hus, gård och rum i 1600- och 1700-talets Jönköping.

In: Stibéus, M. 2014. Slaktarens kaj, apotekarens trädgård och fällberedarens gård. Arkeologi på tre gårdar i 1600- och 1700-talens Jönköping. , 2014

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2013. Stadslandskapet - förutsättningar, förändringar och variationer – en sammanfattande diskussion.

In: Hedvall, Rikard, Lindeblad, Karin & Menander, Hanna. Borgare, bröder och bönder - arkeologiska perspektiv på Skänninges äldre historia. Riksantikvarieämbetet., 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2013. Vore bäst alle huus vore lijka - makt, ideologi och modernitet i den tidigmoderna staden.

In: Ersgård 2013. (red.) Visioner och verklighet. Arkeologiska texter om den tidigmoderna staden. Gotarc Series C. Arkeologiska skrifter no. 76. , 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Arcini, Caroline; Ahlström, Torbjörn & Tagesson, Göran. 2012. Variations in Diet and Stature: Are They Linked? Bioarchaeology and Paleodietary Bayesian Mixing Models from Linköping, Sweden.

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 2012. , 2012

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2012. Vreta Kloster – manor, convent and an (im)possible baptistery. A contribution to the history of Christianization and the making of a Christian kingdom in Sweden.

In: Orsolya, Krohn & Ristow (Hrsg.) Christianisierung Europas: Entstehung, Entwicklung und Konsolidierung im archäologischen Befund. , 2012

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Research paper thumbnail of Hus och hushåll i den tidigmoderna staden: Ett metodpaket.

Byggelsehistorisk tidskrift Nr 85/2023. , 2023

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Research paper thumbnail of Qviström, Linda et al. 2023. "Bara spik": potentialen hos arkeologiska fynd av byggnadsjärn.

Meta H. 2023, p.101-109. , 2023

“Just nails”. The potential of archaeological finds of building iron. Although finds of nails and... more “Just nails”. The potential of archaeological finds of building iron. Although finds of nails
and fittings are common from urban, early modern archaeological sites, they are rarely
used in the interpretations of the excavated buildings. These finds are often poorly documented
and they seldom get preserved once the excavation report is completed. This
means that the finds in many cases cannot be used in future research projects.
In this article, we discuss the potential of these types of artefacts in research on early
modern buildings and house construction. We furthermore discuss what would be required
in the handling of the material in order for it to be used as a general resource.

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Research paper thumbnail of Birgittastiftelsen och Vadstena kloster – hundra år av tvåsamhet.

Birgittastiftelsens hundraårsjubileum, 2022

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Research paper thumbnail of Lindström, Dag & Tagesson, Göran. Spaces for comfort, seclusion and privacy in a Swedish 18th century town.

Nauman, Sari & Vogt, Helle. 2022. Sari Nauman & Helle Vogt (red.) (2022). Private/Public in 18th-Century Scandinavia. Bloomsbury Academic. , 2022

Combining archaeological, architectural and historical sources, Dag Lindström and Göran Tagesson ... more Combining archaeological, architectural
and historical sources, Dag Lindström and Göran Tagesson uncover profound
modifications to the town houses of Linköping in Sweden during the eighteenth century.
While population density and the number of tenants and lodgers increased, the average
number of people living in a household declined. New building elements were introduced,
which enhanced indoor comfort and promoted possible seclusion. A new house type thus
developed among the merchants, separating a potentially semi-public indoor space from
more private indoor spaces.

Many of the changes discussed here are more manifest and easily observable in the residential houses of the urban elite, but it is important to notice that these tendencies also appear in more modest houses. Our focus has been on distinct effects of specific modifications of the built material structures: increased spatial separation and enhanced potentialities for seclusion. It is, however, clear that certain conceptualisations of private and public spaces were present in Linköping around 1800, and that at least some individuals took action in order to affect the urban spatial organization according to such perceptions.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2021. The brilliant idea of the bookkeeper Johan Peter Frisk – a micro-historical study.

in Alida Clemente, Dag Lindström and Jon Stobart (eds.) Micro-Geographies of the Western City, c.1750-1900., 2021

During the last decades of the eighteenth century, the local book-keeper Johan Peter Frisk seems ... more During the last decades of the eighteenth century, the local book-keeper Johan Peter Frisk seems to have had a brilliant idea. He started to buy up plots and rebuild his childhood home in the small Swedish town of Linköping. The former plot had been split up into different smaller parts, and these were housing a multitude of people, households and families, tenants and lodgers, even poor dependent-free lodgers, all of whom were living on the overcrowded plot in old houses many in a state of disrepair. However, he seems to have been a coming man, and in some way obtained the financial means to successively buy the various parts and restore the former plot in order to have a new house built along the street. The resulting building, in two floors and comprising one apartment on each floor, still survives and has recently been dated to the year 1795. A couple of years after this date, the tenants in the new building appear to have been somewhat better-off, consisting of family households with some servants and engaged in middle-class occupations. The apartments, comprising a dining-room, bedroom, drawing-room and kitchen represent a new, middle-class housing standard.
Is this story of local gentrification just a single event in the town or was it part of a general change in building traditions? What does the story of this new building tell us about standards of habitation, and the social background and household structure in a small Swedish town like this? And can this kind of case-study, including a combination of archaeological and historical sources, be a part of a stronger emphasis of micro-geographical research in the period? In addressing these questions, this chapter demonstrates the dynamic interaction between individual agency and systematic changes in the built urban environment. The late eighteenth-century life story of a single individual, Johan Peter Frisk, is connected to the story of a specific house. An integrated combination of written sources, buildings archaeology applied to standing structures, and archaeology below the ground provide the necessary base for this micro-geographical analysis. The close analyses of single individuals and houses are combined with the general lay-out of this small Swedish town in the long eighteenth century.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2020. Poor Widow Catharina Bergstedt, What Now? On Houses, Gender and Agency in Early Modern Swedish Towns.

Tagesson et al. (eds.)“For My Descendants and Myself, a Nice and Pleasant Abode” – Agency, Micro-history and Built Environment. Buildings in Society International BISI III, Stockholm 2017. , 2020

The history of Catharina Bergstedt, widow and competent historical agent the town of Linköping in... more The history of Catharina Bergstedt, widow and competent historical agent the town of Linköping in the Early modern period, challenges our methods and theories. An integrated analysis of archaeological and historical sources and methods shows a more complex situation than hitherto believed in interpretations of historical archaeology, in which the contemporary gender system has proved to consist of both possibilities and restrictions for both sexes. With the household as the fundamental societal concept and studies on a micro-scale, a better understanding of the life courses of individuals is at hand. Furthermore, a more nuanced consideration of gender relations within traditional historical archaeology seems a suitable way to reach an understanding of the actual doings of both men and women in the household.
The present study, comprising case-studies on gender relations in some Swedish towns during the Early modern period including aspects of overseeing households as well as building projects from a gender perspective, identifies different aspects of agencies for both men and women in the household. It does not seem to have been unusual for a woman to oversee the household, and it was also normal for a widow to own the plot and continue the business of her late husband. Another important role was to enable the functions of the plot to continue over generations, keeping the workshop in the family. On the other hand, female building projects seem to have been rather unusual.
The contextual method, important when analysing the archaeological record, seems to overestimate constructional phases, thus overestimating male agency. The phases of maintenance and use, and the periods in between the constructional contexts, are harder to explore and document, thus underestimating female agency in the stratigraphy.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2019. Hur ska det gå för Catharina Bergstedt? Om hus, hem och genus under tidigmodern tid

Tidens landskap. En vänbok till Andres Andrén. Red. Ljung et al., 2019

År 1724 fick Maria Engel, kallad Maricken, änka efter skeppsredaren Peter Regardt, möjlighet att ... more År 1724 fick Maria Engel, kallad Maricken, änka efter skeppsredaren Peter Regardt, möjlighet att köpa en gård vid Fiskaregatan i Kalmar. När hennes hus undersöktes 2012 hittades ett mynt från 1724 i grovkökets spis, som visar att hon låtit reparera huset när hon tillträdde köpet. Maria kom sedan att bo kvar i trettio år, av tillnamnet Maricken framgår det att hon var en välkänd profil i kvarteret. Inte långt därifrån i samma kvarter såg sig samtidigt änkan Maria Loberg tvingad att stycka av sin lilla tomt och sälja den norra delen till handelsmannen Peter Moberger, kanske var det hennes sätt att klara livhanken som nybliven änka. Ingierd Frimolin, änka efter hästkrögaren Roting vid Smedjegatan i Jönköping, fortsatte däremot att driva gården vidare efter makens död, samtidigt som undersökningen 2008 tyder på att verksamheten på gården ändrat inriktning.
Genom att kombinera arkeologiska lämningar, bevarade byggnader, skrift och materiella lämningar har historisk arkeologi en unik möjlighet att påvisa nya och oväntade historiska kontexter och därmed väsentligen problematisera bilden av sociala förhållanden i det nära förgångna. Med hjälp av de senaste årens storskaliga arkeologiska undersökningar i städer som Kalmar, Jönköping, Linköping och Norrköping har vi fått nya möjligheter genom stora källmaterial att närstudera den byggda miljön i relation till ägare, boende och sociala relationer.
Bland olika möjliga perspektiv ställer det nya frågor kring genusrelationer i de tidigmoderna städerna. Hushållens sammansättning i en urban, tidigmodern kontext har hittills främst diskuterats av historiker. Genom att analysera byggnader i ett hushållsperspektiv, med fysiska hus i kombination med ägare och boende som livsbiografier, finns möjligheten att studera genusrelationer och kvinnors handlingsutrymme i en tidigmodern hushållskontext mer specifikt.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2019. Stolt men inte nöjd – historisk arkeologi mellan generalister, specialister och soloartister.

META. Historisk-arkeologisk tidskrift 2019, 2019

Proud but not contended – historic archaeology between generalists, specialists and soloists. Ar... more Proud but not contended – historic archaeology between generalists, specialists and soloists.
Archaeological excavations from the Early Modern Period have increased in number and extension during the past decades in Sweden. The time period challenges historical archaeology and calls for closer scientific co-operation between archaeologists and historians. The article starts from a certain project, House and household in Early modern Swedish towns 1600-1850, and discusses archaeological and historical from a contextual perspective. Certain features and themes seem to be important; a reciprocal interest in the aims of the project is of course a prerequisite, the different scientific agendas of history and archaeology has been one of many obstacles. Due to the last years mutual interest in spatial perspectives, as well as “the material turn”, a new foundation for closer relationship have been laid. New possibilities for dating and contextual analysis in archaeology also seem to open for placing written, material and spatial perspectives in close connection. The article strongly advocates archaeologists to be even more specialised in the archaeological analysis, but at the same time work side by side with professional historians in close interdisciplinarity.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2018. ”Would be better if all the houses looked all the same…” The Early modern town as power, ideology and modernity.

In: Cornell, Per et al. "Urban Variaition. Utopia, Planning and Practice". , 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Nilsen, Andrine & Tagesson, Göran. 2018. Houses and buildings – on physical and social space in Early Modern Swedish towns.

In: Liz Thomas & Jill Campbell. Buildings in Society. International Studies in the Historic Era. Archaeopress Arhcaeology. , 2018

In the last decades there have been a serveral large scale urban excavations in Sweden and Norway... more In the last decades there have been a serveral large scale urban excavations in Sweden and Norway and new ways of interpreting and understanding the early modern building flora is now possible. This is a study of constructions, layouts and the internal structure of the houses of some of those towns. Some elements had a traditional character and some elements were new, we aim to identify the iterated and the modern ideas in the built environment.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2018. Houses of Wood, Houses of Stone: On Constructing a Modern Town in Early Modern Kalmar

In: Naum, M. & Ekengren, F. ed. Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden. Travel, Migration and Material Transformations 1500-1800. The Boydell Press., 2018

The town of Kalmar was moved in the mid-17th century and rebuilt according to contemporary ideals... more The town of Kalmar was moved in the mid-17th century and rebuilt according to contemporary ideals using a modern regulated town plan. Recent archaeological excavations confirm previous hypotheses of a socially divided and hierarchically constructed town with two different housing cultures. Their existence is discussed as a part of a general effort of making a structured and hierarchical society. The different and contradictory currents underlying the processes in 17th-century Swedish society, the openness to new global impulses, and at the same time obsession with structuring people and space are inherent in the case of constructing the new town of Kalmar.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran &. Lindström, Dag. 2016. Onkel Adamsgården - Hus och miljö i förändring

In: Mörkfors & Löfgren Ek (red.). Onkel Adam. Författaren och gården. Meddelanden från Östergötlands museum 2015-2016. , 2016

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2015. The Human Body as Material Culture ‒ Linköping Cathedral Churchyard in the Early Modern Period

In: Tarlow, Sarah ed. The Archaeology of Death in Post-medieval Europe, 2015

This article discusses the human body as a kind of material culture, an active medium for express... more This article discusses the human body as a kind of material culture, an active medium for expressing values and beliefs, as well as hopes for the life after this. The excavation of the cemetery at Linköping Cathedral in 2002–2003 comprised 570 individuals from the period 1100–1810. Here we have a unique opportunity to study living conditions and changes in mortuary practice over a long period
The material has been stratigraphically divided into three medieval phases (1–3) and three post-medieval phases (4–6). The period from circa 1500 until the end of the 17th century (phase 4) saw a distinct continuity in burial traditions from the Late Middle Ages. The great change actually came in the 1680s, when burial customs became much more heterogeneous. Arm positions were allowed to vary, the deceased was buried in normal clothes and it became much more common to put personal belongings in the graves. Phase 6 comprises the period 1780–1810, which is characterized by the introduction of a linear system, with burials taking place as deaths occurred, with no consideration for family, gender, social status etc.
Finally, the material is discussed in terms of specific themes: cemetery users, the cemetery as a social arena, and changes in mortuary practice. The change in grave ritual at the end of the seventeenth century can be interpreted as an expression of a more individual attitude to the human body and the grave as a social medium. The time around 1700 was a watershed between the united church of Sweden’s Age of Greatness, perceived as the obedient instrument of the absolute monarch, and the more open attitude of the Age of Liberty, when new revival movements such as pietism began to gain influence, with their more personal and individually coloured faith. Recent studies in contemporary micro-rituals concerning changing modern grave rituals, indicates that the material culture as well spatial arrangements involved are very important for the new habits. It is possible to interpret these detectable changes in the material culture as an example of the concept of modernity and a desire of expressing new attitudes of individuality towards the deceased.
Material culture has for a long time been an important subject for cultural historians and not least archaeologists. When archaeologists and cultural historians discuss material culture it is frequently a matter of clear and manifest remains. But even the human body can be seen in the same way – as a social project, the most intimate and personal such venture. Through the body we communicate our identity © 2015 Göran Tagesson
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and how we want our environment to apprehend us. We hide and we assert ourselves precisely with the body as the means, in life as in death. At the same time, the body is a meeting-place for all kinds of contradictory messages. We shape – or forbear to shape – our bodies according to ideals we may not always sympathise with (Hamilakis et al., 2002; Tarlow, 1999a, 2002b).
Latter-day research has emphasised the human’s range of choices and capacity for expression. The history of the body is in many cases the history of the individual’s relationship with the world around, for good and ill. We can see the body as an arena for differing interests, sometimes in the form of economic and social pressures, political power or the desire of commercial forces demanding that we appear in a particular way. In this way the body becomes a discursive field where different volitions meet and are reshaped (Foucault, 1998). At the same time the individual body carries the memory of our biological life and social history. The human body can be compared to an osteological database, with clear traces of the individual’s conditions of life, health and illnesses, which in their turn reflect social distinctions and changes over time. The question is how factors such as life-span, child mortality and maladies in general have changed over time and how these factors can be interpreted as differences in human living conditions (Arcini, 1999; Arcini et al., 2012).
The dead body is a particular field for transformation. Through the treatment of the body after death and in the grave, a remodelling and communication occurs with the surrounding world which is not always in agreement with the deceased’s own identity and volition. Here a transformation takes place which is frequently dependent on the wishes of the collective, the authorities or by convention. The grave can reflect the identity and social position of the deceased, but often it is even more an expression of the wishes and intentions of the surviving relatives (Tarlow, 2002a).
The following article deals with the view of the human body and Christian burial customs during a period of radical change: the Reformation and the break-through of modernity. The starting point is taken from an archaeological investigation in the cemetery of Linköping Cathedral in southern Sweden (Fig. 2.1). The cemetery functioned continuously circa 1100–1810 and the investigation in 2002–2003 comprised burials from the whole period. For Swedish circumstances, and even internationally, this investigation seems almost unique in capturing the whole sequence of burials over a 700-year period. The material is of special significance in that burial customs and osteological information can be analysed in an unbroken sequence for both the Medieval and the Early Modern periods.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran & Jeppsson, Annika. 2015. Varmt och skönt – och iögonfallande modernt. Kakelugnar som social konsumtion i det tidigmoderna Sverige.

Fornvännen 2015:2

The article presents a research project on stove tiles and tile stoves as archaeological object ... more The article presents a research project on stove tiles and tile stoves as archaeological
object fromthe so called baroque period, fromthe end of 16th to the beginning
of the 18th century. Tiles from available archaeological excavations in the four
towns of Kalmar, Linköping, Jönköping and Norrköping have been analysed
according to identified unique motive-types and their distribution in time and
space. A rather unique assemblage of tiles from a complete tile stove in Kalmar is
presented and discussed in accordance to the general problems of redepositional
processes ofmaterial culture in the archaeological stratigraphy.The results indicate
that the introduction of the newtechnology and/or fashion of tile stoveswere highly
dependent on an innovation centre,mostly a prominent residence, in the towns.The
rather uneven distribution between, as well as in, the towns is discussed. The conclusion
is that in the study of the profound changes in building and domestic culture
during the period, more attention has to be paid to the changes on the single
plots and in the single households.

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Research paper thumbnail of Lindström, Dag & Tagesson, Göran 2015. On spatializing history – the household as spatial unit in Early Modern Swedish towns

In: META Historisk-arkeologisk tidskrift , 2015

The article discusses the differences between history and archaeology and especially differences ... more The article discusses the differences between history and archaeology and especially differences in approaching space as a category of analysis. The authors are advocating better mutual understandings from both disciplines and refer to an ongoing project on artisan households and workshops and the relationship between physical space and household as well the connection between residence and workshop. The case-studies comes from Early modern Kalmar and Jönköping, where large scale archaeological excavations recently have taken place, and where historical records about the inhabitants and the plot owners have been scrutinized.
When historical and archaeological observations are combined, household, residence, and work appear as a much more complicated and diverse matter than often assumed. It also stands clear that materiality and space are necessary dimensions of household and work analyses. The combination of historical and archaeological evidence also provokes new questions and promotes new types of conclusions.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2014. Tidigmoderna rum - hus, gård och rum i 1600- och 1700-talets Jönköping.

In: Stibéus, M. 2014. Slaktarens kaj, apotekarens trädgård och fällberedarens gård. Arkeologi på tre gårdar i 1600- och 1700-talens Jönköping. , 2014

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2013. Stadslandskapet - förutsättningar, förändringar och variationer – en sammanfattande diskussion.

In: Hedvall, Rikard, Lindeblad, Karin & Menander, Hanna. Borgare, bröder och bönder - arkeologiska perspektiv på Skänninges äldre historia. Riksantikvarieämbetet., 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2013. Vore bäst alle huus vore lijka - makt, ideologi och modernitet i den tidigmoderna staden.

In: Ersgård 2013. (red.) Visioner och verklighet. Arkeologiska texter om den tidigmoderna staden. Gotarc Series C. Arkeologiska skrifter no. 76. , 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Arcini, Caroline; Ahlström, Torbjörn & Tagesson, Göran. 2012. Variations in Diet and Stature: Are They Linked? Bioarchaeology and Paleodietary Bayesian Mixing Models from Linköping, Sweden.

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 2012. , 2012

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2012. Vreta Kloster – manor, convent and an (im)possible baptistery. A contribution to the history of Christianization and the making of a Christian kingdom in Sweden.

In: Orsolya, Krohn & Ristow (Hrsg.) Christianisierung Europas: Entstehung, Entwicklung und Konsolidierung im archäologischen Befund. , 2012

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran, Per Cornell, Mark Gardiner, Liz Tomas & Weikert Katherine. (Eds.) 2020. “For My Descendants and Myself, a Nice and Pleasant Abode” – Agency, Micro-history and Built Environment. Buildings in Society International BISI III, Stockholm 2017. Archaeopress.

Tagesson, Göran, Per Cornell, Mark Gardiner, Liz Tomas & Weikert Katherine. (Eds.) 2020. “For My Descendants and Myself, a Nice and Pleasant Abode” – Agency, Micro-history and Built Environment. Buildings in Society International BISI III, Stockholm 2017. Archaeopress. , 2020

Building studies (ancient and modern) too often fall between the gaps of the disciplines of archi... more Building studies (ancient and modern) too often fall between the gaps of the disciplines of architectural history, archaeology and social anthropology. The multi-disciplinary conferences Buildings in Society International (BISI) are an attempt to bridge these gaps. The first event in the series was organized by the University of Aarhus, Denmark in 2010. Four years later this was followed up by another conference in Queen´s University, Belfast, UK, and in 2017 the third interdisciplinary conference took place in Stockholm, Sweden.

The BISI events have convincingly shown that the study of medieval and early modern buildings benefits from an interdisciplinary approach, and also a broad perspective, in terms of time and space. They have furthermore demonstrated the importance of social, economic, political and cultural contexts when working with built environments.

The articles in this volume examine how people have been making, using and transforming buildings and built environments in general, and how the buildings have been perceived. It also considers a diversity of built constructions – including dwellings and public buildings, sheds and manor houses, secular and sacral structures.
We find the comparison between different regions and parts of the globe important when addressing buildings from a social perspective. This volume presents studies from the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Mexico. And the chronological framework spans from the classical byzantine period, over the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period and ends up in the 20th century Belfast.

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Research paper thumbnail of Kalmar mellan dröm och verklighet. Konstruktionen av den tidigmoderna staden.

År 1640 beslutade riksrådet och den svenska kronan att flytta den viktiga hamn- och befästningsst... more År 1640 beslutade riksrådet och den svenska kronan att flytta den viktiga hamn- och befästningsstaden Kalmar från slottets omedelbara närhet 500 meter nordöst till den närbelägna Kvarnholmen. Stadsplanen från 1651 ritades av generalkvartermästare Johan Wärnschiöldh och godkändes samma år av drottning Kristina. Genom planerna och utbyggnaden av Kvarnholmen får vi en konkret bild av vilka ideal och föreställningar som var på modet. På ritbordet har arkitekten velat skapa en plan för framtidens idealstad som andas regularitet, renhet, ordning – och modernitet. Den unga stormakten var mån om sitt rykte som kulturnation och har med olika medel velat skapa en ny och modern stadskultur i det nya Östersjöväldet.
Historien om Kalmar under 1600- och 1700-talet är väl känd och gör sig påmind i stadsrummet. Men kunskapen om lämningarna under mark, rester efter byggnader, kulturlager och föremål, det underjordiska arkivet, har hittills varit mindre väl känd. Under senare år har en serie arkeologiska undersökningar genomförts i centrala Kalmar på Kvarnholmen, som sammantaget har bidragit till en fördjupad bild av hur den nya staden konstruerats och hur bebyggelsen planerats som en spegel av ett strikt hierarkiskt klassamhälle. Texterna i denna bok har skrivits av arkeologer, historiker och olika naturvetenskapliga specialister, de flesta knutna till Arkeologerna, Statens historiska museer och Kalmar läns museum. Sammantaget presenteras här bilden av den nya stadsetableringen under stormaktstiden och vad som sedan hände.

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Research paper thumbnail of Drömmen om det nya Kalmar. Arkeologi på Kvarnholmen. Kalmar läns museum och Riksantikvarieämbetet 2013.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Regner, Alinder & Ladell (ed.) 2010. Fokus Vreta kloster. 17 nya rön om Sveriges äldsta kloster.

... NO 77 fOKuS VRETA KLOSTER 17 NYA RöN OM SVERIGES äLdSTA KLOSTER REd. GöRAN TAGESSON, ELISAbET... more ... NO 77 fOKuS VRETA KLOSTER 17 NYA RöN OM SVERIGES äLdSTA KLOSTER REd. GöRAN TAGESSON, ELISAbET REGNER, bIRGITTA ALINdER & LARS LAdELL Page 2. 4 fOKuS VRETA KLOSTER Statens historiska ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Kaliff, A. & Tagesson, G. (red.). 2005. Liunga. Kaupinga. Kulturhistoria och arkeologi i Linköpingsbygden. Riksantikvarieämbetet. Arkeologiska undersökningar. Skrifter 60.

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Research paper thumbnail of Karlsson & Tagesson 2003 (ed.) I Tyskebacken: Hus, människor och industri i stormaktstidens Norrköping

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson 2002. Biskop och stad - aspekter av urbanisering och sociala rum i medeltidens Linköping

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Research paper thumbnail of Recension av Christophersen, Axel 2020. Under Trondheim: fortellinger fra bygrunnen. Trondheim: Museumsforlaget.

Fornvännen 2023/4, 2023

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2022. Recension i Fornvännen 2022/3: Nordin, Jonas M. 2020. The Scandinavian Early Modern World. A Global Historical Archaeology. Routledge.

Fornvännen , 2022

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2021. Recension i Kuml: Linaa, Jette (red.) 2020. Urban diaspora: the rise and fall of diaspora communities in early modern Denmark and Sweden : archaeology - history - science. Moesgaard: Jutland Archaeological Society.

Kuml, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2021. Recension av Hansen, Kenth. 2020. Medeltida stadsaristokrati: världsligt frälse i de skånska landskapens städer. Diss. Lund : Lunds universitet. Fornvännen.

Fornvännen , 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Recension av Mette Svart Kristiansen & Kate Giles (eds.), Dwellings, Identities and Homes: European Housing Culture from the Viking Age to the Renaissance. Jutlandic Archaeological Society Publications Vol. 84. Århus 2014. 255 pp. ISBN 9788788415896.

Fornvännen , 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of Recension av Beyond the Walls. New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Historical Households. Red. Kevin. R. Fogle, James. A. Nyman & Mary C. Beaudry. Gainesville 2015. 228 s. ISBN 978-0-8130-6155-9.

Fornvännen , 2017

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Research paper thumbnail of Gaimster, D. & Gilchrist, R. (Eds.) 2003. The Archaeology of Reformation 1480-1580. Papers given at the Archaeology of Reformation Conference, February 2001, hosted jointly by Society for Medieval Archaeology and Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology.

Fornvännen 2010/2.

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Research paper thumbnail of Martin Hansson. 2008. Det medeltida Småland: en arkeologisk guidebok.

Historisk tidskrift 129:3.

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Research paper thumbnail of Schück, H. 2008. Ecclesia Lincopensis. Studier om Linköpingskyrkan under medeltiden och Gustav Vasa. Rättelser och tillägg samt person- och ortsregister.

Fornvännen 2009/2.

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Research paper thumbnail of Seppänen, L. (red.) 2003. Kaupunkia pintaa syvemmältä. Arkeologisia närkökulmia Turun historian. Archaeologia Medii Aevi Finlandiae IX.

Fornvännen 2008/3.

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Research paper thumbnail of Cnattingius, L. & N. 2007. Ruiner. Historia, öden och vård. .

Historisk tidskrift 2008/1

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Research paper thumbnail of Runer, J. 2007. Från hav till land eller Kristus och odalen. En studie av Sverige under äldre medeltid med utgångspunkt från de romanska kyrkorna. Stockholm Studies in Archaeology 38. Stockholm 2006.

Fornvännen 2007/3.

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Research paper thumbnail of Eriksdotter, G. 2005. Bakom fasaderna. Byggnadsarkeologiska sätt att fånga tid, rum och bruk.

Fornvännen 2007/2.

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Research paper thumbnail of Göran Söderström (red.). 2000. 600 år i Vadstena.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran & Konsmar, Annika. 2022. Kring bastionen Carolus Gustavus – arkeologi i Fiskaregatan, Kalmar. Arkeologisk undersökning 2020. Arkeologerna, Statens historiska museer. Rapport 2022:50.

Under våren år 2020 gjordes arkeologiska undersökningar på norra delen av Kvarnholmen, dit Kalmar... more Under våren år 2020 gjordes arkeologiska undersökningar på norra delen av Kvarnholmen, dit Kalmar stad flyttades på 1650-talet. Undersökningarna omfattade en tidig provisorisk stadsmur från år 1657–1658, som lagts på holmens norra strandbrink. Lämningar av garveriverksamhet och en verkstadsbyggnad, kunde identifieras från 1660-talet, möjligen en barkkvarn. Bastionen Carolus Gustavus från år 1675 kunde undersökas på flera platser, en bastion som idag ligger helt dold under marken. Även den nya stadsmuren från år 1687 kunde dokumenteras. Från mitten av 1700-talet påträffades bostadshus till två stadsgårdar, anlagda på stadsvallen. Dessa finns belagda i skriftligt material från 1800-talets början, som bostäder för hantverkare och en mängd människor, vars liv här tillåts träda fram genom undersökningen.

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Research paper thumbnail of Klosterhuset i Vreta. Vreta klosters ekonomiområde. Rapport 2021:31. Arkeologisk undersökning och förundersökning

Under 2017 genomförde Arkeologerna en arkeologisk undersökning i Vreta kloster inför ombyggnation... more Under 2017 genomförde Arkeologerna en arkeologisk undersökning i Vreta kloster inför ombyggnation och iordningsställande av
ett besökscentrum i det så kallade Klosterhuset, en magasinsbyggnad från 1200-talets andra hälft. Undersökningen omfattade ledningsschakt
i och intill byggnaden, samt en förundersökning inför uppförande
av en ny magasinsbyggnad söder om Klosterhuset.
Inne i Klosterhuset påträffades äldre golvnivåer, och utanför byggnaden
framkom byggnationslager. I området öster om Klosterhuset påträffades ett äldre odlingslager med fynd som tyder på datering till äldre medeltid. I området påträffades även grunder till hittills okända byggnader, som hör till den äldre prästgårdens byggnader, men med möjligen äldre datering.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran & Menander, Hanna. 2020. Klosterhuset i Vreta – Inventering av äldre utställning och stenar. Rapport 2020:148. Arkeologisk inventering. Arkeologerna, Statens historiska museer.

I samband med planering för omgestaltning av det s k Klosterhuset i Vreta kloster till besökscent... more I samband med planering för omgestaltning av det s k Klosterhuset i
Vreta kloster till besökscentrum har Arkeologerna på uppdrag av
Vreta klosters församling genomfört en dokumentation av
Klosterhusets äldre utställning av gravstenar och andra stenfynd
från arkeologiska undersökningar.
Under våren 2017 genomfördes en inventering av stenar i det
äldre museet i Vreta kloster. Sammanlagt kunde 674 stenar
registreras och fotograferas.

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Research paper thumbnail of Kakel och kakelugnar i fyra tidigmoderna städer. Rapport från ett forskningsprojekt 2010–2014.

The report presents a research project on stove tiles and tile stoves as archaeological object fr... more The report presents a research project on stove tiles and tile stoves as archaeological object from the so called baroque period, from the end of 16th to the beginning of the 18th century. Tiles from available archaeological excavations in the four towns of Kalmar, Linköping, Jönköping and Norrköping have been analysed according to identified unique motive-types and their distribution in time and space. A rather unique assemblage of tiles from a complete tile stove in Kalmar is presented and discussed in accordance to the general problems of redepositional processes of material culture in the archaeological stratigraphy. The results indicate that the introduction of the new technology and/or fashion of tile stoves were highly dependent on an innovation centre, mostly a prominent residence, in the towns. The rather uneven distribution between, as well as in, the towns is discussed, and when discussing the profound changes in building and domestic culture during the period, more attention has to be paid to the changes on the single plots and in the single households.

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Research paper thumbnail of Kvarteret Gesällen 4 och 25 samt del av Kvarnholmen 2:2, Kalmar. Bilaga 10. Huskatalog. UV RAPPORT 2014:93

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran (red.). 2014. Kvarteret Gesällen 4 och 25. Särskild arkeologisk undersökning. Kalmar stad och kommun. Kalmar län. Riksantikvarieämbetet, arkeologiska uppdragsverksamheten. Rapport 2014:93.

Vid mitten av 1600-talet beslöt man flytta hela Kalmar stad, från det medeltida läget vid slottet... more Vid mitten av 1600-talet beslöt man flytta hela
Kalmar stad, från det medeltida läget vid slottet och
till den närbelägna Kvarnholmen. Den nya staden
utformades som en modern rutnätsplan, med raka
gator och kvarter, omgiven av ett befästningsverk.
Stora delar av detta syns fortfarande i dagens
stadsbild.
År 2011–12 genomförde Riksantikvarieämbetet,
Arkeologiska uppdragsverksamheten, UV,
tillsammans med Kalmar läns museum en
arkeologisk undersökning av kv Gesällen,
i norra delen av Kvarnholmen.
Undersökningen omfattade 12 hela tomter,
samt de inre delarna av bastionen Carolus Nonus
samt delar av stadsmuren och ett spontverk.
Undersökningen är den hittills största i det
tidigmoderna Kalmar, och ingår som en del
av en serie arkeologiska undersökningar på
Kvarnholmen under åren 2008–2012.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson & Nordström 2012. Kv Mästaren, Kalmar. Arkeologisk undersökning 2009.

Vid mitten av 1600-talet beslöt man flytta hela Kalmar stad, från det medeltida läget vid slotte... more Vid mitten av 1600-talet beslöt man flytta hela
Kalmar stad, från det medeltida läget vid slottet
och till den närbelägna Kvarnholmen. Något tiotal
år efter beslutet var flyttningen i det närmaste helt
klar. Den nya staden utformades som en modern
rutnätsplan, med raka gator och kvarter, omgiven
av ett befästningsverk. Stora delar av detta syns
fortfarande i dagens stadsbild.
Under sommaren 2009 genomförde Riksantikvarieämbetet,
UV Öst en arkeologiska undersökning i
kv Mästaren i de norra delarna på Kvarnholmen.
Anledningen till undersökningen var planerade
nybyggnation av huvudkontor och banklokaler för
Länsförsäkringar i Kalmar län.
Den arkeologiska undersökningen omfattade fyra
hela tomter (233–236) i södra delen samt delar av
ytterligare fem tomter (244–246) i norra delen.
Kronologiskt omfattar undersökningen perioden
från etableringen av området under 1660-talet,
med omfattande markplanering i den tidigare
havsviken samt flera olika bebyggelsefaser fram
till sekelskiftet 1800. Ett omfattande fyndmaterial
har tagits tillvara, framför allt keramik, kritpipor,
djurben, medan organiskt material var sämre bevarat.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2013. Hemma hos Fröken Löfgren – från 1600-talets kronotomter till 1700-talets hantverksgårdar. Kv Bokbindaren 28. Linköpings stad och kommun, Östergötlands län: arkeologisk slutundersökning.

UV Öst rapport 2013:31. Linköping: UV Öst, Avdelningen för arkeologiska undersökningar, Riksantikvarieämbetet.

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Research paper thumbnail of Romedahl, H. & Tagesson, G. 2010. 1600- och 1700-talslämningar på Kvarnholmen i centrala Kalmar. Sju undersökta tomter i kv Magistern.

Riksantikvarieämbetet, arkeologiska uppdragsverksamheten, UV Öst. Rapport 2010:26.

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Research paper thumbnail of I Erik Lundbergs Fotspår - arkeologisk undersökning i Vreta kloster 2005-2007. Riksantikvariäembetet

Arkeologisk rapport. Riksantikvarieämbetet UV Öst Rapport 2007:60, 2007

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. & Westerlund, Johan. 2004. Domkyrkoparken, Linköping. Gravar från 1100-talet till 1810. Otryckt rapport. Riksantikvarieämbetet, UV Öst. DAFF 2004:1.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2001. Strå kyrka. Byggnadsarkeologisk undersökning. Östergötlands länsmuseum. Rapport 101:2001.

Buildings archaeology in Strå church, Vadstena, Östergötland county, Sweden. The church from the ... more Buildings archaeology in Strå church, Vadstena, Östergötland county, Sweden. The church from the second half of the 12th century was documented thanks to a buildings renovation, comprising he medieval tower and southern part of the nave from 12 century, as well as the northern aisle from 1640s and the choir from 1703.

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Research paper thumbnail of Göran Tagesson 2001 Kungsbro, Vreta klosters socken, Linköpings kommun. Arkeologisk undersökning 1995-96

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 2000. Ett schakt genom Michel Grytstöpares gård: arkeologisk förundersökning : Krabbegatan - Storgatan - Slottsgatan samt Kungs Starby, Vadstena stad och kommun, Östergötland : dnr: 421-6906-1996. Linköping: Avd. för arkeologiska undersökningar, Riksantikvarieämbetet

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 1996. S:t Persgatan – Domkyrkoområdet. Arkeologiska undersökningar 1990-92. Östergötlands Länsmuseum, rapport, dnr 112/90.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 1994. Kungsbro, Vreta klosters socken. Arkeologisk undersökning 1993–1994. Otryckt rapport Östergötlands Länsmuseum, dnr 253/93 och 285/94.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 1992. Kungsbro, Vreta klosters socken. Arkeologisk undersökning 1992. Otryckt rapport Östergötlands länsmuseum, dnr 265/92.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 1992. Kungsbro, Vreta klosters socken. Arkeologisk undersökning 1991. Otryckt rapport Östergötlands länsmuseum, dnr 157/91.

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Research paper thumbnail of Tagesson, Göran. 1991. Kungsbro, Vreta klosters socken. Arkeologisk undersökning 1990. Otryckt rapport Östergötlands länsmuseum, dnr 401/89.

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