Aarhus University Press

Aarhus University Press is a commercial Foundation which was inaugurated in 1985 for the purpose of disseminating the results of scientific research, as well as other scientific activity within the University of Aarhus. The Foundation is managed by a board of at least 5 and maximum of 13 members appointed by the Academic Council of the University on the recommendation of the Rector on the basis of proposals from the main areas.

Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens, XI

Format: Hardback
Pages: 340
ISBN: 9788775975570
Pub Date: 01 Jun 2025
Description:
Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens vol. XI includes reports from DanishGreek fieldworks at Kalydon, Cyprus and Syros and six contributions on ancient studies. The contributions deal with a fragment from Parthenon brought to Denmark by a marine officer in 1835, sculptures from the Heroon at Kalydon, the vault in 4th century BC Greek architecture, Athenian local historiography, Hellenistic and Roman pottery from Soli, Cyprus and the BronzeAge divine sunhorse found in Denmark and the links to Early Iron Age Italy and Greece.
Continuity and Change Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 532
ISBN: 9788793423541
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2025
Description:
Based on the extensive collection and systematic analysis of data from a limited area in the eastern part of the Jutland peninsula in Denmark, this book focuses on revealing the cultural development during the Neolithic period (3900-1700 BC) within this area.For each timespan, the development of the land use, ritual sphere and social structure are examined. The analysis of the collected data is undertaken in association with relevant data from other parts of South Scandinavia, to support the basis of information as well as to illuminate the connections with other areas.
Viking Dynasties Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 620
ISBN: 9788793423107
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2025
Description:
The royal sites of Lejre and Gamla Uppsala loom large in Nordic history and folklore, as aristocratic power centres founded by descendants of the gods. With almost no contemporary records from within Scandinavia, the histories of the early Viking Age kings of Denmark and Sweden have largely been shaped by foreign chroniclers and medieval legends – each adding layers of myth and bias. At the same time, scholarly trends in the interpretation of such texts have moved through cycles of source critical emphasis that have spanned the full bandwidth from extreme credulity to the total rejection of any genuine historical content.
Deutsche auf der Flucht Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 115
ISBN: 9788772197753
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
Illustrations: Illustrations, color
Description:
Endlich befreit. Die Erleichterung in Dänemark im Frühjahr 1945 war groß. Allerdings war dies keine große Hilfe für die über 200.
Danish Archaeological Investigations on Failaka, Kuwait. The Second Millennium Settlements, vol. 5 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9788793423725
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2022
Illustrations: Illustrations, color
Description:
Excavations in 1958-1963 on the island of Failaka in Kuwait uncovered a small community of Dilmun traders from the second millennium BC. Prominent among the finds were 629 beads, most of them made of semi-precious stone, such as different varieties of chalcedony (agate, carnelian, jasper, and moss agate) and quartz (rock crystal, milky quartz, and smoky quartz), and a range of other stone types, such as calcite, chlorite, lapis lazuli, turquoise and porphyry. Additionally, part of the beads was made of glass: a new prestige material of the second millennium.
Culture and Conflict Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 292
ISBN: 9788772194349
Pub Date: 28 Jul 2022
Illustrations: Illustrations, color
Description:
Cultural differences are often the trigger for conflict – whether politically motivated or arising from dissonant understandings of national culture. But what we regard as distinctive today in our cultural heritage or day-to-day cultural experience is deeply rooted in the rich diversity of the national currents of the nineteenth century. Culture and Conflict: Nation-Building in Denmark and Scandinavia, 1800–1930 explores the many strands of Danish and Scandinavian culture that helped to shape these cultural identities.
Krøyer and Paris Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9788772198965
Pub Date: 28 Jul 2022
Illustrations: Illustrations, color
Description:
‘A lover of light’: in 1912, a French critic used these words to describe the great Danish painter Peder Severin Krøyer, who had close ties to the French art scene for more than two decades. Krøyer first visited Paris in 1877, and his many letters clearly show the impact French art had on Krøyer’s own development as a painter, on the artists’ colony in Skagen, and on Danish art history in general. In Krøyer and Paris.

Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens Vol. X

Format: Paperback
Pages: 340
ISBN: 9788772197135
Pub Date: 28 Jul 2022
Series: Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens
Illustrations: Illustrations, color
Description:
PoDIA 10 features articles presenting the results from archaeological sites in Cyprus and at Sikyon, Greece, the activities of Danish philhellenes, and a re-evaluation of the significance of an archaic Attic Sphinx in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. Kristina Winther-Jacobsen analyses and discusses the ceramics and associated burial customs from two tombs in Cyprus from the Hellenistic-Roman period. Silke Müth and her team of researchers offer a preliminary report on the excavations and accompanying research in Old Sikyon 2018-2019.
Peoplehood in the Nordic World Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 115
ISBN: 9788772197258
Pub Date: 14 Jul 2022
Description:
What do we mean when we say "the people"? In a Nordic context, the word "people" was historically associated not with members of a sovereign nation but of a household, church, or state. The term remains a battlefield of mixed or even opposing interests and has developed at least three different meanings: a political unit, a cultural entity, and a social multitude.
Urban Planning in the Nordic World Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 115
ISBN: 9788772197241
Pub Date: 14 Jul 2022
Illustrations: Illustrations, color
Description:
Urban planning is a keystone in the materialization of the Nordic welfare states. That is not to say that there is one particular city form or planning practice that is synonymous with the emerging welfare city, as welfare per se is far from normative. On the contrary, welfare is a highly ambiguous and contested notion that has changed over the postwar decades, which is also reflected in the development of the welfare city.
Northern Emporium Vol 1 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 464
ISBN: 9788793423749
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2022
Illustrations: Illustrations, color
Description:
In the early Middle Ages, a network of maritime trading towns – emporia – emerged along the northern coasts of Europe. These early urban sites are among archaeology’s most notable contributions to our knowledge of the period between the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire and the growth of a maritime-oriented world in the Viking Age. Ribe, on the western coast of Denmark, is one of these sites.
Children's Literature in the Nordic World Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9788772195919
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2022
Illustrations: 10 Colour illustrations
Description:
This volume introduces an international readership to the role books have played in the lives and upbringing of young people in the Nordic countries from the 1750s until today. Charlotte Appel and Nina Christensen look beyond an overview of noteworthy texts and characters to address the region’s distinctive reading cultures and the interactions between literature and changing views of childhood, with a special focus on Denmark.The emergence of a dedicated market for children’s books in the Global North coincided with national school reforms, when Luther’s Small Catechism started to be supplemented—or replaced—by new books published for and about young readers, learners, and citizens.
In-Between Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 130
ISBN: 9788772191386
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2022
Illustrations: Illustrations, color
Description:
In-Between: Exploring Small Cracks of Everyday Life is an anthology comprising contributions from a group of social scientists all preoccupied with the possibilities and potentials of working ethnographically. The chapters of the book investigates a range of small everyday life ‘cracks’ – a notion covering unnoticed, withdrawn and overlooked phenomena alike, and which designate the metaphorical interstices and in-betweens that influence and affect most aspects of everyday experience, the comprehensive field also subject to ethnographic inquiry. The chapters in the anthology are all based on original fieldwork and explore different cracks occurring in-between humans as well as in-between humans and non-human entities.
The Early Danish-Muscovite Treaties, 1493-1523 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 189
ISBN: 9788772194059
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2022
Illustrations: Colour illustrations
Description:
In 1493, King Hans of Denmark and Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow concluded one of the earliest treaties of alliance between a Catholic European and an Orthodox Muscovite ruler. The alliance proved viable enough to generate two further treaties and an astounding fifty-plus diplomatic missions between Copenhagen and Moscow over the next thirty years. Yet little of scholarly value has been written about this unique late-medieval relationship across a divisive religious border.
Between Denmark and Detroit Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 542
ISBN: 9788771848359
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Illustrations: Illustrations, color
Description:
In 1919, the Ford Motor Company – the world’s largest automobile manufacturer – decided to make a small Nordic country its bridgehead to continental Europe. Denmark was a good choice geographically and because of the country’s favourable customs policy. During the 1920s, Ford’s iconic Model T was assembled in Copenhagen, with large quantities exported from there to most of north-eastern Europe.
The Core of Learning Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 412
ISBN: 9788772192376
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Series: N.F.S. Grundtvig: Works in English
Description:
The Core of Learning presents the philosophical framework of N.F.S.