The conditions for the production, circulation and use of knowledge in early modern societies are central to many scholars at LUCK and to our broad collaborations with book and media history as well as global history and economic history. We are interested in a range of topics, from the role of religion and confessionalization in the early modern knowledge societies to the medialization of scientific knowledge for practical aims, and the impact of work organizations serving as knowledge communities, developing both literacy and numeracy.

Coordinator at LUCK: Anna Nilsson Hammar

Suggested reading:

Weber, Kajsa. “Luther in Printed Marginalia: Reference Notes, Reading and Representations in Swedish Lutheran Prints 1570–1630”, Reformation & Renaissance Review vol 24, nr2 (2022), s. 82-100, 19 s.

Brilkman, Kajsa. “Confessional Knowledge: How might the History of Knowledge and the History of Confessional Europe influence each other?” In: Forms of Knowledge: Developing the History of Knowledge. Östling, J., Heidenblad, D. L. & Hammar, A. N. (red.). Lund: Nordic Academic Press 2020, s. 26-49.

Bodensten, Erik, “A societal history of potato knowledge in Sweden c. 1650–1800” Scandinavian Journal of History Vol 46, nr 1 (2021), s. 42-62.

Nilsson Hammar, Anna & Norrhem, Svante, “Knowing how: Estate Management, Practical Knowledge, and Agency among Aristocratic Women in Early Modern Sweden” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Vol 17, nr 2 (2023), s. 328-353.

Nilsson Hammar, Anna ”Them Samwetzqualdom til Tröst: Erik Mattson och samvetets kunskapshistoria i det tidiga 1600-talets Sverige”, in Samvete i Sverige: Om frihet och lydnad från medeltiden till idag, ed. by Lindkvist, L. & Ljungberg, J. (Nordic Academic Press 2021).

Nilsson Hammar, Anna & Svante Norrhem, Serving Aristocracy: Negotiation, Learning, and Mobility in an Early Modern Knowledge Community (Routledge, 2025).