In my essay, I explore the concept of knowledge in early Swedish psychotherapy. When it comes to describing mental illness and its treatment there has never been much consensus, but the early twentieth century was particularly marked by heated debates and conflicting…

A central issue in the history of knowledge has been to define what knowledge means as a way of defining what the history of knowledge is about. One way of doing this has been to delimit it from the adjacent concept of information: information is raw whereas knowledge is cooked to use a common distinction…

In March 2020, our new edited volume Forms of Knowledge: Developing the History of Knowledge (Nordic Academic Press) will be published. The book is a product of the newly established Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) and brings together some twenty historians from different scholarly traditions to develop the history of knowledge. In…

In a new article in the historical journal Historisk tidskrift, Kajsa Brilkman takes issue with an established interpretation of the Reformation in Sweden. Drawing on international scholarship and utilising methods from the history of the book, she argues that the term “the Reformation” should be reserved for the first half of 16th century, a period…

The Swedish Research Council has announced the new projects that it will fund and we are very delighted that several of them will explore dimensions of the history of knowledge. Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem (history, Lund) will study Swedish aristocratic households 1618-1710 and what opportunities they offered to servants in terms of careers,…

On 4–5 November, twenty-two historians met at beautiful Häckeberga Castle for an intense and productive workshop, “The Future of the History of Knowledge”.

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, one of the major funding bodies in Sweden, has decided to award the program “Neoliberalism in the Nordics: developing an absent theme” 33,1 million SEK. The program is led by Jenny Andersson and will run from 2020 to 2025. It gathers a dozen researchers, among them David Larsson Heidenblad from the history of…