The history of knowledge programmatically encompasses all forms of knowledge, not just scholarly endeavors and circulation of knowledge in the public sphere. At LUCK, there has been a longstanding interest in how knowledge function in people’s everyday lives. In this way, new lines of research have been opened – for example by studying servants’ capabilities in early modern aristocratic households, and private economic forums and blogs in our digital age.

LUCK has sought to advance the theme of everyday knowledge through seminars and publications. In the coming years, we see great potential both for new empirical research and to refine theoretical understandings and methodological approaches.

Coordinator at LUCK: David Larsson Heidenblad

Suggested reading:

Nilsson Hammar, Anna, “Theoria, praxis and poiesis: Theoretical considerations on the circulation of knowledge in everyday life”, Circulation of Knowledge: Explorations in the History of Knowledge (Nordic Academic Press, 2018).

Nilsson Hammar, Anna & Svante Norrhem, “The capacity to act: On phronetic knowledge among the less privileged in seventeenth-century Sweden”, Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge (Nordic Academic Press, 2023). 

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

Östling, Johan & David Larsson Heidenblad & Anna Nilsson Hammar, Forms of Knowledge: Developing the History of Knowledge (Nordic Academic Press, 2020).

Östling, Johan & David Larsson Heidenblad, The History of Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009047715