Call for Papers Merit, Worth, and Social Advancement in the Early Modern World: Rethinking Meritocracy as a Category of Historical Analysis University of Hamburg, 7–8 September 2026 Organised by Carolin Gluchowski (Universität Hamburg) and Asger Wienberg (Lund University) Conceptual Framework The term meritocracy is a modern one. Coined in the twentieth century and shaped by…
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Seminar: Serving Aristocracy in an Early Modern Knowledge Community
As a part of LUCK’s seminar series, Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem will on 13 May, 13.15–15.00 (CEST), present their new monograph: Serving Aristocracy: Negotiation, Learning, and Mobility in An Early Modern Knowledge Community (Routledge). You will find a summary of the book as well an open access link below. The seminar is a hybrid event:…
LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge 