Urban Diaspora

The Rise and Fall of Diaspora Communities in Early Modern Denmark and Sweden

Jette Linaa

• Publisher: Aarhus University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9788793423510
• eBook ISBN:
  9788793423565
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

This is a book on the rise and fall of diasporic communities in Early Modern urban centers in Denmark and Sweden. It contains 17 chapters written by archaeologists, historians and scientists, ranging from in-depth studies of artefacts, biofacts and archaeological features to large-scale analyses of community formation among natives and migrants of multiple origins. The plethora of sources and approaches afforded by the numerous disciplines involved enables a significant new insight into the creation and recreation of migrant communities in these Early Modern towns.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Titlepage
• Colophon
• Contents
• Editor´s preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction (Jette Linaa)
• Chapter 2: The archaeology of Early Modern Aalborg, c. 1450-1650 (Christian Vrængmose Jensen)
• Chapter 3: The immigrants in Aalborg 1550-1650 (Jakob Ørnbjerg)
• Chapter 4: Using plant remains to identify diaspora communities in Late Medieval and Early Modern Aalborg (Peter Mose Jensen)
• Chapter 5: The archaeology of Elsinore and the Sand (Liv Appel)
• Chapter 6: The townscape of Elsinore: Reconstructing the street layout, plot structure and population profile of a demolished part of town (Liv Appel & Jette Linaa)
• Chapter 7: The making of diaspora communities. Networks of origin, credit, religion, marriage and spiritual kinship among migrants and Danes in Elsinore 1550-1660 (Jette Linaa)
• Chapter 8: The materiality of longing and belonging: Diaspora communities reflected in probate inventories (Jette Linaa)
• Chapter 9: Plant resources in Elsinore in Early Modern times as revealed by archaeobotanical analyses (Sabine Karg & Christian Flensborg)
• Chapter 10: Faunal remains from the 16th-17th-century settlement at the Sand, Elsinore (Inge Bødker Enghoff)
• Chapter 11: Stove tiles as a source of information about daily life in migrant households in Aalborg and Elsinore (Rainer Atzbach)
• Chapter 12: Pottery in Elsinore and Aalborg (Jette Linaa)
• Chapter 13: Migration and immigrants in Nya Lödöse 1473–1624 (Daniel Larsson & Christina Rosén)
• Chapter 14: Traces of a foreign kitchen: Plant material from Nya Lödöse and early Gothenburg in a diaspora perspective (Jens Heimdahl)
• Chapter 15: Identity expressed through fish consumption: Fish in the cuisine at Nya Lödöse (Emma Maltin)
• Chapter 16: Pottery from Nya Lödöse in a diaspora perspective (Kristina Carlsson)
• Chapter 17: The rise and fall of diaspora communities in Denmark and Sweden (Jette Linaa)
• Sources