A contribution to the popular international and interdisciplinary field of collective memory within a Scandinavian context, this reference presents a number of case studies from the Middle Age to the present time that discuss how people look to the past for identity and meaning. Acknowledging that many pasts exist sometimes harmoniously and other times in conflict this resource attempts to negotiate the past by analyzing the tensions that occur when individuals with different interests, understandings, and points of view study history and by exploring the inherent desire to develop a consensus between the past and the present. Examining subject areas such as social and cultural history, literature, cultural studies, archeology, mythology, and anthropology, this study expresses how crucial it is to understand the processes of dealing with the past when trying to chart how and why societies and communities change and evolve.

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Foreword
Negotiating Negotiations Theorising a concept – conceptualising theory
Negotiating the Past in the High Middle Ages
Historical Writing and the Political Situation in Iceland 1100–1400
Political Polemics in Early Modern Scandinavia
National Histories Sven Lagerbring and his Channels of Communication
Negotiating the History of the World
On Whales, Potholes and Giants
The Historical Novel Negotiating the Past Enquist’s The Visit of the Royal Physician
Using a Past – Magistra Vitæ Approaches to History
Personal Pain, National Narrative Commemorating an SS-camp
Negotiating Holocaust Memory in School-trip Reports
The Emperor and the Aunts
Negotiating Pasts – an Afterthought
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