Gustavus Vasa Research Articles

Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740–1820. Ed. David O’Shaughnessy.

<i>Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740–1820</i>. Ed. David O’Shaughnessy.

Book Review: Gustavus Vasa Fox of the Union Navy: A Biography

Book Review: Gustavus Vasa Fox of the Union Navy: A Biography

Some British Writers and Gustavus Vasa

Some British Writers and Gustavus Vasa

The Subject of Abolitionist Rhetoric: Freedom and Trauma in "The Life of Olaudah Equiano"

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,or Gustavus Vasa, the African (1789) includes an account of the abduction and transportation from West Africa to the Americas of a former slave written by himself. As a unique historical artifact of the abolition movement, the autobiography continues to garner considerable critical attention. But, despite the self-authenticating tactics of the subtitle, an apparent split in the narrative voice raises questions of authorial intention and control. Critics have answered these by celebrating the text's disruption of Western modes of thinking, of binary distinctions between epistemological categories such as black and white, or civilization and savagery. Yet nascenta spirations to represent Equiano as a visionary or as a redemptive figure of modernity are prohibited by his apparent acquiescence to Enlightenment reason and the principles of free trade, his submission to the judicial processes of the early capitalist state and his evangelical impulses.

The Church of Sweden and the Unravelling of Establishment

The Church of England and the Church of Sweden have been in communion with one another since the early 1920s and have much in common. Both maintain the historic episcopate, both place great emphasis on liturgy, and since the Reformation both have long been ‘by law established’—a process which began in Sweden when Gustavus Vasa took the throne in 1523 after the successful war of liberation against Denmark, was confirmed by the Riksdag of Västerås in 1544 and, after some vicissitudes, was finally settled by the Pact of Succession of 1604.

Gustavus Vasa and the Myth of the Mines

(1995). Gustavus Vasa and the Myth of the Mines. Studia Neophilologica: Vol. 67, No. 1, pp. 21-39.

Public finance and the national economy in early sixteenth century Sweden

Abstract Sources in public archives for Swedish economic history over the last four centuries are more homogeneous, frequently more reliable and, in relation to the subjects treated, more abundant than those of most other countries. For the earlier centuries the reverse is true: source material for economic history is both scantier and less uniform, and the path to quantitative determination is longer and more difficult than in many other countries. Between the two periods the boundary runs, surprisingly sharp and clear, at about the year 1540 when Gustavus Vasa's national monarchy had been in existence for roughly two decades.

BROOKE'S GUSTAVUS VASA

BROOKE'S GUSTAVUS VASA R. W. C R. W. C Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, Volume I, Issue 4, October 1950, Pages 460–461, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/I.4.460 Published: 01 October 1950

Nursing in Sweden

TODAY Sweden is said to have the lowest infant mortality in the world, and its state control of medical education is often commented on. Regardless of this, Sweden's history of nursing dates back only to 1850. But if one ventures to investigate, one discovers the singularly illuminating history of the Swedish midwife who, up to the dawn of the modern nursing movement, held the respected state position of midwife and nurse in every district. Today there are 3,000 practicing, licensed midwives in Sweden, while the total quota of trained and semitrained nurses is 5,000. Only 800 of these midwives are practicing in cities and towns, while 2,200 have been assigned by the state to country sections. In Sweden 80 per cent of deliveries are conducted by midwives, while in America 80 per cent are conducted by physicians. In Sweden supervised midwife practice has been in vogue for more than 200 years. Aside from the midwife, Swedish medical history reads like the records from other lands. At the dawn of history the Swedes were warriors and exploring Vikings. In 800 A.D., disciples of Christianity began to spread the message of a forgiving God, who soon was to replace the heroes of war and thunder of the Norse mythology. With this new religion their social attitude changed slowly into compassion for their fellow men. A period of healing by supernatural means, crusades to saints' graves, et cetera, coincided with their adoption of the new faith. The first hospital of which we have any record was built at Lund, the university town in the south of Sweden, in 1149. The second was at Visby, the trading center of the Hanseatic League, 1218. These hospitals were established chiefly for the incurables, poor, sick, and mentally ill. The personnel who cared for the inmates of these hospitals of Catholic Sweden in 1300, were monks and nuns. The predominant diseases seem to have been leprosy, Oriental plague, and smallpox. The hospitals were built outside of the city walls, and they were supported by voluntary contributions. Since 1530 the state has been in control of all medical education in Sweden. In that year Gustavus Vasa adopted the reformation for Sweden, and since then the country has been predominantly Lutheran. At that time the cloisters, with all their property, were turned into hospitals of the state. Other new institutions were built, chiefly for the use of paupers and the sick. In the country districts small nursing homes of five to six beds were established. Undoubtedly the nuns did some of the nursing still, but the staff listed is a man helper, a housekeeper, a priest, and a doctor. Barber surgeons and quack apothecaries served with the army and navy in times of war. Definite steps to safeguard the public health of the country and to improve medical teaching were taken in 1595, when a medical faculty was established at the University of Upsala. At that time barber surgeons were compelled to take examinations before practicing their trade. In addition an appeal to professional men of the better classes was sent out, in which lawyers were urged to practice medicine as a hobby. Thus, often medicine and law became the dual lifework of many prominent men, and this combination is to be noted. For even today public health

The daughter of Gustavus Vasa

The daughter of Gustavus Vasa

BROOKE'S GUSTAVUS VASA

BROOKE'S GUSTAVUS VASA Get access R. W. C. R. W. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, Volume os-II, Issue 5, January 1926, Page 99, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/os-II.5.99 Published: 01 January 1926

BROOKE'S GUSTAVUS VASA

BROOKE'S GUSTAVUS VASA Get access R. W. C R. W. C Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, Volume os-I, Issue 4, October 1925, Pages 460–461, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/os-I.4.460 Published: 01 October 1925

The Gustavus Vasa Fox collection of Russian souvenirs in the United States National Museum

The Gustavus Vasa Fox collection of Russian souvenirs in the United States National Museum

Gustavus vasa, a negro

Gustavus vasa, a negro Get access Gloucester Gloucester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s6-II, Issue 49, 4 December 1880, Page 447, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s6-II.49.447d Published: 04 December 1880