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Alkarp, Magnus
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Alkarp, M. (2009). De vittberesta tvivlarna. Gamla Uppsala Hembygdsförenings årskrift
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2009 (Swedish)In: Gamla Uppsala Hembygdsförenings årskriftArticle in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: , 2009
National Category
Classical Archaeology and Ancient History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-121463 (URN)
Available from: 2010-03-23 Created: 2010-03-23 Last updated: 2025-02-25Bibliographically approved
Alkarp, M. (2009). Den smågrinige flanören: - Bulstrode Whitelocke och den svenska forntiden.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Den smågrinige flanören: - Bulstrode Whitelocke och den svenska forntiden
2009 (Swedish)Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
National Category
Archaeology History of Science and Ideas
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-121464 (URN)
Available from: 2010-03-24 Created: 2010-03-23 Last updated: 2025-02-21Bibliographically approved
Alkarp, M. (2009). Det Gamla Uppsala: Berättelser & Metamorfoser. (Doctoral dissertation). Uppsala: Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia
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2009 (Swedish)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
Alternative title[en]
The Old Uppsala : Stories & Metamorphoses
Abstract [en]

Ancient Uppsala is a most versatile place. At various times it has sated all types of scholar, nourished every kind of ideology, and fed all forms of doubt. Portrayals of the site have almost exclusively been made at times when it was necessary to define the relationship between the people and the elite, the elite and the Crown, or the Crown and the Church. These narratives take many forms – ancient myths, missionary tales, stories of princely power play, the struggle for social integration in early modern Sweden, or tales about absolute royal power, the free peasant, the oppressed serf, centralism, or the manipulation of history. Uppsala, almost without exception, was the stage on which vital scenes of this kind were played out.  This type of narrative, of which there is no shortage, is the main focus of this thesis. It aims to analyse how the image of Viking Age and medieval Uppsala was formed and has changed at various times, to follow the threads of discussion, and to place ideas pertaining to the site in their historical and intellectual context. The thesis sheds light on two periods in particular: the Gothism of the seventeenth century, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the latter period characterized by nationalism, racial biology, and political extremism.

The dreams (and nightmares) of scholars are contrasted with the Gamla Uppsala of reality. Abundant archive material readily allows us to follow the nature of daily life in Gamla Uppsala parish, and to analyse how its inhabitants protected themselves from the material and spiritual destruction of the site. Today, the most significant archaeological observations are often made in the archive, where ‘ancient’ remains are frequently reappraised as relatively mundane products of the more recent past.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2009. p. 457
Series
Occasional papers in archaeology, ISSN 1100-6358 ; 49
Keywords
old uppsala, idolatry, central places, sanctuaries, atlantica, hyperborean, goticism, sanctuaries, nationalism, national monuments, nationalsocialism
National Category
Archaeology
Research subject
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-108685 (URN)978-91-506-2095-5 (ISBN)
Public defence
2009-11-21, Universitetshuset IX, Universitetsparken, Uppsala, 13:00 (Swedish)
Opponent
Supervisors
Available from: 2009-10-26 Created: 2009-09-27 Last updated: 2009-10-26Bibliographically approved
Alkarp, M. (2009). Professorn som inte var nazist: - Sune Lindqvist, sensationalismen och sanningen. Dagens Nyheter, Upsala Nya Tidning
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Professorn som inte var nazist: - Sune Lindqvist, sensationalismen och sanningen
2009 (Swedish)In: Dagens Nyheter, Upsala Nya TidningArticle in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Keywords
Sune Lindqvist, antifascism, nationalism, sensationalism, national socialism, infiltration, Germany.
National Category
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-121469 (URN)
Available from: 2010-03-23 Created: 2010-03-23 Last updated: 2010-12-21Bibliographically approved
Alkarp, M. (2009). Påskkravallerna 1943: - när forntiden vreds ur nationalisternas händer.
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2009 (English)Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: , 2009
Keywords
Antifascism, svensk nazism, högerextremism
National Category
Archaeology Archaeology History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-121470 (URN)
Available from: 2010-03-23 Created: 2010-03-23 Last updated: 2011-01-12Bibliographically approved
Gustafsson, J. & Alkarp, M. (2007). Array GPR investigation of the cathedral of Uppsala. Near surface geophysics, 5(3), 203-207
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2007 (English)In: Near surface geophysics, ISSN 1569-4445, Vol. 5, no 3, p. 203-207Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this paper an example of a so-called array GPR investigation outside the Cathedral of Uppsala, Sweden is shown. The aim with the investigation was to reveal historically interesting features in a surrounding where excavation is not allowed. In the investigation 17 different GPR antennas of the same frequency was used to give measurements in 16 parallel profiles simultaneously. When several separate transmitter and receiver antennas are combined into one single antenna array unit, exactly positioned parallel profiles are gained, resulting in a seamless high-resolution 3D picture of the subsurface. Processing the radar data into the resulting images involves several steps as aligning traces, removing static shifts and match the mean response. Radar data is merged with geometry data from a total station (used to track the position of the antenna array) and then gridded and migrated. The resulting pictures in form of time slices gave in the presented Uppsala case the archaeologists very valuable help to understand the subsurface and map historical anomalies. The findings points on older paths and early medieval streets among others.

Keywords
markradar, geofysik, GPR, Uppsala, Uppsala Domkyrka
National Category
Earth and Related Environmental Sciences Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-18389 (URN)000247099200006 ()
Available from: 2006-12-20 Created: 2006-12-20 Last updated: 2025-01-31Bibliographically approved
Alkarp, M. (2007). Från gästabudet i Valhall till konferensen i Wannsee: nazistisk infiltration av svensk arkeologi 1933-1945. In: Det förlorade templet: -.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Från gästabudet i Valhall till konferensen i Wannsee: nazistisk infiltration av svensk arkeologi 1933-1945
2007 (Swedish)In: Det förlorade templet: -, 2007Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Abstract [en]

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Keywords
svensk arkeologihistoria, infiltration, nazism
National Category
Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-18382 (URN)- (ISBN)
Available from: 2006-12-20 Created: 2006-12-20Bibliographically approved
Alkarp, M. (2007). Gabriele Tadini and the fortification of Rhodes. Helios, 1(1)
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2007 (English)In: Helios, Vol. 1, no 1Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
National Category
Classical Archaeology and Ancient History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-18375 (URN)
Note
Abstract in greek. Available from: 2006-12-20 Created: 2006-12-20 Last updated: 2025-02-25Bibliographically approved
Alkarp, M. (2006). De illvilliga händerna. In: Det förlorade templet: -. : -
Open this publication in new window or tab >>De illvilliga händerna
2006 (Swedish)In: Det förlorade templet: -, - , 2006Chapter in book (Other (popular scientific, debate etc.))
Abstract [en]

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Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
-, 2006
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-18384 (URN)
Available from: 2006-12-20 Created: 2006-12-20
Alkarp, M. (2006). Om ett förträffligt fynd i en örtabok: - Biskop Karls Annotationer. TOR, -(-)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Om ett förträffligt fynd i en örtabok: - Biskop Karls Annotationer
2006 (Swedish)In: TOR, ISSN -, Vol. -, no -Article in journal (Other (popular scientific, debate etc.)) Published
Abstract [en]

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Keywords
Biskop Karl, Gamla Uppsala, Hednatempel
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-18383 (URN)
Available from: 2006-12-20 Created: 2006-12-20 Last updated: 2011-01-11
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