Dick Harrison
Swedish historian and professor (Lund University), specialist in medieval history and author of numerous scholarly and popular history books.
Books
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1. Jarlens Sekel
En berättelse om 1200-talets Sverige
A vivid narrative of 12th-century Sweden that shows how dynastic struggles, powerful jarls, the growing influence of the Church and shifting economic and legal practices combined to transform a loose patchwork of regional powers into a more centralized medieval state; the book weaves political conflict, crusading ventures to the eastern Baltic, social and economic change and everyday life together, drawing on contemporary sources to illuminate how violence, diplomacy and institutional change reshaped Scandinavian society.