Publications

A selection from Stockholm University publication database

• Dispersal geography
  Alistair G. Auffret, Johan Berg, Sara Cousins.
• Article Open Access to Rural Landscapes!
  2014. Lowe Börjeson (et al.). Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History 1 (1), 1-2

  The academic study of rural landscapes covers a broad range of academic disciplines and thematic, methodological and theoretical concerns and interests; including questions concerned with resource use (e.g. agriculture, forestry, water and mining), settlement, livelihoods, conflicts, conservation, culture and identity. This diversity is clearly a strength (the rich empirical and intellectual base), but also presents a challenge, as the dissemination of research findings is distributed through a plethora of publishing channels, which do not necessarily encourage exchange of results and ideas that are not already perceived as germane to already established academic networks.

• Report Generiska färdigheter
  2017. Johan Berg.
• Chapter Skänninge i landskapet
  2013. Johan Berg. Borgare, bönder och bröder, 19-42
• Chapter Härnevi i det äldre kartmaterialet
  2012. Johan Berg. Härnevi kyrka och socken, 71-74
• Chapter Fornlämningar och jordägande
  2009. Johan Berg. Skuggor i ett landskap, 102-145
• Article Från bymark till stadsjord
  2008. Johan Berg. Bebyggelsehistorisk tidskrift (55), 57-71
• Chapter Estates and peasants in 17th century Sweden
  2007. Johan Berg. Bauern zwischen Herrschaft und Genossenschaft, 219-234
• Chapter Den privata staden?
  2006. Johan Berg. Nya stadsarkeologiska horisonter, 318
• Report Landscape, history and people in a geographical perspective
  2006. Johan Berg, Ulf Jansson, Anders Wästfelt.
• Thesis (Doc) Gods och landskap
  2003. Johan Berg, Mats Widgren, Tomas Germundsson.

  This study examines landownership structures and settlement during the Middle Ages in the province of Östergötland in Sweden. It departs from a critical approach to the established view of social structure and property in the Scandinavian medieval society.

  The investigations are made at two levels. The first level is a cross section of the mid 16th century. This investigation shows that lay aristocrats and ecclesiastical institutions controlled most of the land, especially in the core areas of the parishes. The second level is a detailed investigation at the farm level in six parishes starting from the middle of the 16th century and working retrogresively to the early Middle Ages. This study shows that the landowning structure of the 16th century can be traced back to about AD 1300. For the early Middle Ages reconstructions are made through inheritance successions and genealogies of the aristocratic families. These reconstructions show that, in some parishes, most of the land was probably controlled by a few very rich families or dynasties during the early Middle Ages. The results lead to a question about the Viking Age and medieval society in general. This question is answered in a hypothesis stressing the development of the concept of land ownership in combination with the development of the land tenure system as one of the important factors for reproduction of local power during the Viking Age and early Middle Ages.

• Chapter Makten, marken, tiden och rummet
  2003. Johan Berg. Med landskapet i centrum, 89-110
• Chapter Stormannamiljöer och landskap
  2000. Johan Berg. En bok om Husbyar, 151-166

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