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The Early Modern period (c. 1500-1800) evades easy characterization. Traditionally it has been regarded as a transition period between Medieval and Modern times in European history. However, historians today are more interested in global developments and their local manifestations.
Climate and Environmental History studies how variations and changes in nature have impacted people and societies throughout history. The field also asks questions about how humans have adapted to these changes, how they have impacted nature in return, and how nature has been experienced and understood through time.
Stockholm University has a long tradition of research which puts relations between men and women into focus. Gender historians today also problematize other types of power dynamics connected to social categories such as class, age, sexuality or ethnicity.
History is about people of the past. Historians study actors, structures, events, ideas and symbols and their meaning in a vast period of time - spanning from yesterday to thousands of years back in time.
This field studies international political, economical and power relations from a historical perspective.
History of Sports is a research field which focuses on how and why sports have evolved as they have.
The sea is a means of transportation as well as a stage for violent battles. It separates nations and peoples - and it can bring them together. It is a site for trade as well as for plunder, it gives us vital natural resources while storms can make it deadly for some. This field studies humans' historical relationship to seas, oceans and waterways.
Medieval times is a period of time in the history of Western Europe, from circa 500 to 1500 A.D - but it is also something more. It functions as a mirror for the present to define itself - for good and for bad - as the time when everything began, or the time which thankfully is history.
The Modern History field covers the period from the late 18th century up until present day. A large portion of the University's historical research is focused on this historical period.
How have cities emerged and how do they change over time? Within the field of urban history, a multitude of perspectives, themes and disciplines meet; cultural, economical, judicial, settlement historical, and spacial aspects of cities and city formations.
