Person
Professor, Division Manager, Manager of Research and Research Education
- Division of Book History
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail jonas.nordinkultur.luse
Phone +46 46 222 31 42
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I am Professor of Book and Library History.
Below you find information about my activities since October 2018. For previous activities and publications, visit jonasnordin.eu.Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- TTT: Text till tiden! Medeltida texter i kontext - då och nu (research leader)
I am professor of book and library history since October 2018. I have a PhD in history from Stockholm University (2000).
From 2007 to 2018 I worked at Kungliga Biblioteket/The National Library of Sweden, doing research and working with with infrastructural matters. Among my projects there I am especially proud of the digitization of the master drawings and engravings to Erik Dahlbergh's Suecia antiqua et hodierna, a topographical work from the seventeenth century. I am presently studying the production and publication of another of Dahlbergh's works, De rebus a Carolo Gustavo Sveciæ rege gestis commentariorum, libri septem, with text by the renowned political philosopher Samuel von Pufendorf, who was also a professor at Lund University.
I am also heading the research project "TTT: Medieval texts in context – then an now". The project involves some 250 old Swedish manuscripts and is a collaboration between The National Library of Sweden, Uppsala University Library and Centre for Medieval Studies at Stockholm University. The catalogue and digitized manuscripts are made available through the data base manuscripta.se. (TTT can be read as ”Telae Totius Terrae” in Latin, which translates as ”World Wide Web”.)
I am also interested in freedom of the press in the eighteenth century. At present I am preparing a study on the immediate results of the Swedish freedom of the press ordinance from 1766, the world’s first government-sponsored declaration of freedom of the press. (The 1766 Ordinance can be read in English translation here.)
Articles (2)
- Nordin, J. & Laursen, J. C. (2020). Northern Declarations of Freedom of the Press : The Relative Importance of Philosophical Ideas and of Local Politics. Journal of the History of Ideas, 81, 217-237. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Nordin, J. (2019). Edward Gibbon : Historikern och böckerna. Biblis, 85, 2-25. Föreningen Biblis.
Book chapters (4)
- Nordin, J. (2020). En revolution i tryck : Tryckfrihet och tryckproduktion i Sverige 1766–1772 och däromkring. In Möller, D. (Eds.) Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund: Årsbok, Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund. Årsbok 2020 (pp. 87-112). Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund.
- Nordin, J. (2019). Spirit of the age : Erik Dahlbergh’s images of Sweden’s past. In Roling, B. & Schirg, B. (Eds.) Transformationen der Antike, Boreas rising : Antiquarianism and national narratives in 17th- and 18th-century Scandinavia (pp. 103-128), 53. De Gruyter.
- Nordin, J. (2018). Från censur till tryckfrihet; Frankrike i samlingarna; Utställningsverksamheten i KB. In Svensson, I. (Ed.) Acta Bibliothecæ regiæ Stockholmiensis, Kungliga biblioteket i ord och bild (pp. 109-333), 89. Kungliga biblioteket.
- Nordin, J. (2018). Kasvatettavista alamaisista valistuneiksi kansalaisiksi : Sensuuri ja painovapaus keskiajalta 1700-luvulle. In Örtenhed, K. & Wennberg, B. (Ed.) Sananvapaus 250 vuotta : Painovapaus ja julkisuus Ruotsissa ja Suomessa – elävä perintö vuodelta 1766 (pp. 25-57). Sveriges riksdag.
Conference contributions (1)
Reviews (1)
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (1)
Newspaper articles (4)
- Nordin, J. (2020). När Danmark släppte ordet alldeles för fritt. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Nordin, J. (2020). Så skapades bilden av svenskens rysliga vanor. Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Nordin, J. (2019). När yttrandefriheten blev heligare än Gud. Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Nordin, J. (2019). Stormaktshistoria för äventyrslystna. Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm. Svenska Dagbladet.
Miscellaneous (1)
Teaching
Professor, Division Manager, Manager of Research and Research Education
- Division of Book History
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail jonas.nordinkultur.luse
Phone +46 46 222 31 42
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30