Bøger udgivet af Aarhus University Press

Lenin once said "Trust is good, but control is better," but because the presence of social trust lowers transaction costs in everyday life, perhaps we should instead say "Control is good, but trust is cheaper".

The book introduces a largely unknown chapter in the history of Danish and Muscovite foreign policy and diplomacy by addressing the unprecedented treaties of alliance and cooperation concluded by the two powers in the final decades of the Middle Ages.

Exciting interdisciplinary scholarship on the theme of pilgrimage.

Discusses how other countries can emulate Scandinavia's successes.

A comprehensive presentation of the architecture of the theatre at Kalydon in Aitolia.

Most food found on supermarket shelves exists because consumer research has proven that the product will be in demand once it is made available by the food industry.This book strives to shed light on the aspects of our everyday sustenance that we normally don’t think about; above all the problematic consumer unawareness of foods’ nu­tritional value – and the technology behind industrially grown, raised and manu­factured fruits, vegetables, meat, milk, eggs, processed and fast food.Our ancestors created and secured modern food production through hard work; this occurred over a couple of million years in three leaps:- Meat Cooking (1,8 million years ago)- Agriculture Society (10.000 years ago)- Industrial Specialization (300 years ago)Now, we are at the frontier of a new era of future-food, driven by the need to feed nine billion people. But there are risks, as well as rewards, we must be conscious of as we move toward these new kinds of food.Among the key question we must consider: Is your body ready for these new sources of nutrition, or might you thrive even better with the foods you are already accus­tomed to?Reading this book will reward you with a new chance to make the right choices during shopping trips to your store or on the internet – in the food jungle.The book unfolds and presents for you a map of the conditions underlying our modern food supply, to help guide you safely in navigating the food jungle and increase your feeling of responsibility for your food intake. It will make you a better shopper and consumer; and empower you to leverage your newfound knowledge in helping drive the food industry toward manufacturing the healthiest foods possible for your body.

An exploration of a rich equestrian burial from the 10th century excavated near Skanderborg, Denmark.

Negative stories make the news. Drama and conflicts, victims and villains are our modern world. Or are they?This revised second edtion on constructive news challenges the traditional concepts and thinking of the news media. It shows the consequences media negativity has on the audience, public discourse, the press and democracy as a whole.The book also explores ways to change old news habits and provides hands-on guidelines on how to do so. Moreover, the book presents numerous examples from the author's ten-year tenure as executive director of news at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation where he led a successful paradigm shift in news production."Constructive News" is a wake-up call for a media world that struggles for a future, as well as an inspirational handbook on the next megatrend in journalism.

A critical examination of the use of the koine concept as a heuristic tool.

Danish director Lars von Trier has produced more than 20 films since his first appearance with The Elements of Crime in 1984. One of the most acknowledged – and most controversial – film directors of our time, Trier’s films often escape the representational production of meaning. In Lars von Trier’s Renewal of Film 1984-2014. Signal, Pixel, Diagram scholar Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen offers a comprehensive discussion of Lars von Trier’s collected works. Examining Trier’s experiments with narrative forms, genre, camera usage, light, and colour tones, she shows how Trier’s unique ethically involving style activates the viewer’s entire perception apparatus. In understanding this affective involvement, the author frames the discussion around concepts from Gilles Deleuze, Alois Riegl, Brian Massumi and others on the haptic image, the diagram, affect and the signaletic material.

The Christian Church and the People's Culture (1825-56) 12 essays and articles, including Grundtvig's reflections on his trial for libel and his promotion of freedom in the Church.

In the Danish West Indies, hundreds of enslaved men and women and a handful of Danish judges engaged in a broken, often distorted dialogue in court. Their dialogue was shaped by a shared concern with the ways slavery clashed with sexual norms and family life. Some enslaved men and women crafted respectable Christian self-portraits, which in time allowed victims of sexual abuse and rape to publicly narrate their experiences. Other slaves stressed African-Atlantic traditions when explaining their domestic conflicts. Yet these gripping stories did not influence the legal system. While the judges cunningly embraced slave testimony, they also reached guilty verdicts in most trials and punished with extreme brutality. Slaves spoke, but mostly to no avail. In Slave Stories, Gunvor Simonsen reconstructs the narratives crafted by slaves and traces the distortions instituted by Danish West Indian legal practice. In doing so, she draws us closer to the men and women who lived in bondage in the Danish West Indies (present-day US Virgin Islands) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Afstobningssamling (the Royal Cast Collection), Jan Zahle, presents a complete mapping and reevaluation of Thorvaldsens Museum's cast collection. With Zahle's research of the collection, the Roman market for casts and their importance for Thorvaldsen's art, a completely new base has been created for studying cast collections.

A team of historians, literary theorists, art historians, ethnographers and culture and communication scholars with profound insight into the histories, languages and cultures of the North Atlantic have collaborated on this study of the North Atlantic countries as an emerging new center in the North.

This major volume presents the proceedings from the 18th Viking Congress, held in Denmark in 2017.

Faaborg Museum and the Artists' Colony presents the history of Faaborg Museum, its architecture, collection and artists to international audiences for the first time.