Ocean Bound Woman is a first-hand narrative of circumnavigating the globe in the 1880s. Based on family documents stored in a seaman's chest, this book provides a scholarly account of the history of the Swedish sailing-ship Atlantic (1876–1911) and her crew. Part of the book is based upon a diary written by a Scandinavian woman, which stands as the uniting text for the years 1885–1887, connecting the reader to all events in the chronicle. Other sources consist of manuscripts, documents and accounts collected from family descendants along with oral traditions and personal memories — all hitherto unpublished. This is the life story of two motherless sisters who took on a ship in their teens: a book about life on the oceans and meeting with people of many different nations.

Konfronterad med världens ondska och lidande i outhärdliga och outsägliga mått, och en vittrad Jesus på korset ristad och framskrapad i stort format på den hårda skrovliga väggen av en fånge i en av Auschwitz dödsceller, tänkte jag att Kristi lidande inte minst var representativt för människors lott! För mig var lidandet och tron i denna stund helt utan mening och enbart fasa! Under Yom HaShoah, Minnesdagen för den obeskrivliga och obegripliga Förintelsen, tänkte jag som alla andra, att detta inte får hända igen. Men hur begripa det som hände?

Impressions from the Schibbolet project written by one of the moderators. 

On Interpretating the Decalogue

The Moment Is Now: Carl Bernhard Wadström’s Revolutionary Voice on Human Trafficking and the Abolition of the African Slave Trade represents the efforts made by a wide variety of international scholars to give voice to the spirit of Swedish–British humanitarian cooperation that abolitionist and author Carl Bernhard Wadström (1746–99) started in London in the 1780s and ’90s. Particularly focusing on Wadström’s often-overlooked life, work, and impact, this book demonstrates how the historical accounts and arguments related to the slavery issue can inform our modern understanding of human trafficking, racism, and systemic violence.

The Moment Is Now includes the proceedings of The International Carl Bernhard Wadström Conference on Human Rights and the Abolition of Slavery, which was held in London on June 2–4, 2015. Accessing source materials in different languages that were previously scattered throughout English, French, and Swedish archives, the scholars involved have been able to successfully investigate Wadström’s work and influence in such diverse areas as economics, science, abolitionism, travel writing, African colonial history, Swedenborgianism, philanthropy, utopianism, and human rights.

As its title makes clear, this book not only offers a glimpse into a significant moment in history but also serves as a call to action and a primer to be used in the here and now—a guide from which we can learn how to deal with those horrific forms of human oppression that Wadström and others like him sought to bring to an end.

Homage to two great Italian women of the early twentieth century, the actress and the author, whose life stories and exceptional creative powers combined in the making of the 1916 silent film Cenere, or “Ashes”. 

Emanuel Swedenborg (född i Stockholm 1688, död i London 1772) var en svensk vetenskapsman, filosof och teosof i inre exil vars skrifter var förbjudna av censuren och satta på Index. Nobelpristagare från skilda länder har påmint oss om att hans verk tillhör världslitteraturen. Hans manuskript har av UNESCO utnämnts till Världsminne. I denna bok får vi följa hans spår.

Acta volume of the international conference held at Accademia di Danimarca in Rome, January 21-22, 2013. The papers focus on fiction from the High Middle Ages to the Renaissance, on theories of fiction, and analyses of medieval texts.