Person

Senior Lecturer
- History
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail svante.norrhemhist.luse
Phone +46 46 222 41 92
Room LUX:A311
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I began my career at Umeå University where I recieved my doctoral degree in 1994. Since then I have had a research focus on early modern women´s and gender history, LGBT-history, and lately, the history of diplomacy. In 2009 I became professor of history at Umeå University. 2014 I moved to Lund University and became a senior lecturer (associate professor) at the Department of History. At present I study servants in 17th century aristocratic households.
My teaching has been closely related to my research. I have mainly taught early modern world history, LGBT-history and courses in methodology and theory.
As a director of studies I have been in charge of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Subsidies and the French-Swedish relations 1631-1795: motifs and impact (research leader)
- Gender, Politics and Materiality in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 (research leader)
- Gendered Interpretations at the Victoria&Albert Museum and the Vasa Museum (research leader)
- Life Worlds and Knowledge Circulation, 1450-1850
- Marrying Cultures. Queens Consort and European identities, 1500-1800
- Subsidies in decline: Sweden and France 1740-1790 (research leader)
- Livsvärldar och kunskapscirkulation 1450-1850 (research leader)
Books (3)
- Norrhem, S. (2019). Mercenary Swedes : French Subsidies to Sweden, 1631-1796. Nordic Academic Press.
- Norrhem, S. (2019). Subsidier : Svenska krig och franska pengar 1631-1796. Nordic Academic Press.
- Norrhem, S., Rydström, J. & Markusson Winkvist, H. (2015). Undantagsmänniskor : en svensk HBTQ-historia med utblickar i världen. Studentlitteratur AB.
Editorships (3)
- Norrhem, S. & Thomson, E. (2020). (Eds.) Subsidies, Diplomacy and State Formation in Europe, 1494–1789 : Economies of Allegiance. Lund University Press.
- Norrhem, S. & Bepler, J. (2018). (Eds.) Telling Objects : Contextualizing the role of the consort in early modern Europe. Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, 153. Harrassowitz.
- Daybell, J. & Norrhem, S. (2016). (Eds.) Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800. Routledge.
Articles (3)
- Norrhem, S., Daybell, J., Broomhall, S., van Gent, J. & Akkerman, N. (accepted/in press). Gender and Materiality in Early Modern English Gloves. Sixteenth Century Journal. Kirksville, Mo.: The Sixteenth Century Journal.
- Daybell, J., Heyam, K., Norrhem, S. & Severinsson, E. (2020). Gendering Objects at the V&A and Vasa Museums. Museum International, 72, 106-117. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Norrhem, S. (2019). Why Early Modern Scholarship Matters. Sixteenth Century Journal, 50. Kirksville, Mo.: The Sixteenth Century Journal.
Book chapters (11)
- Norrhem, S. (2020). The uses of French subsidies in Sweden, 1632-1729. In Norrhem, S. & Thomson, E. (Eds.) Economies of allegiance : Subsidies, diplomacy and state formation in Europe, 1494-1789. Lund University Press.
- Norrhem, S. & Thomson, E. (2020). Introduction. In Norrhem, S. & Thomson, E. (Eds.) Economies of allegiance : Subsidies, diplomacy and state formation in Europe, 1494-1789. Lund University Press.
- Norrhem, S. & Bepler, J. (2018). Introduction. In Bepler, J. & Norrhem, S. (Eds.) Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, Telling Objects : Contextualizing the role of the consort in early modern Europe (pp. 9-16), 153. Harrassowitz.
- Norrhem, S. (2017). Ideological friction and political crisis : Queen Luise Ulrike of Sweden and a failed coup d’état. In Bues, A. (Ed.) Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau, Frictions and Failures : Cultural Encounters in Crisis (pp. 67-77), 34. Harrassowitz.
- Norrhem, S. & Dermineur, E. (2017). Luise Ulrike of Prussia, Queen of Sweden, and the Search for Political Space. In Watanabe-O'Kelly, H. & Morton, A. (Eds.) Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800. Routledge.
- Daybell, J. & Norrhem, S. (2016). Introduction : rethinking gender and political culture. In Daybell, J. & Norrhem, S. (Eds.) Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800 (pp. 3-25). Routledge.
- Daybell, J. & Norrhem, S. (2016). Introduction : Rethinking gender and political culture in early modern Europe. Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800, 3-24. Routledge.
- Lindström, P. & Norrhem, S. (2016). Diplomats and kin networks : diplomatic strategy and gender in Sweden, 1648-1740. In Norrhem, S. & Daybell, J. (Eds.) Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800 (pp. 68-86). Routledge.
- Norrhem, S. (2014). Im Dienste der Dynastie : Frauen als Mittlerinnen bei Heiratsverhandlungen im Schweden der 1690er-Jahre. In Bastian, C., Dade, E. K., von Thiessen, H. & Windler, C. (Eds.) Geschlechterrollen in den Auβenbeziehungen vom Spätmittelalter bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (pp. 87-102). Böhlau.
- Norrhem, S. (2014). Kvinna i stormaktstidens Sverige. In von Schwerin, A. (Ed.) Den dolda kvinnomakten. 500 år på Skarhults slott. Bokförlaget Atlantis.
- Norrhem, S. (2014). Reformationens hav. In Sjöberg, M. (Eds.) En samtidig världshistoria (pp. 611-635). Studentlitteratur AB.
Prefaces (1)
Encyclopaedia entries (5)
- Norrhem, S. (2018). Christina Piper. Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon. Göteborgs universitet.
- Norrhem, S. (2018). Ebba Brahe. Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon. Göteborgs universitet.
- Norrhem, S. (2018). Margareta Brahe. Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon. Göteborgs universitet.
- Norrhem, S. (2018). Margareta Slots (Margareta Cabiljau). Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon. Göteborgs universitet.
- Norrhem, S. (2018). Sigrid Brahe. Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon. Göteborgs universitet.
Reviews (5)
- Norrhem, S. (2019). Courage and Grief: Women and Sweden’s Thirty Years’ War. Mary Elizabeth Ailes. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. ix + 225 pp. $55. ISBN 978-1-4962-0086-0. Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 13, 174-177.
- Norrhem, S. (2019). Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden: Travel, Migration and Material Transformations, 1500–1800, ed. Magdalena Naum and Fredrik Ekengren. English Historical Review, 134, 1309-1310. Oxford University Press.
- Norrhem, S. (2016). Recension av: En makalös historia. Magnus Gabriel De la Gardies uppgång och fall. RIG Kulturhistorisk Tidskrift, 50-52. Föreningen för svensk kulturhistoria.
- Norrhem, S. (2015). Recension av: Lena Rangström, Dödens Teater. Kungliga svenska begravningar genom fem århundraden. RIG Kulturhistorisk Tidskrift, 98. Föreningen för svensk kulturhistoria.
- Norrhem, S. (2014). Review of book; Protestant Cosmopolitanism and Diplomatic Culture. Brandenburg-Swedish Relations in the Seventeenth Century (The Northern World 59). Journal of Northern Studies, 7, 134-135. Umeå University & the Royal Skyttean Society.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (1)
Miscellaneous (1)
Teaching
Other tasks and qualifications
- Head of division (history) at the department of history, Lund university
- Series editor "Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World" which is published by Amsterdam University Press (together with James Daybell, Plymouth University, Merry Wiesner Hanks, University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) and Victoria Burke, University of Ottawa). http://en.aup.nl/series/gendering-the-late-medieval-and-early-modern-world
- Member of advisory board for the ERC-project "The European Fiscal-Military system 1530-1870" led by prof Peter Wilson (University of Oxford). https://fiscalmilitary.history.ox.ac.uk/home
- Editor for Scandia https://journals.lub.lu.se/scandia

Senior Lecturer
- History
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail svante.norrhemhist.luse
Phone +46 46 222 41 92
Room LUX:A311
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30