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- Linnarsson, Magnus, et al.
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Bullan från Lomma – ett påvligt sigill på villovägar
- 2010
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Ingår i: Fornvännen. - 1404-9430 .- 0015-7813. ; :1, s. 20-20
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A papal lead seal, a so called bull, from the pontificate of Eugene III (1145–53) has been found in Scania, southern Sweden. The seal is the oldest known material evidence of contacts between Scandinavia and the Holy See. In this paper the papal seal is presented and discussed in relation to the historical context of the find spot in Lomma, a small community 10 kilometers north of Malmö. The place is thought to have been of some importance during the 11th and 12th centuries. The authors present a hypothesis about the background of the bull and how it ended up in Lomma.
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- Olsson, Magnus, 1977-, et al.
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Postal Round Trip to Amsterdam : The private entrepreneurship within the Swedish postal organization in 1716
- 2009
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Ingår i: Ajalooline Ajakiri – The Estonian Historical Journal. - 1406-3859. ; 129/130:3/4, s. 493-507
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is a case study of the organization of the Swedish postal route to Europe in 1716. In the winter of 1715, the Swedish Baltic Empire lay in ruins and when the Swedish King Charles XII landed in Ystad, in the south of Sweden, he had many problems to deal with. One of the most urgent ones was to establish a postal route to the rest of Europe. During the war the traditional Swedish postal route via Denmark was stopped by the Danes, and it was difficult for the Swedish mail to reach the European continent. The king and the state administration therefore run the risk of informational isolation.In 1716, the correspondence was sent via a postal route by sea between Gothenburg (Göteborg), on the Swedish west coast, and Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. The administration of the postal traffic was given to a private consortium of eight merchants. With privilege from the king, they were given full responsibility for the single postal route from Sweden to the rest of the world in 1716.This article shows that it is plausible to view the entrepreneurial postal route in 1716 as an illustration of the change in the Swedish economic and organizational policy in the latter part of Charles XII’s reign. From the 1680s, the Swedish economic policy had been designed to concentrate resources in the hands of the Crown. Charles XI built up a state bureaucracy that controlled the means of the state. This resulted in a system where the Crown supervised and organized most of the resources in the kingdom. Following the wars in the early 1700s, this system broke down and the Swedish leadership sought to get hold of more money with the help of private merchants. The use of private capital for financing state affairs was common in Sweden, and other European states, in the first half of the 1600s. The method of using private entrepreneurs for the organization of the postal route, is therefore an example of the reorientation of economic thinking in the Swedish state administration. This resulted in a policy that, in a more direct way, tried to engage private merchants and entrepreneurs in the financing of state affairs. The article shows how this policy, in one way, was a return to an older form of financing state affairs.
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- Linnarsson, Magnus
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Postgång på växlande villkor : det svenska postväsendets organisation under stormaktstiden
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation investigates the Swedish postal service, focusing on its organization from approximately 1600 to 1720. The purpose of the study is to explain why the Swedish state, at different points of time, chose one form of postal organization over another. The principle question of the dissertation has been: How was the Swedish postal service organized during the 1600s, what were the forms of organization chosen, and why did the state shift between these? In a broader perspective, the dissertation has investigated how the answers to these questions affect our perception of how the Swedish state organized its agencies in the seventeenth century. The analysis relies on a theoretical model inspired by economist Oliver E. Williamson’s transaction cost theory, modified to function for a study of seventeenth-century Swedish society. The concepts “market” and “hierarchy” is central to this theory. They denote the ways in which enterprises and agencies can be organized. How choices can be made between the two alternatives has been explained by the aid of a transaction cost analysis. The concept of market has been reformulated in the dissertation, and instead of market, the term “contract” has been used. This term denotes an organization where the crown handed over the leadership of the postal organization to some private individual. The analysis focuses on the shifts between the state’s centralized control of the postal organization, labeled hierarchy, and the above-mentioned form of contract. The principle question is why these shifts in the organization of the postal service took place, and what changes these shifts entailed. The investigation is based on a wide variety of sources, complementing material from the central administration — e.g. minutes, ordinances and fiscal material — with, for example, letters written by persons who were central actors in the Swedish state. The dissertation shows that the Swedish postal service during the 1600s was organized according to both contractual and hierarchical principles. During the period under research, the postal service alternated between being incorporated into the government administration and being contracted out to some private individual. The state occasionally relinquished control over the postal service, leaving it to entrepreneurs to handle. At other times, the state centralized the postal service’s administration, putting it under direct government control. The investigation has problematised a formerly standard picture of the Swedish postal service. Hereafter, the Swedish postal service must be regarded as an organization in which both models coexisted. The Swedish state tried both contract-oriented and hierarchical organizations during the 1600s; indeed the organization oscillated between these two poles.
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- Linnarsson, Magnus
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Kampen mot missbruket av fribrev
- 2007
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Ingår i: Postryttaren - Årsbok för postmuseum. - 0586-6758. ; 57:2007, s. 71-86
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Populärvetenskaplig artikel om missbruket av fribrevsrätter inom den svenska statsförvaltningen 1643-1719.
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- Linnarsson, Magnus
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Post med förhinder mellan Sverige och Danmark
- 2009
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Ingår i: Postryttaren - Årsbok för postmuseum. - 0586-6758. ; 59, s. 69-82
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Populärhistorisk artikel om problem med de svenska postförbindelserna till Europa under 1600-talet.
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- Linnarsson, Magnus
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Posten knöt ihop stormakten
- 2007
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Ingår i: Populär Historia. - 1102-0822. ; 11, s. 36-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Populärvetenskaplig artikel om postväsendet i Sverige under 1600-talet.
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