A Matter of Honour : Conflicts Between Royal Servants in Danish-Norwegian Colonial Greenland 1728-1731

• Main Author: Andersen, Emil
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Historiska institutionen 2022
• Subjects: colonial history; social conflict; history of violence; legal history; honour; absolutism; Greenland; Denmark-Norway; Kolonihistorie; social konflikt; voldens historie; retshistorie; ære; enevælde; Grønland; Danmark-Norge; History; Historia; Arctic; Handle The; Norway
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-475308

This thesis is a micro-historical study of the role of honour in interpersonal conflicts in the Danish-Norwegian crown colony of Greenland between 1728 and 1731. In the two settlements that constituted the colony, the highest-ranking officials, including the governor, were all oath-sworn royal serva...