Urbana system och riksbildning i Skandinavien. En studie av
Lödöses uppgång och fall ca 1050 – 1646 ABSTRACT Harlitz, E.
2010. Urbana system och riksbildning i Skandinavien: en studie
av Lödöses uppgång och fall ca 1050–1646. [Urban Systems and
State Formation in Scandinavia: A Study of the Rise and Fall of
the Town of Lödöse, c. 1050–1646] 172 pages. Avhandling från
Institutionen för historiska studier, Göteborgs universitet.
Written in Swedish with an English summary. ISBN 978 91 628 8055
2 The investigation and analysis of Lödöse’s political functions
over a period of six hundred years has made it possible to
follow and contextualize a town’s life cycle and development.
Lödöse has been used as a case study which illuminates how and
why a town emerged, developed and disappeared in medieval and
early modern Scandinavia, in relation to the processes of state
formation and urbanization. The theory applied is the Dynamic
Urban Systems Theory. The position of a town within this theory
is determined by the functi