New Publications
Robert J. Ligthelm, Buitenplaatsen aan de Schie, Pictures Publishers, 2025
The third volume in Robert J. Ligthelm series on Manor Houses/Country Houses in the Rotterdam area.
Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem, Serving Aristocracy, Oxford: Taylor & Francis, 2025.
Serving Aristocracy by Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on the aristocratic De la Gardie family and their sphere of manors and estates in seventeenth-century Sweden
Klaus Højbjerg, LØVENHOLM, Løvenholm Fonden, 2024
LØVENHOLM is a broad, richly illustrated monographic presentation written in Danish
Kristina Jõekalda, Linda Kaljundi and Ulrike Plath, eds. The Manor as a Phenomenon of Baltic Cultural History, Tallinn: TLÜ Kirjastus, 2025
In this edited volume, scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the manor as a phenomenon around which many of the major themes of the transnational history of the Baltic space unfold
Carolina Brown, Comfortable Everyday Life at the Swedish Eighteenth-Century Näs Manor, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024.
During the 18th century, comfortable everyday life becomes a new ideal. This book is about the traces of this change, its approach and consequences and its anchoring in the material and social life of the Swedish manor
Hanneke Ronnes, Conrad Gietman and Claartje Wesselink, Schitterende ballast, WBOOKS, 2024
Schitterende ballast (‘Beautiful ballast’) tells the story of Dutch country estates in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, a turbulent time of ruination, demolition and repurposing of country houses which had sometimes been owned by the same family for generations.
Other Publications
An overview of essential older publications for research in the field of manors and country houses is available via this link.
Archives
This section of the ENCOUNTER website contains the national archive of countries represented in the ENCOUNTER network.
Websites and Digital Collections
Svenska Herrgårdar
The goal of this site is to serve as a center for research on manors, estates and elites in Sweden.
The website currently contains four parts: 1) The Swedish Manors Database, 2) Current information about conferences, books, exhibitions, etc., and 3) the newsletter Herrgårdsnytt and 4) Links to manors and organizations responsible for manors.
https://www.svenskaherrgardar.se/
Danske Herregårde
Danskeherregaarde.dk is the only online platform featuring presentations of all of Denmark’s approximately 700 manors. On the site it is possible to explore the architectural history of individual estates, discover the cultural landscapes surrounding them, or delve into the stories of the diverse owners who shaped these manors over the centuries.
The site also includes comprehensive overviews of households and people associated with Danish manors, based on historical Danish censuses. The site also contains an extensive collection of articles that explore various themes and perspectives of Danish manor history.
Additionally, the site presents a series of maps that visualise information about Danish manors in the present day, as well as overviews from 1770, 1850, and 1900.
https://www.danskeherregaarde.dk/
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