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Göran Tagesson is a Researcher at the Department of History, Uppsala University, Sweden, specializing in early modern urban history with a focus on Swedish towns. His work integrates architectural analysis, archaeological evidence, and historical records to examine household structures, poverty, social marginality, and urban development.
Tagesson's research centers on the material culture of urban environments, particularly in Linköping and Uppsala. He investigates how physical spaces reflected social hierarchies, gender dynamics, and religious institutions during the 17th-18th centuries. His methodology combines micro-historical case studies with interdisciplinary approaches, analyzing buildings, cemeteries, and folk traditions to reconstruct lived experiences of marginalized groups including widows and the urban poor. Key interests include the adaptive reuse of historical structures, cultural memory embedded in landscapes, and the intersection of religious authority with domestic architecture.
His recent publications (2022-2025) reveal consistent thematic focus on early modern Swedish urbanism, with dominant trends in collaborative building-historical investigations (primarily with Dag Lindström) and detailed analyses of specific properties. The output demonstrates a strong applied dimension through technical reports for cultural heritage management, alongside scholarly book chapters exploring household organization, poverty, and religious architecture. Geographically concentrated in Östergötland, his work bridges archaeological fieldwork with archival research, emphasizing how physical structures illuminate social dynamics and historical change in Nordic urban contexts.
