Olof Svart’s Two Manors: Career and Ostentation in Early Sixteenth‑Century Sweden and Finland

This presentation of recent research by Tapio Salminen and Martin Rundkvist focuses on two manors, Kokemäki in Finland and Duvnäs in Sweden, through early sixteenth-century written sources and material remains. Both were, one after the other, in the custody of Olof Svart (obiit 1547), who was one of Gustav I’s earliest administrators. Through a combination of historical and archaeological methods, including map studies, a successful career in the service of Sweden’s first Early Modern king is traced and placed in the cultural landscape.