Centre for Medieval Studies Stockholm University Report

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1 Centre for Medieval Studies Stockholm University Report Updated Compiled by Inka Moilanen, Department of History, Stockholm University

2 The Centre for Medieval Studies Medieval Research: Past, Present, and Future Page 2 of 105 Contents The Centre for Medieval Studies... 4 Medieval Research: Past, Present, and Future... 4 Board... 5 Medeltidsrådet... 6 Current researchers... 7 Senior researchers and areas of study... 7 Doctoral students Activities Medieval Seminar (Medeltidsseminariet) Seminar for the Study of Old Texts (Äldretextseminariet) Conferences, workshops and excursions Research projects Research programs Smaller research projects Doctoral theses Forthcoming in Teaching Master program in medieval studies Financing Publications Publication statistics Publication types Publication languages

3 The Centre for Medieval Studies Medieval Research: Past, Present, and Future Page 3 of 105 International collaboration Publication series and editorial boards Evaluation and advisory boards Societies and recurring conferences International recruitment International trainees at the National Archives of Sweden Other international networks Contact information Web pages Address Other information

4 The Centre for Medieval Studies Medieval Research: Past, Present, and Future Page 4 of 105 The Centre for Medieval Studies The Centre for Medieval Studies at Stockholm University was established 1 July The Centre encourages inter- and cross-disciplinary research and supports the integration of a range of perspectives, methods and theories across several academic disciplines. Research is focused mainly on medieval Europe, from late Antiquity to the early Renaissance, but other cultural regions are also considered within the given time framework. The Centre for Medieval Studies functions as an umbrella organization for a variety of disciplines, including Archaeology, Art History, Economic History, History, History of Religions, Human Geography, Literature, Music, Numismatics, Philosophy, Physical Geography, and Quaternary Geology; as well as a range of language departments, representing French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, and Scandinavian Languages. Events organised by the Centre include seminars, workshops, conferences and excursions led by researchers from Scandinavia and other countries; activities are planned and developed by individual researchers as well as by groups of researchers working in cooperation, and new events are constantly under development. The Centre for Medieval Studies cooperates with many institutions both within and outside of Sweden to plan and implement new research, and to provide courses with medieval themes. The Centre provides a 120-ECTS Master program in medieval studies. Medieval Research: Past, Present, and Future Interdisciplinary research in the field of Medieval Studies at Stockholm University began in the 1960s, when seminars were held with participants from the fields of Archaeology, History, Art History, and Human Geography. In the beginning of the 1970s they were accompanied by representatives from language departments, primarily from Scandinavian languages and Latin. At this early stage, close cooperation was also established with different scholarly institutions in Stockholm: an extensive foundation of knowledge and competence has been and continues to be the National Archives of Sweden (Riksarkivet); the National Heritage Board (Riksantikvarieämbetet); the National Library of Sweden (Kungliga biblioteket); and the Swedish National Land Survey (Lantmäteriet). Today the Centre also works together with the National Maritime Museums (Statens maritima museer), the National Historical Museums (Statens historiska museer), and the Stockholm County Museum (Stockholms läns museum). Today, advanced research takes place in several dozen subjects across Stockholm s academic institutions. There are about 15 PhD students and more than 40 postdoctoral and senior researchers and teachers within the field of medieval studies. The variety of subjects is very broad. Projects may address vocabulary in medieval languages; ideologies and political theories; the use of images and artefacts; the spoken language in fifteenth-century Stockholm; the analysis of archaeological artefacts and sites; perspectives on literary fiction; liturgical poetry; translations between different languages; theories about the nature of knowledge; ideological messages in chronicles; the relationship between the oral and written cultures; monastic discipline; jokes about the church; commissioners of art; the function of buildings; the compilation of manuscripts; as well as the resources of cultural landscapes and their use.

5 The Centre for Medieval Studies Board Page 5 of 105 Board At the end of 2016 the Centre for Medieval Studies had the following board: Director Professor Kurt Villads Jensen (Department of History) Secretary Dr. Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist (Department of History, Bolin Centre for Climate Research) Board members Chairman: Professor Anders Andrén (Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies) Professor Anders Cullhed (The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Department of Culture and Aesthetics) Professor Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre (Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages, Finnish, Dutch and German) Associate professor Erika Kihlman (Department of Romance Studies and Classics) Associate professor Fredrik Svanberg (The Swedish History Museum) Dr. Mia Åkestam (Department of Culture and Aesthetics) Doctoral student Gwendolyne Knight Keimpema (Department of History) Board meetings The board held 29 meetings between 1 August 2008 and 31 December 2016 on the following dates. The detailed protocols of all meetings are available (in Swedish) at

6 The Centre for Medieval Studies Medeltidsrådet Page 6 of 105 Medeltidsrådet Since 1996, there has been an Advisory Board for Medieval Seminar that was renamed Medeltidsrådet (Medieval Council) when the Centre for Medieval Studies was established in It still has the responsibility to guide the focus of the program of Medieval Seminar. The council consists of representatives of those disciplines at Stockholm University in which medieval-related research is currently being carried out. It also includes representatives of the agencies and museums in Stockholm that are engaged in medieval-related activities. At the end of 2016 the Medeltidsrådet had the following composition: Rapporteur: Professor Kurt Villads Jensen (Department of History) Secretary: Dr. Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist (Department of History, Bolin Centre for Climate Research) Members: Professor Anders Andrén (Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies) Professor Anders Bengtsson (Department of Romance Studies and Classics) Professor Anders Cullhed (Department of Culture and Aesthetics) Professor Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre (Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages, Finnish, Dutch and German) Professor Olof Sundqvist (Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies) Associate professor Björn Gunnarson (Department of Physical Geography) Associate professor Bo Franzén (Department of Economic History) Associate professor Claes Gejrot (the National Archives of Sweden) Associate professor Erika Kihlman (Department of Romance Studies and Classics) Associate professor Gabriela Bjarne Larsson (Department of History) Associate professor Magnus Källström (Swedish National Heritage Board) Antiquarian, Dr. Elisabeth Regner (Swedish History Museum) Dr. Johan Berg (Department of Human Geography) Dr. Jonatan Pettersson (Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism) Dr. Mia Åkestam (Department of Culture and Aesthetics) Doctoral student Gwendolyne Knight Keimpema (Department of History)

7 Current researchers Senior researchers and areas of study Page 7 of 105 Current researchers Senior researchers and areas of study There are currently 46 senior researchers and teachers in different departments at Stockholm University and academic institutions in Stockholm affiliated with the Centre for Medieval studies. Director, Professor Kurt Villads Jensen (Department of History) Crusades and military history, cultural encounters in the Middle Ages, church history and theology, comparisons of Nordic and Iberian history, Baltic crusades, conversion and sacralisation of landscapes, saints at war, emotions and war. Director ( ), Professor emeritus Olle Ferm (Department of History) Normativity, power, ideologies, resources, criticism of the church, academic knowledge and lay imagination, the formation of parish churches and their sponsors, political networks, late medieval political culture. Chairman of the board (2013 ), Professor Anders Andrén (Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies) Viking age and medieval archaeology, Old Norse religion and mythology, Jews in the Middle Ages, Danish medieval towns. Professor Anders Bengtsson (Department of Romance Studies and Classics) Medieval French language, medieval French literature. Professor Anders Cullhed (Department of Culture and Aesthetics) Medieval literature, Dante, Italian renaissance. Professor Denis Searby (Department of Romance Studies and Classics) Greece, biblical texts, church history. Professor Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre (Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages, Finnish, Dutch and German) Medieval and early modern German, Reformation, early travel literature. Professor Eva Odelman (Department of Romance Studies and Classics) Medieval Latin, Latin text editions. Professor emerita Gunilla Iversen (Department of Romance Studies and Classics) Medieval Latin, Latin text editions. Professor emeritus Göran Dahlbäck (Department of History) Medieval Sweden, medieval Stockholm, church properties. Professor emerita Inger Larsson (Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism) Old Swedish, Old Norse, medieval plant names, medieval Scandinavian laws. Professor emeritus Jan Svanberg (Department of Culture and Aesthetics) Medieval art, church architecture, art history.

8 Current researchers Senior researchers and areas of study Page 8 of 105 Professor Kenneth Jonsson (Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies) Numismatics, Viking age coins, medieval coins, economic history. Associate professor Andreas Nordberg (Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies) Old Norse religion. Associate professor Ann-Cathrine Bonnier (Department of Culture and Aesthetics) Medieval Swedish churches, medieval art history, church architecture. Associate professor Bo Franzén (Department of Economic History) Medieval economy, quantitative medieval studies, trade and commerce. Associate professor Brian Møller Jensen (Department of Romance Studies and Classics) Classical, medieval and new Latin, rhetoric, elegy, liturgical and hagiographic texts. Associate professor Claes Gejrot (the National Archives of Sweden) Medieval Swedish texts, Old Swedish, Medieval Latin, edition principles. Associate professor Dag Retsö (Department of Economic History) Travelling in late medieval times, medieval economic history, climate history. Associate professor Erika Kihlman (Department of Romance Studies and Classics) Medieval Latin, Latin text editions. Associate professor Gabriela Bjarne Larsson (Department of History) Swedish history between , the late Middle Ages, women, peasants, nobility, marital status, birth right, gifts, monetization. Associate professor Hossein Sheiban (Department of History) Religious critique, Persian literature, Orientalism, the intellectual legacy of the Persian-Islamic culture, Islam. Associate professor Ingmar Jansson (Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies) Viking age and medieval archaeology, Russia, Novgorod, Viking trade networks to the East. Associate professor Jan Risberg (Department of Physical Geography) Pollen analysis, sediment core analysis methods, sea level rise, land use changes. Associate professor Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt (National Heritage Board) 3D scanning, rune stones, Viking Age Scandinavia. Associate professor Magnus Källström Rune stones, Viking Age language, cultural heritage studies. Associate professor Nanouschka Myrberg Burström (Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies) Numismatics, Viking age coins, medieval coins, medieval Gotland, medieval archaeology. Associate professor Per Förnegård (Department of Romance Studies and Classics) Medieval French philology, linguistics and cultural history.

9 Current researchers Senior researchers and areas of study Page 9 of 105 Associate professor Roger Andersson (Department of History) Sermon studies, Old Swedish, Late Middle Ages, manuscripts, St Birgitta. Associate professor Sara Risberg (the National Archives of Sweden) Medieval Latin, Latin text editions. Dr. Barbara Crostini (Department of Romance Studies and Classics) Middle-Byzantine monasticism, preaching and exegesis, interaction between text and image on the manuscript page, intercultural exchanges between Jews, Muslims and Christians. Dr. Bo Eriksson (Department of History) Monsters, ideology, gender, masculinity. Dr. Cecilia Ljung (Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies) Viking age and medieval archaeology, early medieval burial monuments, conversation to Christianity in Sweden, social structure in the early medieval times. Dr. Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist (Department of History, Bolin Centre for Climate Research) Political history, legal history, medieval legislation, climate history, agrarian history. Dr. Henrik Klackenberg (the National Archives of Sweden) Medieval stamps, heraldry. Dr. Ingela Hedström (the National Archives of Sweden) Manuscript production in Vadstena, literacy of women in the Middle Ages. Dr. Inka Moilanen (Department of History) Social-religious history, communication, homiletic manuscripts, sermons, early medieval period, Anglo-Saxon England, networks, semantic change. Dr. Johan Berg (Department of Human Geography) Medieval estates, medieval agriculture, land use changes, spatial analysis, historical maps, early urbanisation. Dr. Johnny Karlsson (Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies) Late Viking Age and medieval uses of animals as raw material, material culture, medieval archaeology, urban archaeology, osteology. Dr. Jonatan Pettersson (Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism) Old Norse, Icelandic sagas, medieval translations. Dr. Margaretha Nordquist (Department of History) Historiography, memory and cultural continuity, identity formation in medieval society. Dr. Maria Husabø Oen (Department of Culture and Aesthetics) Medieval visual culture, art history, iconography, St. Birgitta, St. Catherine of Siena, pilgrimage and the Holy Land. Dr. Mia Åkestam (Department of Culture and Aesthetics) Medieval art history, St. Birgitta, church art. Dr. Olof Holm (Riksdagsbiblioteket)

10 Current researchers Doctoral students Page 10 of 105 Viking age and medieval archaeology, medieval Sami culture, trade networks, Jämtland, Härjedalen, medieval Norway, medieval northern Sweden. Dr. Robert Andrews (Department of History) Medieval translations, medieval universities, reception of classical texts in the Middle Ages, medieval philosophy. Dr. Sofia Lodén (Department of Romance Studies and Classics) Medieval French literature, chivalry, courtly culture. Doctoral students There are currently 14 doctoral students affiliated with medieval studies. All dissertation topics can be found under Research projects: Doctoral theses (p. 37). Anna Andréasson (Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies) Antonia Vafiadou (Aristotle s University in Thessaloniki) Eva-Marie Letzter (Department of History) Florent Audy (Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies) Frédéric Elfver (Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies) Gwendolyne Knight Keimpema (Department of History) Kim Bergqvist (Department of History) Linda Qviström (Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies) Linn Eikje Ramberg (Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies) Mari Eyice (Department of History) Martin Skoog (Department of History) Per Gunnar Sidén (Department of History) Theresia Pettersson (Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism) Tommy Kuusela (Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies)

11 Activities Medieval Seminar (Medeltidsseminariet) Page 11 of 105 Activities The most visible activities of the Centre for Medieval Studies are the Medieval Seminar (Medeltidsseminariet), the Seminar for the Study of Old Texts (Äldretextseminariet), and the various conferences, workshops and excursions the Centre has arranged or has contributed to from 2008 to Medieval Seminar (Medeltidsseminariet) The Centre for Medieval Studies organises the interdisciplinary Medieval Seminar (Medeltidsseminariet) on a regular basis. It offers a platform for collaboration between different disciplines and gives an opportunity to present new publications, new projects, and work-inprogress papers. The speakers represent the different disciplines of medieval studies within the Centre. The medieval seminar also hosts lectures and seminars in which international visiting scholars present and discuss their research. The Medieval Seminars are mainly funded by the Faculty of Humanities. Seminars are open to the public, both academic and non-academic. Depending on the topic of the day, attendants consist of members of different departments of humanities from Stockholm University, external research institutes, and sometimes from Uppsala University. Seminars attract different kinds of audiences: researchers, doctoral students, master students and general public. The seminars are attended on average by people. From 1 July 2008 until 31 December 2016 CMS hosted 113 seminars The Myths of St. Stephen of Hungary Nora Berend (University of Cambridge) Labour and Lovesickness in Medieval Mysticism Total 113 Virginia Langum (Umeå universitet & Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala) Was Muhammad the Antichrist? A Late Medieval Sensation and its Origins Anthony Lappin (Maynooth University) Stockholms fastighetspriser Bo Franzén, Johan Söderberg (Stockholm University) Förändringar av träbyggnadsteknik och kyrkorum under medeltiden Gunnar Almevik (University of Gothenburg) Crusading Seen from the Muslim Perspective

12 Activities Medieval Seminar (Medeltidsseminariet) Page 12 of 105 Paul Cobb (University of Pennsylvania) Debasement and Trade in the Middle Ages Peter Spufford (University of Cambridge) Utgrävningarna på Slussen Kenneth Svensson (Medeltidsmuseet) Staging the Death of Saints and Sinners on Early Lutheran Stage: Ein Dialogus oder Gespreche von dem absterben Friderici Staphyli (1565) Core Dietl (Universität Giessen) Knud den Store 1000 år senare. Harald Hårdråde 950 år senare Jón Viðar Sigurðsson (University of Oslo) Visualizing the Past in the Grandes chroniques de France Anne D. Hedeman (University of Kansas) Senmedeltidens rimkrönikor maktkamp och ideologi Margaretha Nordquist (Stockholm University) Magister Matthias (ca ) Mats Malm (University of Gothenburg), Håkan Ulfgård (Linköping University) Knightly Orders on the Iberian Peninsula Paula Pinto (University of Porto) The Viking Phenomenon: a ten-year research programme Neil Price (Uppsala University) Översättningsverksamhet och aristokratisk ideologi i det medeltida Norden Massimiliano Bampi (Università Ca Foscari, Venice) Byzantine Northern Lights: on interdisciplinary approaches to Byzantine studies, in Sweden and Denmark Jonas Johnsen Helgason Christensen, Barbara Crostini, Jonas Thungren Lindbärg, Helena Bodin, Anne Karahan, Kurt Villads Jensen The Medieval Nordic Legal Dictionary: One Year In Jeff Love (Stockholm University) Assumptions of Medieval Oral Poetics in the Diocese of Åbo 16th-Century Reformers, Folk Beliefs and New Forms of Singing Kati Kallio, Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen (Finnish Literature Society) Judar och muslimer i det medeltida Skandinavien och Baltikum Cordelia Heß (University of Gothenburg), Jonathan Adams (Uppsala University)

13 Activities Medieval Seminar (Medeltidsseminariet) Page 13 of Analyser av gammalt DNA: möjligheter och begränsningar i senvikingatida arkeologiska kontexter Anna Kjellström (Stockholm University) Texter till tiden. Ett nytt forskningsprojekt om medeltidstexter och om att göra samlingar tillgängliga för forskningen Jonas Nordin (National Library), Roger Andersson (Stockholm University) Reliker och undersökningar av döda kungar Erik av Sverige och Knud av Danmark Jussi-Pekka Taavitsainen (Turku University), Christian Lovén (National Archives), Kurt Villads Jensen (Stockholm University) Den nordatlantiska fiskerevolutionen Poul Holm (Trinity College, Dublin) Laurentius av Vaksala och hans Summula Stina Fallberg Sundmark (Uppsala University) Libraries, Manuscripts and Book Culture in Vadstena Abbey Ville Walta (University of Helsinki) Bibel och Helgon i Östersjökorstågen auktoritet, materialitet och medier Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen (Aalborg University) Sanning eller konsekvens? Senantiken och fiktionsteori Anders Cullhed (Stockholm University) Greek Manuscripts and Reform Ideals in the 11th Century Barbara Crostini (Stockholm University) Gamla Uppsala i ny belysning Olof Sundqvist, Torun Zachrisson (Stockholm University) Latin Translation of the Qur an: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Anthony Lappin (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study) Medeltid på Historiska museet Elisabet Regner (Historiska museet) The Uses and Application of Astronomy in Medieval Scandinavia Christian Etheridge (Centre for Medieval Literature, Syddansk Universitet) Den isländska sagan som mentalitetshistorisk källa Lars Lönnroth (University of Gothenburg) Catherine of Siena and the Mystical Body of the Church Unn Falkeid (Stockholm University)

14 Activities Medieval Seminar (Medeltidsseminariet) Page 14 of Den sargade dygden. Religionskritik hos tre klassiska persiska poeter: Sadi, Obayd och Hafez Hossein Sheiban (Stockholm University) Research presentation and plans of the new professor in medieval history Kurt Villads Jensen (Stockholm University) Boccaccio's Decameron Medeltidsseminariet & Äldre textseminariet Tidiga järnhanteringen och riksbildningen Bo Franzén (Stockholm University) Från Isis till icloud Anders Cullhed, Olle Ferm (Stockholm University) Birgitta-skåp i Provence Jan Svanberg (Stockholm University) Tracing Old Norse Cosmology: The World Tree, Middle Earth, and the Sun from Archaeological Perspectives Anders Andrén (Stockholm University) Ärkebiskop Anders Sunesen, Eketorps borg, korstågen och Estlandssvenskarna praktik och ideologi bakom ett nordiskt kolonisationsprojekt Jonathan Lindström (Stockholm University) Det medeltida Stockholm. En arkeologisk guidebok Elisabet Regner (Historiska museet) Presentation of publications by the members of CMS Centre for Medieval Studies & National Library Medeltida byggmästare i Norden Jan Svanberg (Stockholm University) Communication, Society and Homiletic Writing in Anglo-Saxon England Inka Moilanen (Stockholm University)

15 Activities Medieval Seminar (Medeltidsseminariet) Page 15 of Social Imagery in Middle Low German: Didactical Literature and Metaphorical Representation ( ) Lessons in Contempt Cordelia Heß (Stockholm University), Jonathan Adams (Uppsala University) Artiklar rörande det medeltida Italien Olle Ferm, Pär Förnegård, Anders Hallengren (Stockholm University) Langobards in Italy Marco Rotili (Seconda università di Napoli) The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Late Medieval Sweden, Camille Bataille (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie) Three articles on Tuscany & Umbria Anders Cullhed, Carina Jacobsson, Johan Eriksson (Stockholm University) Yngre Västgötalagen Göran B. Nilsson (Linköping University) Boskapsskötseln under medeltiden. En källpluralistisk studie Janken Myrdal (Stockholm University) Fornsvensk bibliografi & Svensk runbibliografi Inger Larsson, Ulrika Djärv (Stockholm University) Dräkt, makt, och kön. Dräktskick och materiell kultur i Upplands senmedeltida kyrkmålningar Pia Bengtsson Melin (Historiska museet) Hur fungerade Pommerska Bergslagen? Om det senmedeltida och tidigmoderna fiskeriets organisation vid södra östersjökusten Haik Thomas Porada (Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, Leipzig) Jag gav honom inte min kärlek. Om hövisk kärlek som kvinnlig strategi Carin Franzén (Linköping University) Visionens ikonografi Mari Oen (University of Oslo) The Story of Justina and Cyprian of Antioch as told in a medieval Lectionary from Piacenza Brian Møller Jensen (Stockholm University) Domkyrkan som andaktsrum i senmedeltidens Sverige Hanna Källström (National Archives)

16 Activities Medieval Seminar (Medeltidsseminariet) Page 16 of Maktens uttryck och anspråk : III Research course Maktens uttryck och anspråk : II Research course Maktens uttryck och anspråk : I Research course The Cult of St Erik Christian Oertel (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) Prussian Corn Trade in the 15th century Christina Link (Universität Hamburg) Västgötalagen Per-Axel Wiktorsson (Uppsala University) Anglo-Saxon Dreaming Gwendolyne Knight (Stockholm University) Presentation of publications by the members of CMS Centre for Medieval Studies, Uppsala University & National Library From the Ancient to the Medieval Countryside: Old Answers, New Questions Fredric Cheyette (Amherst College) Ansgar and the Early Mission in Scandinavia Anders Winroth (Yale University) Torstunamissalet Jan Brunius (National Archives) All the King s Women: Polygyny and Political Culture in the Medieval North Jan Rüdiger (Goethe-universität, Frankfurt am Main) Grävningarna vid Biskopskulla Annika Larsson (Uppsala University) Article on parish formation in Uppland Claes Tollin (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) Dynastiska förbindelser mellan Norden och kontinenten under tidig medeltid Kurt Villads Jensen (Syddansk Universitet)

17 Activities Medieval Seminar (Medeltidsseminariet) Page 17 of Monks, Scholars, Antiquarians and Rogues: the Sale of Medieval Manuscripts from the Reformation to the Present Day Timothy Bolton (Sotheby's) Medieval seminar in Wolfenbüttel Hossein Sheiban (Stockholm University) Resultaten från grävningarna i Mälby, Litslena socken, föranledda av den nya dragningen av E18: Vikingatid och medeltid i Mälby Lena Beronius Jörpeland, Anton Seiler (National Heritage Board) Theatrical Aspects of Two Old Swedish Ridicule-Texts Medeltidsseminariet, Äldretextseminariet, Teatervetenskapliga seminariet Den dendrokronologiska dateringen av Härnevi kyrka Ann Catherine Bonnier (Stockholm University) Öst Väst: Intellektuella beröringspunkter mellan Persien och Västeuropa Hossein Sheiban (Stockholm University) Mellan ofred och försoning. Konfliktskildringar i ett senmedeltida svenskt diplommaterial August Aronsson (Uppsala University) Teologisk tolkning av bilder och kärl i Härnevi kyrka Alf Härdelin, Stina Fallberg Sundmark (Stockholm University) Den skrivna kulturen i Sveriges medeltida Österland nya fynd, ny helhetsbild? Tuomas Heikkilä (University of Helsinki) Medeltida böcker och böcker om medeltiden Anna Wolodarski (National Library) Danske Kung Kristians handel Roger Andersson, Carl Claeson, Ebba Edberg, Peter Isotalo (Stockholm University) Hemsjömanualet i Västergötland Karin Strinnholm Lagergren (Stockholm University) Translation of the Old French Song of Roland Medeltidsseminariet, Äldretextseminariet Sankt Göran-skulpturen i Storkyrkan Peter Tångeberg, Jan Svanberg (Stockholm University), Jan von Bonsdorff (Uppsala University)

18 Activities Medieval Seminar (Medeltidsseminariet) Page 18 of Det äldre kartmaterialet om Härnevi by och socken Johan Berg (Stockholm University) Svenska studenter i Wien Olle Ferm (Stockholm University) Bero Magni och hans långa lärartid i Wien vid mitten av 1400-talet Erika Kihlman (Stockholm University) Late Medieval History of Science Michael & Carol Shank (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Akademisk predikan kontra monastisk predikan Roger Andersson (Stockholm University) Det senmedeltida Stockholm en språklig och kulturell smältdegel Stefan Mähl (Uppsala University) Yngre Västgötalagen Göran B. Nilsson (Linköping University) Vad kan man forska om i medeltida bestiarier Bo Eriksson (Stockholm University) Hur kan man skriva Sveriges historia? Anders Andrén, Olle Ferm (Stockholm University), Lars Hermansson (Uppsala University) Yngre Västgötalagen Göran B. Nilsson (Linköping University) Medieval bestiaries Christoffer De Hamel (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) Senmedeltida tyskt fastslagsspel Cordelia Heß (Stockholm University) Härnevi-projektet och kyrkans byggnadshistoria Ann-Cathrine Bonnier (Stockholm University) Beowulf and its reception St Bernhard Robert E. Bjork (Arizona State University) Wim Verbaal (Universiteit Gent) Det Medeltida Sverige: Kalmar län Roger Axelsson (National Heritage Board)

19 Activities Seminar for the Study of Old Texts (Äldretextseminariet) Page 19 of Marginalisering i det medeltida samhället Agneta Ney (Högskolan i Gävle) Missfall, riksrådet och andra bilder: laghandskrift från 1300-talet (B10) i Uppsala universitetsbibliotek Janken Myrdal (Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet), Eva Lindqvist Sandgren (Carolina Rediviva) Ägarna av Härnevi by i Uppland & Härnevi kyrkas medeltida sponsorer Olle Ferm (Stockholm University) The Homecoming of the Birgitta Relics Anders Fröjmark (Högskolan i Kalmar) Vilja och handlingsförklaring i medeltida filosofi Tomas Ekenberg (Uppsala University) Islänningasagar och kärleken Daniel Sävborg (Uppsala University) Froissart as Historian Peter Ainsworth (University of Sheffield) Seminar for the Study of Old Texts (Äldretextseminariet) The Centre for Medieval Studies is also part of arranging an interdisciplinary research seminar focused on texts, Seminar for the Study of Old Texts (Äldretextseminariet). The seminars are arranged ca. 3 4 times per term, and are open to the public. Attendance varies normally between 10 and 15. Both Master students and established scholars can present their work in the seminar. The seminar has a board, where the Centre has a representative, at present Professor emeritus Olle Ferm (Department of History).

20 Activities Conferences, workshops and excursions Page 20 of 105 Conferences, workshops and excursions 2016 Historians of Medieval Iberia: Enemies and Friends. A Marcus Wallenberg Symposium. Organised by Kurt Villads Jensen, Anthony Lappin & Kim Bergqvist. Funded by the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation for International Scientific Collaboration and the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University, March Doctoral Student Day (Doktoranddag), Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University & University of Gothenburg, May Excursion to Sigtuna, Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University, 26 August Medieval Scandinavia and the Papal Administration. Centre for Medieval Studies & The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, October Excursion to the church of Tensta on the account of publication of Heliga Birgittas uppenbarelser på fornsvenska (ed. Roger Andersson). Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University, 25 March Dominus Episcopus: Medieval Bishops in Their Dioceses. Medium Ӕvum 2015 Day Conference. Organised by Anthony John Lappin, Kurt Villads Jensen & Kim Bergqvist. The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, 3 December Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner: Transgressions and Social Order in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. Funded by the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and Stockholm University. Organised by Cordelia Heβ & Inka Moilanen, Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University, 13 June Workshop on the publishing of Janken Myrdal, Boskapsskötseln under medeltiden. En källpluralistisk studie. Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University, 11 February Fear and Loathing in the North: Muslims and Jews in Medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region. Organised by Jonathan Adams, Uppsala University & Cordelia Heβ, Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University, June Anticlericalism in the Late Middle Ages: Sources and Theoretical Approaches. Organised by Cordelia Heβ, Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University, 16 March Maktens uttryck och anspråk Research workshop on medieval Tuscany and excursion to Italy. April 2012.

21 Activities Conferences, workshops and excursions Page 21 of 105 Excursion to the church of Härnevi. Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University, 29 September The Eufemiavisor and Courtly Culture: Time, Texts and Cultural Transfer. Funded by Marcus Wallenberg Foundation and Kungliga Vitterhetsakademien. Organised by Olle Ferm, Ingela Hedström-Bolton, Inger Larsson, Sofia Lodén, Jonatan Pettersson & Mia Åkestam. Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University, October National Histories III: Constitutional Identities in Late Medieval Historical Writing. Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University, in collaboration with Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen & Glasgow University, 2 3 November Workshop on East and West in the Middle Ages. Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University, 16 March Swedish Students at Foreign Universities in the Middle Ages. Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University & Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, May The Birgitta Conference A Marcus Wallenberg Symposium. Funded by the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation for International Scientific Collaboration. Organised by Birgittastiftelsen in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University & the National Archives of Sweden, 6 8 October Workshop on Sweden in the 12 th Century. Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University, 14 November Workshop on Swedish Teachers at Foreign Universities in the Middle Ages. Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University. Berlin, May Symposium on Medieval Normandy. Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University. Excursion to Normandy, 9 15 June Meeting and book release of Santa Brigida Napoli, l Italia (2009). Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University. Naples & Benevento, 6 10 May Workshop on Swedish Students in Foreign Universities in the Middle Ages. Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University & Centre culturel suédois, Paris, May Symposium on Normativity. Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University. Frankfurt am Main, October The Apostolic Penitentiary and Medieval Society. Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University, in collaboration with Svenskt Diplomatarium, the National Archives of Sweden & Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies, October 2008.

22 Research projects Research programs Page 22 of 105 Research projects Research on the Middle Ages at Stockholm University ranges from the Viking Age to the Reformation in the sixteenth century. Research on medieval period has been focused on certain overarching themes that set historical phenomena in larger European contexts, where the dynamics between Sweden, Scandinavia and the rest of Europe has been central. Four themes emerge: 1) economic, material and environmental changes, 2) the emergence of politically demarcated territories, 3) the social significance of religions, ideologies and political culture 4) philology and linguistics of medieval languages, and 5) landscape, settlement and urbanisation in the Middle Ages. Much of the research takes place at the intersection of these themes. Senior researchers and doctoral students from several different disciplines at Stockholm University are affiliated to the Centre. The research topics are broad: linguistic studies on medieval translation practice, syntax, lexicography, palaeography and edition philology; literary and philosophical studies of medieval theories of fiction, prose and poetry, logic and theology; studies on medieval decorative arts and architecture; investigations of the medieval landscape, its organization and use of material resources; and historical studies on social and political thought, ideologies, economic and cultural history, manuscript contexts, crusades and climate research. The Centre has had a significant role in several successful grant applications, for instance as a participant in the St. Birgitta-project (p. 26), the project on Swedish Students at Foreign Universities (p. 23), and most recently in the Text till Tiden-project (p. 32). The Centre regularly advices individual researchers in planning and preparing grant applications. It is likely that being able to name the Centre as a strong and stable scholarly community where to place one s funding, has had a positive impact in many successful research grants. Other roles that the Centre has in the guidance of research activities include appointments to different boards and reference groups, e.g. appointments to TORA (Topografisk Register på Riksarkivet). The following research projects carried out by senior researchers have been reported to the Centre in : Research programs Programs initiated by the Centre for Medieval Studies Chess Allegories: The Swedish Schacktavelslek and its European Exemplars as Political Allegories ( ) Financed by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). The project examined how chess allegories were used in the Middle Ages to put forward critical assessments of contemporary politics. The project analysed and compared allegories in German and Latin texts. The project collaborated with a group of scholars at Münster University, Germany, whose project director was Professor Volker Honemann, Germanic studies, Münster University. The international workshops that were arranged as part of the project resulted in a collaborative book. Also international student exchange was organized within the framework of the project.

23 Research projects Research programs Page 23 of 105 Project director: Professor emeritus Olle Ferm (Centre for Medieval Studies, Department of History) Participants: Professor emeritus Olle Ferm (Centre for Medieval Studies, Department of History) Dr. Gösta Hedegård (Department of Romance Studies and Classics) Dr. Maren Jönsson (Department of German, Uppsala University) Professor Per-Axel Wiktorsson (Nordic Department, Örebro University) Main publications: Ferm, Olle, Making Chess Politically and Socially Relevant in Times of Trouble in the Schacktavelslek, in Daniel E. O Sullivan (ed.), Chess in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: A Fundamental Thought Paradigm of the Premodern World (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012): Ferm, Olle & Volker Honemann (ed.), Chess and Allegory in the Middle Ages: A Collection of Essays (Stockholm: Runica et Mediaevalia, 2005). Wiktorsson, Per-Axel, Schacktavelslek med äktenskapsvisan (Stockholm: Runica et Mediaevalia, 2016). Swedish Students at Foreign Universities in the Middle Ages (2008 ongoing) Financed by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, the Torsten och Ragnar Söderberg Foundation, the Åke Wiberg Foundation, the Granholm Foundation, the Gad Rausing Foundation and the Axelsson Johnson Foundation. This interdisciplinary project investigates the academic achievements by Swedish students and teachers at foreign universities and their impact on society when returning to Sweden from their studies abroad. The project is interested in shedding light on the societal origins of Swedish students, their subsequent careers, their inventories of books, and academic positions. The project has so far arranged several workshops abroad, including workshops in Paris (2009), Berlin (2010) and Wien (2012), and has resulted in a number of collaborative publications. Participants: Professor emeritus Olle Ferm (Centre for Medieval Studies, Department of History) Professor Alexander Andrée (Centre for Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto) Professor Brian McGuire (Department of History, Roskilde University) Professor Eva Odelman (Department of Romance Studies and Classics) Professor Hans Aili (Department of Romance Studies and Classics) Professor Håkan Ulfgård (Linköping University) Professor Mats Malm (University of Gothenburg)

24 Research projects Research programs Page 24 of 105 Professor Rodney Thomson (Peterhouse Cambridge and the University of Tasmania) Professor Siegrid Wenzel (Department of English, University of Pennsylvania) Professor Stephan Borgehammar (Lund University) Associate professor Claes Gejrot (the National Archives of Sweden, Svenskt Diplomatarium) Associate professor Corinne Peneau (Université Paris-Sorbonne) Associate professor Erika Kihlman (Department of Romance Studies and Classics) Associate professor Roger Andersson (Department of History) Associate professor Sara Risberg (the National Archives of Sweden, Svenskt Diplomatarium) Associate professor Tomas Ekenberg (Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University) Lic. Élisabeth Mornet (Université Paris-Sorbonne) Dr. Robert Andrews (Department of History) Main publications: Ferm, Olle & Erika Kihlman (ed.), Swedish Students at the University of Vienna in the Middle Ages (Stockholm: Sällskapet Runica et Mediævalia, 2011). Ferm, Olle & Sara Risberg (ed.), Swedish Students at the University of Leipzig in the Middle Ages. Careers, Books, and Teaching (Stockholm: Sällskapet Runica et Mediævalia, 2014). East West: Criticism Passed on Organized Religion in Medieval Persia and Western Europe (2009 ongoing) Financed by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation. The approach of the project is interdisciplinary and comparative. The aim is to determine similarities and differences between two established religions of the High and Late Middle Ages, Christianity and Islam. The project focuses on analysing well-articulated criticism in the form of satire that was targeted at these religions. In its comparative analysis of medieval concepts, the project applies the philosophical theory of thick and thin concepts. Two international workshops have been arranged within the framework of the project. Project director: Professor emeritus Olle Ferm (Centre for Medieval Studies Department of History) Participants: Professor emeritus Olle Ferm (Centre for Medieval Studies Department of History) Associate professor Cordelia Hess (Department of History, University of Gothenburg) Associate professor Hossein Sheiban (Department of History)

25 Research projects Research programs Page 25 of 105 Main publications: Sheiban, Hossein, Den sargade dygden. Religionskritik hos tre klassiska persiska poeter: Sadi, Obayd och Hafez (Lund: Ellerströms förlag, 2014). Heß, Cordelia, A Common Enemy: Late Medieval Anticlericalism revisited, Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 21 (2013): Stockholm och dess omgivningar under medeltiden (Stockholm and its Surroundings in the Middle Ages) (2011 ongoing) Financed by The Berit Wallenberg Foundation. The project examines the development of Stockholm city and its interrelationship to its surroundings. The project approaches the issue not only from an economic point of view, but also from a political one. Stockholm became the Capital of Sweden in the Late Middle Ages, and this growing importance and its impact in the surrounding landscape is of interest in the project. Three archaeological excavations have been conducted at Hammersta and Årsta in Södertörn in cooperation with the relevant authorities and the Department of Archaeology at Stockholm University. The project is a collaboration between the Centre for Medieval Studies, the National Heritage Board, the National Archives of Sweden, Stockholm County Museum, Stockholm County Administrative Board, and the Medieval Museum of Stockholm. Project director: Professor emeritus Olle Ferm (Centre for Medieval Studies, Department of History) Participants: Director of museum Solbritt Benneth (Medieval Museum of Stockholm) Director of museum Peter Bratt (Stockholm county museum) Director of museum Hans-Lennart Ohlsson (Maritime museums) Former county antiquarian Mats Jonsäter (Stockholm County board) State herald Dr. Henrik Klackenberg (the National Archives of Sweden) Professor emeritus Olle Ferm (Centre for Medieval Studies, Department of History) Associate professor Jan Risberg (Department of Physical Geography) Superintendent Dr. Marcus Hjulhammar (Maritime museums) Dr. Mia Åkestam (Department of Culture and Aesthetics) MA Frédéric Elfver (Numismatic research group NFG)

26 Research projects Research programs Page 26 of 105 Parish Churches in Uppland ( ) Financed by the Granholm Foundation & the Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation. The project examines the sponsors of medieval churches in Uppland, and questions the old hypothesis that they were built and sponsored by the peasants of the parish. The project is interdisciplinary, integrating perspectives from Human Geography, Art History, and Liturgical studies. Project director: Professor emeritus Olle Ferm (Centre for Medieval Studies, Department of History) Participants: Professor emeritus Olle Ferm (Centre for Medieval Studies, Department of History) Professor emeritus Per-Axel Wiktorsson (Örebro University) Associate professor Ann-Cathrine Bonnier (Department of Culture and Aesthetics) Associate professor Clas Tollin (the National Archives of Sweden) Associate professor Herman Bengtson (Upplandsmuseet) Associate professor Jan Brunius (the National Archives of Sweden) Associate professor Johan Berg (Department of Human Geography) Associate professor Per Vikstrand (Ortnamnarkivet, Uppsala) Dr. Gunilla Björkvall (Stockholm University) Dr. Karin Strinnholm Lagergen (Växjå University) Dr. Mia Åkestam (Department of Culture and Aesthetics) Dr. Timothy Bolton (University of Cambridge, Sotheby s) Heliga Birgittas Uppenbarelser på fornsvenska (The Revelations of Saint Birgitta of Sweden in Old Swedish) (2011 ongoing) From 2016 the project title is: Digitala Birgitta. Att tillgängliggöra heliga Birgittas fornsvenska texter (Birgitta of Sweden Digitally: Making St Birgitta s Revelations in Old Swedish Accessible), and hosted at the Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University. Financed by the Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University, the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (RJ), Thora Olssons stiftelse, the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, the Foundation Pro Fide et Christianismo & Åke Bonnier. The project aims to present a modern version of the Revelations of St. Birgitta. The text was previously published in the mid-nineteenth century by G. E. Klemming, but the edition is now widely regarded as outdated and in need of revision.

27 Research projects Research programs Page 27 of 105 The new edition will take into account the entire extant manuscript material, including all the fragments. All these textual witnesses will be accurately transcribed and compared with each other. With the help of the results that such a collation gives, we can draw more precise conclusions about the production of the texts, their relationship to the Latin version, and the ways language and style were used to adapt the contents of the vernacular text for different categories of readers. An important distinction here is between those manuscripts that were intended for internal use in Vadstena, and those produced for the worldly, often aristocratic, environments. Project directors: Professor emeritus Olle Ferm (Centre for Medieval Studies, Department of History) Professor Henrik Williams (Uppsala University) Participants: Associate professor Roger Andersson (Department of History) Dr. Ingela Hedström (the National Archives of Sweden) Dr. Marco Bianchi (Uppsala University) Dr. Zeth Alvered (Uppsala University) Main publications: Andersson, Elin, Claes Gejrot, Eddie Jones & Mia Åkestam (ed.), Continuity and Change: Papers from the Birgitta Conference at Dartington Konferenser 93 (Stockholm: Kungliga Vitterhetsakademien 2017), pp Andersson, Roger Birgitta and her Revelations in the Sermons of the Vadstena Brothers, in Claire Sahlin (ed.), A Companion to Birgitta of Sweden and her Legacy in the Later Middle Ages (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2018). Andersson, Roger (ed.), Heliga Birgittas texter på fornsvenska. Birgittas uppenbarelser. Bok 1 (Stockholm: Runica & Mediævalia, 2014). Andersson, Roger (ed.), Heliga Birgittas texter på fornsvenska. Birgittas uppenbarelser. Bok 2 (Stockholm: Runica & Mediævalia, 2016). Andersson, Roger (ed.), Heliga Birgittas texter på fornsvenska. Birgittas uppenbarelser. Bok 3 (Stockholm: Runica & Mediævalia, 2017). Andersson, Roger, Vadstena, in David Wallace (ed.), Europe: A Literary History vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), vol. 1, pp Gejrot, Claes, Mia Åkestam & Roger Andersson (ed.), The Birgittine Experience: Papers from the Birgitta Conference in Stockholm 2011 (Stockholm: Kungliga Vitterhetsakademien, 2013).