Anders Winroth
@winroth.bsky.social
FBA, Professor of Medieval History, University of Oslo. Interested in cultural, intellectual, religious, and legal history, vikings, early Rus/Ukraine, manuscripts, medieval world history. President of the Institute of Medieval Canon Law. #medievalcanonlaw
I am deeply honoured to have been elected a fellow by the British Academy.
The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · 3w agoThe British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences. Congratulations to all those elected today. Read the full announcement: https://bit.ly/4f64C4x
My long held desire to go to Iona has finally been fulfilled. The weather is amazing, with no need for the warm and rain-resistant clothes we like, not even on the seavoyage today to Fingal's Cave.
The legendary medievalist Caroline Walker Bynum (Left) received an honorary doctorate at the University of St Andrews yesterday and I (Right) gave the laureation. #medievalsky
This podcast is very interesting and informative. Recommended! pca.st/podcast/c8c3...
That's So Medieval
The Middle Ages may not seem all that topical or important in an age dominated by science and technology, yet for better or worse, the medieval period created the world we live in today. In "That's So...
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I have accepted the position as director of the Centre for medieval studies at Stockholm University combined with a chair in medieval history from January. I did my undergraduate studies in Stockholm and the founding director Göran Dahlbäck was my advisor. Back to beginning www.su.se/english/divi...
Centre for Medieval Studies - Stockholms universitet
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My wife analyses (in Norwegian) that (in)famous photo of the Norwegian football team as Vikings. www.youtube.com/shorts/ILqpN...
Hvordan ser en autentisk viking ut?
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The medieval (1290s) wooden floor of the church in Gagnef, Sweden, was recently found. It was taken out of the church in 1774 and put in an outbuilding. www.siljannews.se/gagnef/sensa...
Sensationellt golvfynd från 1290-talet - Siljan News
I den så kallade tiondeladan eller prästgårdslogen, intill Gagnefs kyrka, så har man nu spårat upp och tidsbestämt ett gammalt golv. Ett golv som tidigare använts i kyrkan.
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I published an article on canon law in Norway from the missionary time to the early 14th century. It is in Norwegian, which I cannot write, but they translated it. issuu.com/nasjonalbibl...
Magnus Lagabøtes kristenrett, Sættargjerden i Tønsberg
Magnus Lagabøtes kristenrett er loven med kirkelige regler som ble forsøkt innført i kongens regjeringstid (1263–1280), og Sættargjerden er avtalen som ble inngått mellom kong Magnus og erkebiskop Jon
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It was with great sadness and shock I found out that my former student Torrence N. Thomas, Yale PhD 2009, passed away, all too young. He was a wonderful man and scholar of enormous abilities. www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/w...
Torrence Thomas Obituary - Washington, DC
Celebrate the life of Torrence Thomas, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Joseph Gawler's Sons, LLC.
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If you are in Paris, come and listen to me lecture about Gratian! Tuesday 2 December at 18.00 in the College de Ste Barbe, close to the Panthéon.
A parchment letter from 1386 was until recently the oldest evidence for the earliest ancestor of the Swedish-Finnish noble families Svinhufvud. The letter is a deed of sale through which a man called "Jønis Swinshwow" buys the manor Höjen with an adjacent farm. The upper right corner is damaged. 1/
The railroad bridge over the mighty Glomma river disappearing into the late morning mist. When I take the train between Oslo and Stockholm, I cross on that bridgem
Read the interview with Sven Meeder, who has published the latest volume in the series Monumenta iuris canonici. He talks about early medieval canon law and especially about the misnamed Collectio CCCC capitulorum (in reality 404 chapters!). www.cuapress.org/2025/09/10/i...
Interview with Sven Meeder on Collectio CCCC capitulorum, The Collection in 400 Chapters - Catholic University of America Press
Interview with Sven Meeder for the CUA Press Blog on his new canon law book.
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A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time
After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series
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The last page of the first part of Gratian's Decretum, ending with D.101 d.p.c.1 in a manuscript from the 1190s, written in Bologna. The second gloss layer in the bottom contains a version of the apparatus "Ecce vicit leo" on C.1 authored before 1210 by Petrus Brito, professor in Paris. 1/
More than a hundred persons came to the National Archives in Stockholm yesterday to celebrate the scholarship of Claes Gejrot-once my Latin teacher now my friend-with a Festschrift. He was totally surprised.
What's wrong with 'legal pluralism'? Danica Summerlin and @ajt55.bsky.social explain: doi.org/10.1080/0144...
Law Beyond the Legal Renaissance: Rethinking Jurisdiction in the European central Middle Ages
The introduction to this special issue lays out its approach to the phenomenon of jurisdiction during the European central Middle Ages. Rethinking jurisdiction, we argue, is key to understanding th...
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Visited the National Museum in Edinburgh today and saw some of the Lewis chessmen.
Had a great time at @imc-leeds.bsky.social, saw many old and new friends and caught up with four of my former PhD-students.
«La edad de los vikingos», de @winroth.bsky.social, fue uno de los libros más vendidos de la Feria del Libro de Xixón. De hecho, arrasó y el sábado nos habíamos quedado ya sin ejemplares.
My student Tatiana Petrukhina defended her dissertation "Custom in the Long Twelfth Century" on Friday the 13th. Seen here with her examination committee. It is a powerfully and elegantly argued thesis about practical reasoning about custom.
I had no idea, but apparently my viking book came out in Chinese in 2019.
My book Age of the Vikings has come out in Spanish. I was interviewed by a Spanish radio station about it by @Davidsanyudo.bsky.social.
David Sañudo@davidsanyudo.bsky.social · last yr.😀Hablar de #vikingos ⚔️ en la radio 📻 es bien... 😍Hacerlo con con @winroth.bsky.social 🇸🇪 y Kim Hjartar🇳🇴 es ya un verdadero lujo ➡️Lo hacemos por los libros 📚que han publicado con @villadeindianos y @DespertaFerro cadenaser.com/cmadrid/2025/0… @cadenaser.bsky.social
Watch my lecture about the last 30 years of research on Gratian's Decretum. Sorry for my rather thick accent. www.kaththeol.lmu.de/de/aktuelles...
Gastdozentur und Gastvortrag von Prof. Dr. Anders Winroth (Oslo) im Januar 2025
Aufzeichnung des Vortrags zum Thema „Gratian revisited: Dreißig Jahre nach der Entdeckung der ersten Rezension“ und Interview mit Prof. Winroth zur Bedeutung des Kirchenrechts und der rechtshistorisc...
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If you are in Munich, come and listen to my lecture. www.kaththeol.lmu.de/de/aktuelles...
Vortrag „Gratian revisited“
Abendvortrag von Prof. Dr. Anders Winroth (Oslo) mit anschließendem Stehempfang
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