Anders Winroth
@winroth.bsky.social
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
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/
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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
October 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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!).
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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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September 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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...
www.cuapress.org/2025/09/10/i...
Started to read and seems very important.
Tonicha Upham, Death Rituals:
The Rūs and 'Vikings' in Arabic and Persian, is available #OpenAccess until 2 October.
#MedievalSky
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The Rūs and 'Vikings' in Arabic and Persian, is available #OpenAccess until 2 October.
#MedievalSky
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Death Rituals
Cambridge Core - Global History - Death Rituals
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September 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Started to read and seems very important.
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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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September 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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.
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/
August 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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.
August 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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.
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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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August 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
What's wrong with 'legal pluralism'? Danica Summerlin and @ajt55.bsky.social explain: doi.org/10.1080/0144...
Visited the National Museum in Edinburgh today and saw some of the Lewis chessmen.
July 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Visited the National Museum in Edinburgh today and saw some of the Lewis chessmen.
Yale reunion at @imc-leeds.bsky.social.
July 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Yale reunion at @imc-leeds.bsky.social.
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.
July 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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.
On my way to @imc-leeds.bsky.social , at Oslo Airport.
July 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
On my way to @imc-leeds.bsky.social , at Oslo Airport.
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«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.
June 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
«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.
June 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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.
March 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I had no idea, but apparently my viking book came out in Chinese in 2019.
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Sorry, Anders, try this better
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La Era Vikinga: plata y acero
Reseñamos dos libros sobre estos siglos: ‘La edad de los vikingos’ de Anders Winroth y ‘El juego de Odín’ de Kim Hjardar | Cadena SER
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February 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Sorry, Anders, try this better
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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.
😀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
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😍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
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February 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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.
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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February 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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...
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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January 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
If you are in Munich, come and listen to my lecture. www.kaththeol.lmu.de/de/aktuelles...
I gave a lecture at the Société d'histoire de droit in Paris about the connections between Scandinavian and European canon law. It was very good to see friends and to try out some of my ideas about the unique Scandinavian tradition of producing vernacular handbooks of #canonlaw for the laity.
December 23, 2024 at 10:37 AM
I gave a lecture at the Société d'histoire de droit in Paris about the connections between Scandinavian and European canon law. It was very good to see friends and to try out some of my ideas about the unique Scandinavian tradition of producing vernacular handbooks of #canonlaw for the laity.
I am very sorry that my friend, the incomparable Ed Peters has passed away. I do not know anyone who has written so much of real interest. His chapter on heresy and magic in a book I co-edited is brilliant. live-sas-www-history.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/people/emeri...
Edward Peters (In Memoriam) | Penn Arts & Sciences Department of History
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December 6, 2024 at 6:22 PM
I am very sorry that my friend, the incomparable Ed Peters has passed away. I do not know anyone who has written so much of real interest. His chapter on heresy and magic in a book I co-edited is brilliant. live-sas-www-history.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/people/emeri...
I attended the party in Lund where my friend Stephan Borgehammar received a festschrift. Stephan was suitably surprised when he suddenly found a room full of academics with champagne glasses, while guiding grand-children around the. University.
December 3, 2024 at 10:00 AM
I attended the party in Lund where my friend Stephan Borgehammar received a festschrift. Stephan was suitably surprised when he suddenly found a room full of academics with champagne glasses, while guiding grand-children around the. University.
"The work of historians and knowledge of their findings are of decisive importance today." Pope Francis issued a letter about the importance of studying (not gossiping about) history. He talks specifically about church history, but he also generalizes. He is not wrong! www.vatican.va/content/fran...
Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis on the Renewal of the Study of Church History (21 November 2024) | Francis
Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis on the Renewal of the Study of Church History, 21 November 2024
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November 23, 2024 at 9:36 AM
"The work of historians and knowledge of their findings are of decisive importance today." Pope Francis issued a letter about the importance of studying (not gossiping about) history. He talks specifically about church history, but he also generalizes. He is not wrong! www.vatican.va/content/fran...
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The latest issue of Early Medieval Europe is out now! Including Merovingian bishops, the Trojans, Carolingian pedlars, a canon law manuscript and Pope Gregory the Great.
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January 19, 2024 at 2:51 PM
The latest issue of Early Medieval Europe is out now! Including Merovingian bishops, the Trojans, Carolingian pedlars, a canon law manuscript and Pope Gregory the Great.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254...