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Anders Winroth

@winroth.bsky.social
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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

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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Today, I visited Gunnarskog and saw a runestone with the early runes. Apparently, the incomplete text has not yet been interpreted, at least notin rundata.info. The local museum café sold excellent waffles.
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I am deeply honoured to have been elected a fellow by the British Academy.
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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.
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Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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
An academic procession
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This podcast is very interesting and informative. Recommended! pca.st/podcast/c8c3...
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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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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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...
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Centre for Medieval Studies - Stockholms universitet
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
My wife analyses (in Norwegian) that (in)famous photo of the Norwegian football team as Vikings. www.youtube.com/shorts/ILqpN...
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Hvordan ser en autentisk viking ut?
YouTube video by Nasjonalbiblioteket
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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...
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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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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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...
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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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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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...
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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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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
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.
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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/
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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...
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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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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Started to read and seems very important.
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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.
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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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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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/
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
What's wrong with 'legal pluralism'? Danica Summerlin and @ajt55.bsky.social explain: doi.org/10.1080/0144...
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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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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Visited the National Museum in Edinburgh today and saw some of the Lewis chessmen.
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Yale reunion at @imc-leeds.bsky.social.
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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.
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
On my way to @imc-leeds.bsky.social , at Oslo Airport.
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Villa de Indianos @villadeindianos.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
«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.
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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.
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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Bob Moore obituary
Other lives: Medieval historian at Sheffield and Newcastle universities who wrote influential books on heresy and the roots of intolerance
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I had no idea, but apparently my viking book came out in Chinese in 2019.
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David Sañudo @davidsanyudo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Sorry, Anders, try this better cadenaser.com/cmadrid/2025...
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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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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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.
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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...
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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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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
If you are in Munich, come and listen to my lecture. www.kaththeol.lmu.de/de/aktuelles...
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Vortrag „Gratian revisited“
Abendvortrag von Prof. Dr. Anders Winroth (Oslo) mit anschließendem Stehempfang
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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.
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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...
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Edward Peters (In Memoriam) | Penn Arts & Sciences Department of History
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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.
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
"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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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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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
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...
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254/2024/32/1
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
My daughter is in Sweden's largest morning paper today, speaking out against the aggressive sales techniques of the big seller of that nice white hat you buy when you graduate high school. www.dn.se/ekonomi/elev...
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Elever: Vi hetsas att köpa dyra studentmössor
En studentmössa kan kosta tusentals kronor.
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Anders Winroth @winroth.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
My viking book is now available in Spanish. www.villadeindianos.com/producto/la-...
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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Two new open-access books on "Standardization in the Middle Ages," with material on money, chess, canon law, liturgy, and more -- volume 1, The North: www.degruyter.com/document/doi... and volume 2, Europe: www.degruyter.com/document/doi... #medievalsky
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Standardization in the Middle Ages
We live in a world riven through with standards. To understand more of their deep, rich past is to understand ourselves better. The two volumes, Standardization in the Middle Ages. Volume 1: The North...
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