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List of Contributors
Viktor Aldrin is Associate Fellow of Research at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University. He holds a doctorate in Religious Studies and Theology (2010) and has been recognised as an Excellent Teaching Practitioner, ETP (2015). Aldrin has written a monograph in religious studies on lay religiosity, The Prayer Life of Peasant Communities in Late Medieval Sweden (2011), and several articles on professional ethics.
Håkon Haugland is a historian and a researcher at the University of Bergen. He defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Bergen in 2012 on the subject of guilds in the medieval Nordic towns. His main field of research is the history of guilds in the Nordic countries, but his research also includes other topics in urban history and church history. Among his publications are several articles on the subject of guilds and the book Dypvåg kirke (2012) on a medieval parish church in the south of Norway.
Mia Korpiola is Professor of Legal History at the University of Turku. She has published Between Betrothal and Bedding: Marriage Formation in Sweden, 1200–
1600 (2009). She has also edited the books Regional Variations in Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150-1600 (2011), The Svea Court of Appeal in the Early Modern Period: Historical Reinterpretations and New Perspectives (2014) and co-edited the book Authorities in the Middle Ages: Influence, Legitimacy, and Power in Medieval Society (2013) together with Sini Kangas and Tuija Ainonen.
Anu Lahtinen is currently acting as University Lecturer in Finnish and Nordic history at the University of Helsinki. She is Adjunct Professor (Docent) in Finnish History at the University of Turku and in Finnish and Nordic History at the University of Helsinki. She has published and edited numerous articles and books on medieval and early modern social and cultural history, often with a focus on gender history in the Nordic societies.
Eivor Andersen Oftestad is a church historian currently working as a postdoctoral fellow in the project “Death in Early Protestant Tradition” at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo. In her doctoral thesis The house of God: The translation of the temple and the interpretation of the Lateran Cathedral in the twelfth century (2010), she analysed how the Lateran Cathedral in Rome was perceived and represented in the twelfth century after the First Crusade.
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Iris Ridder is Associate Professor at the University of Dalarna in Sweden. She defended her doctoral thesis in comparative literature in 2002 on the subject of a thirteenth-century Latin text, Dialogus Salomonis et Marcolfi and its late medieval vernacular translations, mainly focusing on the Swedish version from the seventeenth century. Ridder is currently working on a monograph on the use of games in the medieval and late medieval Swedish mining society of Falun and its mining enterprise, Great Copper Mountain (Stora Kopparberget in Swedish).
Anne Irene Riisøy is Associate Professor of History and Social Sciences at Buskerud and Vestfold University College in Norway. Her main research interest is legal history. At present, she works on Viking Age outlaws and outlawry. A revised version of her doctoral dissertation, Sexuality, Law and Legal Practice and the Reformation in Norway, was published by Brill in 2009.
Ditlev Tamm is Professor of Legal History at the University of Copenhagen.
He has published extensively on many aspects of Danish and European legal history, political history, and cultural history. His many books and articles in several languages include biographies, studies on the history of legal science, ballet, literature and collaboration during World War II, in addition to a book on death in Western Europe from the Middle Ages until the present (Dødens triumf: mennesket og døden i Vesteuropa fra middelalderen til vore dage, 1992).
Beata Wojciechowska is Professor of History at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland. She received her doctorate in 1997. Wojciechowska has published a book on annual rites in the traditional Polish folk culture of the Middle Ages and another on excommunication in medieval Poland. She specialises in the religious and legal culture of late medieval Poland.
