Sverre Bagge is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Bergen and former director of the Centre for Medieval Studies in Bergen 2002–12. He has published extensively on medieval historiography and political thought, including Kings, Politics, and the Right Order of the World in German Historiography c. 950–1150 (2002) and From Viking Stronghold to Christian Kingdom (2010). His latest book is entitled Cross and Scepter. The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation (2014).
Aleksandr G. Bobrov defended his doctoral thesis in philology in 1996 on the subject of Novgorod chronicles of the fifteenth century and is currently Leading Researcher at the Department of Old Russian Literature, in the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Science. He has been a visiting professor at Hokkaido University (2003–2004) and at Kyoto University (2009), as well as a visiting lecturer at several European universities. He has published widely on Old Russian literature and has conducted several archaeographic expeditions to the Northern Russia to locate and study rare books and manuscripts.
Claes Gejrot is Editor-in-Chief of the Swedish charters edition series, Diplomatarium Suecanum, at the National Archives in Stockholm. He is also Associate Professor of Latin at Stockholm University. His work has focused on Medieval Latin texts, particularly on diplomatics, sermons and Birgittine studies. Among his publications are Diarium Vadstenense (diss. 1988, commentary and translation 1996), Diplomata Novevallensia (1994), Poetry for the Occasion (1999), The Fifteen Oes (2000), The Syon Martiloge (comm.
2010, edition 2015), Bero Magni de Ludosia (2011), and a number of books in the Diplomatarium series.
Timofey V. Guimon defended his doctoral thesis in philosophy at the Russian State University for Humanities in Moscow in 2001. Currently he holds a permanent position in the Institute of Universal History at the Russian Academy of Sciences. His scholarly interests deal with writing in early states, with a particular focus on early Rus’ and Anglo-Saxon chronicle writing, which is the topic of his monograph Istoriopisanie rannesrednevekovoi Anglii i Drevnei Rusi: Sravnitel’noe issledovanie (History writing in early medieval England and early Rus’: a comparative study, 2011).
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Mari Isoaho has a background in archaeology and general history at the University of Oulu, where she was trained in the methodology of historical image-research. Her doctoral dissertation, The Warrior and Saint.
The Image of Aleksandr Nevskiy in Medieval Russia was published by Brill in 2006. She is a former fellow of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and currently studying the imagery and the eschatological narratives of the Primary Chronicle of Kiev as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Academy of Finland.
Maijastina Kahlos is an historian and classicist at the University of Helsinki. She was Research Fellow in the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies 2011–2014 and works currently as research fellow in the Centre of Excellence ‘Reason and Religious Recognition’, funded by the Academy of Finland. She has published the monographs Vettius Agorius Praetextatus: Senatorial Life in Between (2002), Debate and Dialogue:
Christian and Pagan Cultures, c. 360–430 (2007) and Forbearance and Compulsion: Rhetoric of Tolerance and Intolerance in Late Antiquity (2009) and edited The Faces of the Other: Religious Rivalry and Ethnic Encounters in the Later Roman world (2012).
Sari Kivistö is Docent of Comparative Literature at the University of Helsinki and is currently Fellow and Deputy Director (since 2010) at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She has published widely on the history and theory of satire, classical traditions and early modern literary cultures (e.g., The Vices of Learning, 2014; Medical Analogy in Latin Satire, 2009). She is currently developing new projects on the history of evil books, dissident literature and learned artisans in early modern Europe.
Anna Kuismin is Docent of Finnish and Comparative Literature, University of Helsinki, and the founder of a multi-disciplinary research network focusing on the processes and practices of literacy in nineteenth- century Finland. She is also Principal Investigator in the project Exploring social boundaries from below:
Class, ideology and writing practices in nineteenth century Finland, funded by the Academy of Finland.
Staffan Wahlgren is Professor of Classical Philology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. His main research interests lie in the fields of textual criticism and linguistics. In his 1995 dissertation he treated the language of Greek authors of the early Roman Empire. In 2006 he published his edition of the Chronicle of Symeon the Logothete, at De Gruyter. He has also prepared an edition of parts of the Miscellanea of Theodore Metochites (1270–1332), and is currently working on a monograph on the literary language of Byzantium.
