Anders Winroth (born 1965 in
Ludvika
Ludvika () is a bimunicipal city and the seat of Ludvika Municipality, Dalarna County within the country of Sweden, with 14,498 inhabitants in 2010.
Overview
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in
Sweden) is a professor of medieval history at the
University of Oslo
The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...
and previously taught in the same field at
Yale University
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Life
After graduation from
Stockholm University, Winroth did his master's and doctoral studies at
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
under
Robert Somerville, followed by
postdoctoral research
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at the
University of Newcastle, where he was the
Sir James Knott Research Fellow and worked with
R. I. Moore.
Professor Winroth specializes in the history of "medieval Europe, especially religious, intellectual and legal history as well as the Viking Age. He teaches both halves of the survey lecture course in medieval history, seminars in religious, legal, intellectual, and Scandinavian history."
He worked on the ''
Decretum Gratiani
The ''Decretum Gratiani'', also known as the ''Concordia discordantium canonum'' or ''Concordantia discordantium canonum'' or simply as the ''Decretum'', is a collection of canon law compiled and written in the 12th century as a legal textbook b ...
'' of
Gratian
Gratian (; la, Gratianus; 18 April 359 – 25 August 383) was emperor of the Western Roman Empire from 367 to 383. The eldest son of Valentinian I, Gratian accompanied his father on several campaigns along the Rhine and Danube frontiers and w ...
and discovered that the original version, the so-called "first recension," was only about half the size of the commonly known text. Winroth also has a strong interest in Swedish genealogy.
Winroth was a
2003 MacArthur Fellow.
He is married to medievalist Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir. She works for the
National Library of Norway
The National Library of Norway ( no, Nasjonalbiblioteket) was established in 1989. Its principal task is "to preserve the past for the future". The library is located both in Oslo and in Mo i Rana. The building in Oslo was restored and reopened ...
and is known for her scholarship on women in the Viking world.
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References
External links
Winroth's personal web site
1965 births
Living people
Columbia University alumni
MacArthur Fellows
20th-century Swedish historians
Swedish medievalists
Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
21st-century Swedish historians
University of Oslo faculty
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