Announcements

Myth, Magic, and Memory in Early Scandinavian Narrative Culture

April 23, 2021

I was delighted and honored – and utterly surprised – to be presented on my recent 70 th birthday with a beautiful volume of essays on a wide range of topics treating spiritual culture in the pre-modern North, edited by Jürg Glauser and Pernille Hermann...

Sixth Jarl Gallén Prize

November 20, 2019

Sixth Jarl Gallén Prize

Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies

January 11, 2019

I am very pleased to note that the Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches (De Gruyter, http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/458546) - finally, some might say - appeared at the end of 2018. From the back cover: In...

Old Norse Mythology — Comparative Perspectives

December 13, 2017

The anthology Old Norse Mythology — Comparative Perspectives, ed. Pernille Hermann, Stephen Mitchell and Jens Peter Schjødt (CHS/Harvard University Press) is now available.

Århus-Samsø Viking Studies Program

May 20, 2016

Harvard's cooperative Viking Studies venture with Århus University and Moesgård Museum is featured on pp. 8-9 of In situ, available at -- http://archaeology.harvard.edu/files/sca/files/in_situ_11.pdf?m=1463573…

Honorary doctorate from Aarhus University

September 11, 2015

A video produced by Aarhus University for the occasion: stephenmitchell_1_-_wi-fi_copy.mp4 From the Aarhus University webpage— "Professor Stephen A. Mitchell from Harvard University has been appointed honorary doctor at Aarhus University based on his...

Minni and Muninn. Memory in Medieval Nordic Culture. Ed. Pernille Hermann, Stephen A. Mitchell and Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir.

March 29, 2014

Now available through http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503549101-1

Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages now in paperback

March 22, 2013

Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages is now available from the University of Pennsylvania Press as a paperback and as an ebook, in addition to the traditional hardbound format: Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4290-4 | $49.95s | £32.50 | Paper Mar...

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Memory and Remembering: Past Awareness in the Medieval North

March 22, 2013

The 2012 Radcliffe Seminar, “The Ambiguities of Memory Construction in Medieval Texts: The Nordic Case,” inspired a series of theoretically-oriented essays which have now appeared as Memory and Remembering: Past Awareness in the Medieval North. Special...

The Ambiguities of Memory Construction in Medieval Texts: The Nordic Case

April 18, 2012

On April 13 and 14, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study sponsored an exploratory seminar on The Ambiguities of Memory Construction in Medieval Texts: The Nordic Case, with participants representing such disciplines as history, literature, folklore...

About Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press)

June 11, 2013

For details, a sample section of the book, and more, please see the University of Pennsylvania Press website. REVIEWER COMMENTS IN BRIEF COMPLETE REVIEWS: American Historical Review ARV The Catholic Historical Review English Historical Review Folklore...

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