Professor Michael Gelting

Chair in Scandinavian Studies

Michael Gelting

 

Personal Details

Telephone:

+44 (0)1224 274137

Fax:

+44 (0) 1224 - 272203

E-mail:

m.h.gelting@abdn.ac.uk

Address:

School of Divinity, History and Philosophy
Centre for Scandinavian Studies,
CASS - College of Arts and Social Sciences,
Room: EIF6,
24 High Street,
King's College,
University of Aberdeen,
Old Aberdeen,
AB24 3EB.

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Biography

Part-time at the University of Aberdeen. For the rest of the year, I am a Senior Research Archivist at the Danish National Archives (Rigsarkivet), Copenhagen.

Address:

Publikumsafdelingen
Rigsarkivet
Rigsdagsgaarden 9
DK-1218 Copenhagen K
Denmark
Tel: +45 33 92 23 94
E-mail: mhg@ra.sa.dk

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Research Interests

In the context of my employment at the University of Aberdeen, my key research interest is the development of Danish society from the eleventh to the fourteenth century. My research in this field is particularly concerned with the development of Danish law as it has been transmitted through the law-books that were issued from c.1170 to c.1247. An important overarching theme is the question of understanding and defining the nature of Danish society during the centuries in question through comparison with contemporary societies in western and central Europe. This theme seems particularly promising at present, as traditional models of European “feudal” society are giving way to models inspired by anthropological and ethnological research.

In addition to these studies, I am also engaged in research on the effects of the Black Death upon fourteenth-century society, largely based upon personal studies in account rolls and other sources from Maurienne, Savoy.

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Teaching Responsibilities

  • HI501X The Empire of Cnut the Great

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Publications

  • Gelting, MH. Circumstantial Evidence, Chapter, 2011, Medieval Legal Process
  • Gelting, MH. The Law of Jylland, the Law of Skne, and King Valdemar's Law for Sjlland, Chapter, 2011, Liber Amicorum Ditlev Tamm, pp95 - 105
  • Gelting, MH. The Problem of Danish 'Feudalism', Chapter, 2011, Feudalism, pp159 - 184
  • Gelting, MH. Two Early Twelfth-Century Views of Denmark's Christian Past: Ailnoth and the Anonymous of Roskilde, Chapter, 2011, Historical Narratives and Christian Identity on a European Periphery: Early History Writing in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe (c. 1070-1200), pp33 - 55
  • Gelting, MH. Ulste opgaver, Article, 2011, Scandia, 77, 2, pp126 - 143, ISSN/ISBN: 0036-5483
  • Gelting, MH. Ansigt-til-ansigt-samfundet og de to vrigheder, Chapter, 2010, Gaver, ritualer, konflikter, pp301 - 315
  • Gelting, MH. Poppo's Ordeal, Article, 2010, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, 6, pp101 - 133, ISSN/ISBN: 1782-7183
  • Gelting, MH. Viborg stifts grundlggelse, Chapter, 2010, Stiftet og byen, pp11 - 31
  • Gelting, MH. Danmarks egenart i hjmiddelalderen, Chapter, 2008, Forskningen i Statens Arkiver: rsberetning for 2007, pp18 - 25
  • Gelting, MH. Den Sorte Dd, Article, 2008, Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift, 2008, pp161 - 171, ISSN/ISBN: 0300-3655
  • Gelting, MH. Pest, jder og samfundsorden, Article, 2008, Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund, 8, pp11 - 34, ISSN/ISBN: 1904-7975
  • Gelting, MH. Reflections on the Insertion of Bureaucratic Structures in Medieval Clientelic Societies, Chapter, 2008, Law and Power in the Middle Ages, 4, pp257 - 266
  • Gelting, MH. Un vque danois 骩lve de Fulbert de Chartres?, Chapter, 2008, Fulbert de Chartres, prcurseur de l'Europe mdi驩vale?, pp63 - 75

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24 High St
King's College
Aberdeen, AB24 3EB