Professor Michael GELTING
Chair in Scandinavian Studies
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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.
Chair in Scandinavian Studies
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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
Contributions to Journals
Articles
- Gelting, MH. (2011). 'Uløste opgaver: Adam af Bremen, Saxo Grammaticus og Knytlinga saga'. Scandia, vol 77, no. 2, pp. 126-143.
- Gelting, MH. (2010). 'Poppo's Ordeal: Courtier Bishops and the Success of Christianization at the Turn of the First Millennium'. Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, vol 6, pp. 101-133.
- Gelting, MH. (2008). 'Den Sorte Død'. Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift, vol 2008, pp. 161-171.
- Gelting, MH. (2008). 'Pest, jøder og samfundsorden: Forgiftningsrygter og jødeforfølgelser i forbindelse med den Sorte Død'. Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund, vol 8, pp. 11-34.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings
Chapters
- Gelting, MH. (2011). 'Two Early Twelfth-Century Views of Denmark's Christian Past: Ailnoth and the Anonymous of Roskilde'. IH Garipzanov (ed.), in: Historical Narratives and Christian Identity on a European Periphery: Early History Writing in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe (c. 1070-1200). Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, vol. 26, Brepols, Turnhout, pp. 33-55.
- Gelting, MH. (2011). 'The Law of Jylland, the Law of Skåne, and King Valdemar's Law for Sjælland: A Revision'. P Andersen, P Letto-Vanamo, KÅ Modéer & H Vogt (eds), in: Liber Amicorum Ditlev Tamm: Law, History and Culture. DJØF Publishing, Copenhagen, pp. 95-105.
- Gelting, MH. (2010). 'Ansigt-til-ansigt-samfundet og de to øvrigheder'. HJ Orning, K Esmark & L Hermanson (eds), in: Gifts, rituals, conflicts: an anthropological perspective on Nordic Medieval history. Unipub forlag, Oslo, Norway, pp. 301-315.
- Gelting, MH. (2010). 'Viborg stifts grundlæggelse: og den danske kirkes udvikling i 1000-tallet'. O Degn (ed.), in: The Diocese and the City: The Diocese of Viborg, 1060-2010. Fra Viborg-egnen, vol. 75, Historisk Samfund for Viborg-egnen, Viborg, pp. 11-31.
- Gelting, MH. (2008). 'Reflections on the Insertion of Bureaucratic Structures in Medieval Clientelic Societies'. P Andersen, M Münster-Swendsen & H Vogt (eds), in: Law and Power in the Middle Ages: Proceedings of the Fourth Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Legal History 2007. vol. 4, DJØF Forlag, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 257-266.
- Gelting, MH. (2008). 'Un évêque danois élève de Fulbert de Chartres?'. M Rouche (ed.), in: Fulbert of Chartres, the precursor of medieval Europe?. PU Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France, pp. 63-75.
- Gelting, MH. (2008). 'Danmarks egenart i højmiddelalderen'. H Schultz Hansen (ed.), in: Research in the State Archives: Annual Report for 2007. National Archives (Denmark), Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 18-25.
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