Papers by Kurt Villads Jensen
Riccoldo da Monte di Croce. Missionary to the Near East and Expert on Islam, 2024
Riccoldo da Monte di Croce was a prolific author who left several works that were the results of ... more Riccoldo da Monte di Croce was a prolific author who left several works that were the results of years of study, years of travels, and years of writing and rewriting. Together, his works offer an unusual opportunity for following the methods of a medieval author, and when studying them, it soon becomes clear that there are great differences between the various descriptions of peoples that Riccoldo provides in his various works. He repeatedly claimed to base his opinions upon his own observations and studies, but in reality often referred to other authorities: sometimes he quoted them almost verbatim, sometimes he reworked them, sometimes we can find no model and must believe he built on his own experience. It seems a paradox, an inconsistency, but there may sometimes be specific reasons for the variation in methods. It is the aim of this chapter to discuss some concrete examples of Riccoldo's working methods, illustrated by the way he described different peoples of the East. It will not include his pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, nor his Epistole ad Ecclesiam Triumphantem, although they could easily be analysed along the same lines as follows.
ORDINES MILITARES Yearbook for the Study of the Military Orders COLLOQUIA TORUNENSIA HISTORICA, 2023
The Order of the Hospitallers had a privileged role in Scandinavia. In spite of this, only relati... more The Order of the Hospitallers had a privileged role in Scandinavia. In spite of this, only relatively few scholars have worked with the Order’s Scandinavian history, and none specifically with its relationships to women. The aim of the present article is to discuss women’s important role as donators and benefactors, what kind of agreements they could make of the Order, and the importance for the Order’s planning and expansion of estate.
Scandinavia and the Vatican Archives Papers from a Conference in Stockholm, 14–15 October 2016 Kirsi Salonen, Anna-Stina Hägglund, & Claes Gejrot (eds), 2022
Ajalooline Ajakiri, 2022, 2/3 (180/181), 135–147
The Danish conquest of Tallinn in 1219 is a traditional highpoint in the historical narrative, bo... more The Danish conquest of Tallinn in 1219 is a traditional highpoint in the historical narrative, both in Denmark and in Estonia. No general history in either of the two countries would be complete without it, and the episode has been retold in popular literature, in historical novels and romanticising paintings, and in films and even cartoons. But was it really considered something special by the Danish king and his contemporaries? Was the conquest of Tallinn perhaps just another of many successful military expeditions and not worth mentioning afterwards? Or was it, on the contrary, part of a grandiose plan of coordinated crusading in the north and the south, in the Baltic and the Mediterranean, in Estonia and the Holy Land? The reason for posing these questions is that the conquest of Tallinn in 1219 does not seem to have been mentioned very often in medieval sources afterwards, and not in contexts where it would have been obvious. This paper is an attempt to place the conquest in context and discuss its possible importance to its contemporary political agents. 1 After King Valdemar II the Victorious of Denmark (r. 1202-1241) had died in 1241, the well-informed English chronicler Matthew Paris first complained about the audacity of Valdemar, who had even dared to threaten to attack England. He then praised Saint Edward, who had saved England from Danish tyranny by letting Valdemar's son and heir die and leaving Denmark in a state of anarchy. Matthew Paris summarised King Valdemar's eventful life as follows: 1 For a general introduction to Danish and Scandinavian history of the period, see
War, Diplomacy and Peacemaking in Medieval Iberia, 2021
The importance of the recording and evocation of emotions in crusading literature in the twelfth-... more The importance of the recording and evocation of emotions in crusading literature in the twelfth-century Iberian Peninsula is here addressed, detailing the appeals to strong emotion which characterized pious zeal and religious warfare in the De expugnatione Lyxbonensi and the slightly earlier De expugnatione Scalabis. For the former, each stage of the journey and seige is analysed for its representation of emotions (or the lack of emotion-the evocation of the humdrum, or the rationality of theological argument); for the latter, particular attention is paid to the rhetorical strategies of the author in infusing events with emotional significance.
Scandinavia and the Vatican Archives. Papers from a Conference in Stockholm 14–15 October 2016, 2022
Sfinx, 2020
om den sorte død i middelalderen - inspireret af corona virus.
From: Dominus Episcopus. Medieval Bishops between Diocese and Court, ed. Anthony John Lappin
e-Strategica es una revista especializada en temas relacionados con la historia militar de la Pen... more e-Strategica es una revista especializada en temas relacionados con la historia militar de la Península Ibérica entre los siglos IV
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Warfare was cruel along the religious borders in the Baltic in the twelfth and thirteenth century... more Warfare was cruel along the religious borders in the Baltic in the twelfth and thirteenth century and oscillated between mass killing and mass enslavement.
Prisoners of war were often problematic to control and guard, but they were
also of huge economic importance. Some were used in production, some were ransomed, some held as hostages, all depending upon status of the prisoners and needs of the slave owners.
The second crusade. Scope and consequences, ed. Jonathan Phillips & Martin Hoch, Manchester UP 20... more The second crusade. Scope and consequences, ed. Jonathan Phillips & Martin Hoch, Manchester UP 2001, 164-179.
og til sidst naermest et symbol på den nye demokratiske epoke efter Danmarks første grundlov, et ... more og til sidst naermest et symbol på den nye demokratiske epoke efter Danmarks første grundlov, et omvandrende justitsmord fra den afskaffede enevaeldes tid. Men han kunne lige så godt vaere endt som en af Danmarks store orientalister.
"Korstogstanken i dansk senmiddelalder," Danmark og Europa i Senmiddelalderen, red. Per Ingesman ... more "Korstogstanken i dansk senmiddelalder," Danmark og Europa i Senmiddelalderen, red. Per Ingesman og Bjørn Poulsen, Århus: Universitetsforlaget, 2000, pp. 39-63
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Prisoners of war were often problematic to control and guard, but they were
also of huge economic importance. Some were used in production, some were ransomed, some held as hostages, all depending upon status of the prisoners and needs of the slave owners.
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Prisoners of war were often problematic to control and guard, but they were
also of huge economic importance. Some were used in production, some were ransomed, some held as hostages, all depending upon status of the prisoners and needs of the slave owners.
http://en.aup.nl/books/9789089647764-church-and-belief-in-the-middle-ages.html
Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
Odense 27 June - 1 July 2016
last chance to submit paper proposals!
DEADLINE 20 JULY 2016
we shall celebrate a symposium with the theme "Enemies and Friends" in Stockholm on March 14-16, 2016. This theme should be understood widely, and it is intended that it embraces courtly cultures, diplomacy, shifting alliances and military and social conflict; rituals of friendship, signs of enmity; patronage and exclusion, exile and execution; odium theologicum, polemic, competition, and coexistence within and between religious communities; charitas and supernatural threats.
Confirmed keynote speakers are:
Professor Simon Barton (University of Exeter)
Assistant Professor Maria João Violante Branco (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Professor Simon Doubleday (Hofstra University, NY)
Professor Maribel Fierro (Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid)
We accept short proposals for 20-minute papers, containing an abstract (of about 300 words) and a brief CV, or proposals for sessions containing three such papers. These should be sent by October 30, 2015 to [email protected].
The preferred language of the symposium will be English.
Notification of acceptance of proposed sessions and papers will be given on November 30, 2015.
Presenters will be invited to submit their papers for evaluation for a publication of the proceedings edited by the organisers.
We shall discuss bishops and/as canonists, bishops and pastoral obligations, bishops and monasteries for the early medieval period; for the central middle ages, bishops and/in the crusades, and papal legates, and bad behaviour; and for the end of the middle ages, bishops and/in the court, and/in armies and, finally, the last three bishops of Uppsala.
We are pleased to note that we have, as speakers, one Angle, one Celt, one Celtiberian, one Dane, three (!) Finns, one Geat (Western), one Jute, and one from the lands of the Rus.
The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature is pleased to announce that it will award up to ten travel and accommodation bursaries for graduate students, based in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, who wish to attend the conference. If you wish to apply, please email the Executive Officer ([email protected]) as soon as possible.
The Conference will take place on 3rd December 2015 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquity, Stockholm Sweden. Find more details and register here: http://mediumaevum.modhist.ox.ac.uk/dayconference