CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor
Centre of Medieval Studies
University of Bergen
PO Box 7800
N-5020 Bergen NORWAY
| Office Telephone: | +47 55 58 80 86 / +45 39 66 53 03 |
| Office Fax: | +47 55 58 80 90 |
| Active email: | lars.mortensen@cms.uib.no |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.cms.uib.no |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Medieval Latin literature in Scandinavia, including editions of Norwegian twelth-century texts.
Literary studies in European national and regional chronicles and their application of ancient Roman history.
The Renaissance and Baroque discovery of the medieval past in Denmark and Norway.
The status of Latin as literary medium during the Middle Ages.
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
— 2000: I. Ekrem, L.B. Mortensen & K. Skovgaard-Petersen (eds.), Olavslegenden og den latinske historieskrivning i 1100-tallets Norge, København.
— 2000: ‘The Diffusion of Roman Histories in the Middle Ages. A List of Orosius, Eutropius, Paulus Diaconus, and Landolfus Sagax Manuscripts’, in Filologia Mediolatina VI-VII (1999-2000), 101-200.
— 2000: ‘The Nordic Archbishoprics as literary centres around 1200’, in K. Friis-Jensen & I. Skovgaard-Petersen (eds.), Absalon of Lund and his World, Roskilde, 133-157.
— 2000: ‘The Anchin Manuscript of Passio Olaui (Douai 295), William of Jumieges, and Theodoricus Monachus. New Evidence for Intellectual Relations between Norway and France in the 12th Century’, in Symbolae Osloenses 75, 165-189.
— 2000: ‘Impero Romano, Historia Romana e Historia Langobardorum’, in P. Chiesa (ed.), Paolo Diacono. Uno scrittore fra tradizione longobarda e rinnovamento carolingio, Udine, 355-66.
— 2002: ‘Recent Research in the Legend of Saint Olav’, in D. Walz (ed.) Lateinische Biographie von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart. Scripturus vitam. Festgabe für Walter Berschin zum 65. Geburtstag, Heidelberg.
— 2003: Historia Norwegie, eds. I. Ekrem & L.B. Mortensen, tr. P. Fisher, Copenhagen. 248pp.
— 2003: ‘The Study of Medieval Latin Literature – an Expanding Field of Little Impact?’ in Mediävistik in 21. Jahrhundert, ed. Goetz & Jarnut, München, 135-147.
— Forthcoming: "Extending Sacred Space into the North. Strategies of Geographical Description in Twelfth-Century Scandinavia." Article in collection Ed. Kurt Villads Jensen, Odense.
— Forthcoming: "The Rhetoric of the Latin Page. Authority, Persuasion and Latinity in Medieval and Renaissance Historiography." Article in collection, ed. Marianne Børch.
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
My studies in the status of Latin as a literary language are related to this field, but it deals exclusively with written languages.
History of the Medieval Book:
My studies in the tradition of Roman histories in the Middle Ages are concerned directly with delimited group of meanuscripts (of Orosius, Paulus Diaconus and others).
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
My main literary studies lie within the field of Latin historiography with an emphasis in the period ca 1000-1200. I am in charge of a project at CMS about the construction of the past in the northern and eastern periphery of Europe (ca. 1000-1300) and currently editiing a book on this subject.
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Amund Børdahl, Handbooks of rhetoric around 1600.
Åslaug Ommundsen, Sequences in Norwegian liturgy ca 1100-1500.
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in exchange of PhD students and staff exchanges with WUN partner institutions.
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Medieval Latin Literature
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