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This is an exemplary and wonderfully coherent collection of essays. It offers outstanding testimony to the intellectual vibrancy of scholarship on the European Middle Ages. Its thematic coherence is underpinned by a wide range of innovative and insightful approaches to the study of culture and intellectual life, fruitfully combining several strands of enquiry that all too often have been kept separate by the conventions of contemporary academe. The book successfully challenges simplistic paradigms of centre and periphery, and firmly establishes the Danish and Scandinavian example as central participant in a wider community of Latin European networks, norms, and practices. It constitutes a fitting tribute to Karsten Friis-Jensen and should be required reading for anyone interested in the religious, literary and intellectual culture of medieval Europe. -- Bjorn Weiler, Aberystwyth University

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Mia Munster-Swendsen received a Cand. Mag. degree in history and her doctorate from the University of Copenhagen in 2000 and 2004 respectively. She held various teaching and research posts at the University of Copenhagen and was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Historical Research, University of London, and the University of Saint Andrews before being appointed to a professorial chair at Roskilde University in 2013. She has published widely on medieval intellectual history, both Danish and continental. Thomas K. Heeboll-Holm is an assistant professor at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. He received a doctorate in medieval history from the University of Copenhagen in 2011, where he was also research assistant and later a post-doctoral fellow. In 2012 he was appointed project director of ""Danish Historical Writing before 1225 and Its Intellectual Context in Medieval Europe,"" sponsored by The Danish Council for Independent Research - Humanities (FKK). Sigbjorn Olsen Sonnesyn received a Cand. Philol. degree in history, English, and Latin as well as a doctorate in history from the University of Bergen in 2002 and 2007 respectively. He has been a lecturer and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bergen, and also held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen from 2011 to 2014. He is currently a post-doctoral research assistant in the History Department at Durham University.

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