Digital Curriculum Vitae for
Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen
MSc in Geography and History, PhD in Medieval History
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Scandinavian Research, Copenhagen University (2009-12)
Email: jggj@hum.ku.dk
Printable Word-version of Full curriculum vitae
If I should try to label myself academically in short terms, I would probably go with the combined title of “medievalist and historical geographer”. My educational background is a master degree (MSc) in Geography and History from the University of Roskilde (2004), after which I have been attached to the Institute of History and Civilization at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense (2005-2008), teaching medieval history and working on a PhD-project on Dominican friars in medieval Denmark. Recently, I have begun a postdoctoral study at the Department of Scandinavian Research at University of Copenhagen on Dominicans in medieval Scandinavia.
My period of historical interest stretches from c. 700 to 1700, with a main preference for the high Middle Ages, whereas I geographically tend to focus on northern and north-western Europe. Basicly, all topics within this period and area are - or could be - of interest to me, but until now, my main fields of study have been monastic and ecclesiastical history, together with settlement history and agricultural history.
Before I began my university education at Roskilde in 1998, I have worked with communication, sales, marketing and economy, during which I acquired a graduate diploma in market economy (HD-A) from the Copenhagen School of Business and Economics in 1995. After several years of studying and working with trade and economy, my interest turned towards commercial history combined with the social and human-geographical structures and changes in north-western Europe and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages, including the interface between physical-geographical factors and culture-historical development. Thus, the hybrid disciplin of Historical geography has constituted the settings for several of my graduate projects at Roskilde University, conclusively in my master’s thesis “Middelalderens landbrug og bebyggelse : en statistisk-geografisk undersøgelse af landbrugs- og bebyggelsesforholdene i NV-Sjælland gennem vikingetid, middelalder og tidlig moderne tid”, which earned me a master degree in the summer of 2004. Whereas my actual thesis is written in Danish, an abbreviated version has been translated to English in 2005: Agriculture and Settlement in Medieval and Early Modern Zealand : A historical-geographical survey of Danish agriculture and settlement conditions, c.1000-1688. The latter is now available in a website version in English. The main part of my thesis is published as an integrated part of a Historical-Geographical Atlas from 2008 (in Danish).
As a postgraduate, I was working as a research assistant at the Institute of Geography, University of Roskilde, during the winter 2004-2005 on a series of geographical land surveys in relation to plans on establishing a number of national parks around the country - in my case in the northernmost part of Zealand. The proposed national park, “Kongernes Nordsjælland”, was approved by the Danish parliament in January 2008, but is still awaiting implementation.
From
the beginning of 2005 to the beginning of 2008, I have been granted a PhD-scholarship at the Institute
of History and Civilization, University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
My now submitted and defended PhD-project is a study
of “The
rôle of the Friars Preachers
in medieval Danish society”.
The
idea of the
project
is to look into the societal functions of the Friars Preachers in high- and late
medieval Denmark based on a systematic registration and consideration of all
written and archaeological sources on the matter. As an important part of the
study, the Danish material has been supplemented by similar studies of sources
from the remaining Scandinavia, together with available research literature
on the life and work of the Order of Preachers in the rest of Northern Europe.
By performing such a new and systematic study of the Danish material
supplemented with knowledge and theses from our neighbouring countries, it is my hope and aim to increase our insight and understanding on questions such as
why the Friars Preachers came here in the first place, what societal functions
they performed, and how their role in society might have changed from the time
of their first Danish convent foundation in 1222 to the Reformation in 1536. A
more detailed presentation of my PhD-project together with some of my earlier
Dominican studies are available on the links below, together with a pdf-version of the
full dissertation in Danish.
My work on Nordic Dominicans of the Middle Ages will continue in 2009-2012, where I have been granted a postdoctoral fellowship by The Danish Research Council for a two-year study on “Dominicans in Dacia - The role of Friars Preachers in medieval Scandinavian society” with affiliation to the Department of Scandinavian Research at University of Copenhagen; the department has kindly added a third year to the fellowship, in which I take part in the project “Digital Atlas of Denmark's Historical-Administrative Structure” (DigDag) as a consultant on the period before 1688.
Even
though my PhD-work mainly has taken place within traditional source history,
my roots in historical geography are not completely denied. Firstly, I have
mapped the actual locations of the Dominican priories within the medieval towns’ geography; and
secondly, I have enlarged a digitised, nation-wide mapping of the
Dominican priories to include priories and monasteries of all religious order
within medieval Denmark (including Scania, Southern Schleswig, and Rügen). The
digitalisation has been performed in the G.I.S.-program ArcView 3.1, and it is
available for free download and use for anyone interested in monastic geography
of medieval Denmark. Via the links below one can find a presentation of this KlosterGIS
DK, a clickable map with a catalogue of all the convents, and, of course,
a link to the actual download of the G.I.S.-data; it should be noted, though,
that all of these are in Danish only.
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Digitalisation of medieval geodata is also the topic of my recent and current work at the Name Research Section, University of Copenhagen, where I in 2008-09 has worked as a scientific assistant on a project regarding a digitalisation of place-names in Denmark, and now as part of my postdoctoral fellowship is related to the project DigDag, where I as a consultant for the digitalisation of geodata work with Danish parish structures before 1688.
List of publications (some with links to website versions or abstracts)
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2012): “Dacia”, on the website ‘Månedens navn’, Name Research Section, University of Copenhagen. English version “Why Dacia?” on the website Centre for Dominican Studies of Dacia.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2011): “High medieval magnate farms in north-west Sjælland, Denmark: Analyses of magnate farms in an east Danish region, c. 1100-1400”, in: ‘Settlement and Lordship in Viking and Early Modern Scandinavia’, eds. B. Poulsen & S. Sindbæk, Turnhout, 185-194.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2011): “Johannes” and “Andeby”, on the website ‘Månedens navn’, Name Research Section, University of Copenhagen.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2011): “Monastic »islands« in medieval Denmark: Insular isolation in ideal and practice”, in: ‘Isolated Islands in Medieval Nature, Culture and Mind - The Muhu Proceedings 2’ (CEU Medievalia vol. 14), ed. T. Jørgensen & G. Jaritz, Budapest, 36-44.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2010): “Mapping mendicant monasteries in medieval urban geography”, in: ‘Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Historical Geographers, Kyoto 2009’, eds. Kinda A., Komeie T., Minamide S., Mizoguchi T. & Uesugi K., Kyoto, 111-112.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2010): Review of Daniel Hobbins, “Authorship and Publicity Before Print - Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning”, in: ‘Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation’ vol. 5:1, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 140-142.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2010): “Hvornår oprettedes dominikanerklosteret i Haderslev? - En genopdaget indskrift bekræfter en formodning om prædikebrødrenes ankomst” [When was the Dominican priory in Haderslev founded?], in: ‘Kirkehistoriske Samlinger’ 2010, Selskabet for Danmarks Kirkehistorie, Copenhagen, 197-204.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2010): “-ville vikinger i Normandiet - Normanniske stednavne som kilde til vikingernes tilstedeværelse” [-ville Vikings in Normandy - Normannic place-names as evidence of Viking presence], in: ‘Otteogtyvende tværfaglige vikingesymposium’, Hikuin, Højbjerg, 21-34.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig & Peder Dam (2010): “Nordvestsjællands kystbebyggelse fra vikingetid til ca. 1700” [Coastal settlement in northwestern Zealand from the Viking Age to around 1700], in: ‘Kystkultur - Fra Nordvestsjælland 2009’, Historisk Samfund for Nordvestsjælland, Holbæk, 11-45.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2010): “Antvorskov Kloster”, “Børglum Kloster”, “Dueholm Kloster”, “Esrum Kloster”, “Helsingør Skt. Mariæ Kloster”, “Mariager Kloster”, “Odense Adelige Jomfrukloster”, “Ribe Skt. Katharinæ Kloster”, “Vitskøl Kloster (Bjørnsholm)”, “Ø Kloster (Oksholm)”, “Øm Kloster”, “Aalborg Gråbrødrekloster” and “Aalborg Helligåndskloster”, on the website ‘1001 fortællinger om Danmark’, Kulturarvsstyrelsen.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2009): “St. Hyacinth and Dacia - The Dominican «Apostle of the North» and His Relation to Scandinavia: Knowledge, Possibilities and Historical Traditions”, in: ‘Seminatore della Parola - San Giacinto Odrowaz apostolo del Nord Europa’, eds. R. Fusco & A. Nocon, Todi, 107-122.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2009): “Skt. Salomons Kapel - mulige spor efter dominikanere på middelalderens Bornholm” [The Chapel of St. Salomon - possible traces of Dominicans on medieval Bornholm], in: ‘Bornholmske Samlinger’ 2009, 118-143.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2009): “»Den gennemsnitlige torp« - Eksempler på statistiske og spatiale analysemetoder til regionale studier af torp-bebyggelser” ["The average torp" - Examples of statistical and spatial methods of analysis for regional studies of torp-settlements], in: ‘Torp - som ortnamn och bebyggelse’, report from the interdisciplinary torp-conference in Malmö 25-26.04.2007, eds. P. Dam & al., Lund, 167-185.
Dam, Peder, Peder Gammeltoft, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen, Bo Nissen Knudsen & Ola Svensson [eds.] (2009): “Torp - som ortnamn och bebyggelse” [Torp as place-name and settlement], report from the interdisciplinary torp-conference in Malmö 25-26.04.2007, ‘Skrifter utgivna av Dialekt- och Ortnamnsarkivet i Lund’ vol. 11, Lund.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2009): “»De tiggermunke fare omkring...« - om dominikansk og franciskansk terminering blandt middelalderens landboere” [»Them Friars Dash About...« - on Dominican and Franciscan terminatione among medieval country people], in: ‘Landbohistorisk Tidsskrift’ 2009:1, Landbohistorisk Selskab, 9-50. With English summary.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2008): “Dominikanske klosterhelgener i Norden - nordiske helgennavne hos dominikanerne” [Dominican patron saints in the North - Nordic saint names among the Dominicans], in: ‘Nordiske namn - Namn i Norden. Tradition och förnyelse’, report from NORNA's 14th congress in Borgarnes 11-14.08.2007, eds. G. Kvaran & al., Uppsala 2008, 235-248. With English summary.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2008): “KlosterGIS DK : Digitalt atlas over klostre i middelalderens Danmark” [KlosterGIS DK : Digital atlas of monasteries in medieval Denmark], in: ‘HisKIS Årsskrift 2008’, web publication on www.hiskis.net, 32-58.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2008): “Naturgeografi og historisk regionalitet” [Physical geography and historical regionality], in: ‘Regionalitet i Danmark i vikingetid og middelalder : Tværfagligt symposium på Aarhus Universitet 26. januar 2007’ (= ‘ hikuin’ vol. 35), eds. P. Gammeltoft & al., Højbjerg, 15-34.
Dam, Peder & Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen (2008): “Historisk-Geografisk Atlas” [Historical-Geographical Atlas], ‘Atlas over Danmark’ vol. 7, Det Kongelige Danske Geografiske Selskab & Geografforlaget, Copenhagen.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2008): “Helligkilder i Nordvestsjælland” [Holy springs in northwestern Zealand], appendix to 'Da Himmelen kom nærmere - fortællinger om Danmarks kristning 700-1300' , by Brian Patrick McGuire, Copenhagen, 239-244.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2007): “The role of Friars Preachers in medieval Danish society” (Summary of PhD-thesis), in: 'Dominican History Newsletter' vol. 16, Institutum Historicum Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum, Romae, 32-37.
Dam, Peder & Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen (2007): “Danske middelalderlige rydningsbebyggelser” [Clearance settlements of medieval Denmark], in: ‘Nordiske navnes centralitet og regionalitet’, report from the 35th NORNA symposium at Bornholm 04-07.05.2006, eds. B. Eggert & al., Uppsala 2007, 35-59. With English summary.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2007): “Broder Johannes Nyborg. Fokus på Roskildes dominikanske biskop” [Frater Johannes Nyborg. Focus on Roskilde’s Dominican bishop], in: 'Historisk Årbog for Roskilde Amt' 2007, Historisk Samfund for Roskilde Amt, 151-164.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2007): “Dominikanerne i Västergötland - Konventerne i Skara og (Gamla) Lödöse betragtet som en del af Prædikantordenens nordiske provins Dacia” [The Dominicans in Western Götaland - The convents of Skara and (Old) Lödöse seen as part of the Order of Preachers’ Nordic province Dacia], in: 'Kloster och klosterliv i det medeltida Skara stift', ed. J. Hagberg, Skara stiftshistoriska sällskap, Skara, 159-184.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2006): “Om det dominikanske prædikebrødrekloster i Roskilde” [On the Dominican Friars Preachers’ Priory in Roskilde], in: 'Historisk Årbog for Roskilde Amt' 2006, Historisk Samfund for Roskilde Amt, 59-92.
Dam, Peder & Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen (2006): “Danske sted-bebyggelser - en bebyggelsesgeografisk undersøgelse af to danske sted-bygder (Midtsjælland og Vendsyssel)” [Danish sted-settlements : a settlement-geographical survey of two Danish sted-areas], in: 'Busetnadsnamn på -staðir', Report from the 33rd NORNA symposium at Utstein Monastery, 7.-9.5.2004, eds. I. Særheim & al., Norna-Förlaget, Uppsala, 39-68. With English summary.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2006): “»How about those Vikings?« - Historiske glimt fra vikingetidens Britiske Øer” [»How about those Vikings?« - Historical glimpses from the British Isles in the Viking Age], in: 'Rubicon' 2006:2, Syddansk Universitet, 14-45.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2005): “The Dominican priory and convent of medieval Roskilde, Denmark”, in: 'Dominican History Newsletter' vol. 14, Institutum Historicum Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum, Romae, 257-278. (PDF-version)
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2005): “Landbrug i 1600-tallets Nordvestsjælland - Et eksempel på regionalkomparativ analyse af matriklerne 1662 og 1688” [Agriculture in seventeenth-century NW-Zealand : An example of regional-comparative analysis on the Land Registers of 1662 and 1688], in: 'Landbohistorisk Tidsskrift’ 2005:2, Landbohistorisk Selskab, 9-44. (Based on chapter 3 of my master’s thesis.)
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2004): “Kirkerne på Tuse Næs - Variationer i middelalderens kirkebyggeri” [The churches of Cape Tuse - Differences in medieval church-building], in: 'Fra Holbæk Amt - Årbog for kulturhistorien i Holbæk Amt’ 2004, Historisk Samfund for Holbæk Amt, 123-141.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2003): “The Dominican History of Scandinavia (1): The Dominican Convents in Medieval Norway”, in: 'Dominican History Newsletter' vol. 12, Institutum Historicum Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum, Romae, 211-221.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig, Peder Dam & Laura Hedemand (2003): “Torperne - marginale udflytterbebyggelser eller begunstigede agerbrugsbyer?” [The thorpes - marginal outlying farms or favoured agricultural settlements?], in: ’Bol og By. Landbohistorisk Tidsskrift’ 2003:1-2, Landbohistorisk Selskab, Odense, 101-131.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2003): “Da prædikebrødrene kom til Holbæk - Om de mulige bevæggrunde og samtidspolitiske forhold bag en dominikansk klosterstiftelse på Sjælland i starten af senmiddelalderen” [When the Friars Preachers came to Holbaek - On the possible reasons and conditions behind a Dominican foundation on Zealand in the beginning of the Late Middle Ages], in: 'Kirkehistoriske Samlinger' 2003, Selskabet for Danmarks Kirkehistorie, Copenhagen, 7-35. (Summary in English.)
Hedemand, Laura, Peder Dam & Johnny Gøgsig Jakobsen (2003): “De danske torp-landsbyers jordbundsforhold” [The soil conditions in the Danish torp-villages], in: 'Nordiske torp-navne', Report from the 31st NORNA symposium in Jaruplund, 25.-28.4.2002, eds. P. Gammeltoft & B. Jørgensen, Norna-Förlaget, Uppsala, 95-108. (Summary in English.)
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2002): “The Priory of the Black Friars in Holbæk”, in: 'Dominican History Newsletter' vol. 11, Institutum Historicum Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum, Romae, 296-299.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2002): “Da Stavns Fjord skulle drænes - glimt fra forarbejdet til inddæmningen af Stavns Fjord på Samsø” [When Stavns Fiord was to be drained - glimpses from the planning and preparation of the draining of Stavns Fiord on Samsø], in: 'Århus Stifts Årbøger' 2002, Historisk Samfund for Århus Stift, Århus, 73-86.
Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig (2001): “Abbed Vilhelms idealer - Det viktorinsk-augustinske syn på klosterlivets formål og idealer i højmiddelalderens Danmark” [The Ideals of Abbot William - The Victorine-Augustinian view upon the purpose and ideals of monastic life in high medieval Denmark], in: 'Kirkehistoriske Samlinger' 2001, Selskabet for Danmarks Kirkehistorie, Copenhagen, 7-36. (Summary in English.)
Dam, Peder & Johnny Jakobsen (2000): “De hatformige bakkers underlag” [What is beneath the »hat-shaped hills« of Denmark?], in: 'Geologisk Tidsskrift' 2000:1, Dansk Geologisk Forening, Copenhagen, 1-2.
Illustrations for publications of others
Map of the legal-administrative organization of medieval Denmark. In: ‘Mittelalterliches nordisches Recht bis 1500 - Eine Quellenkunde’ (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexicon der Germanischen Alterkumskunde 73), by Dieter Strauch, Berlin & New York 2011, 284-285.
14 maps of medieval Denmark, Portugal and Europe. In: ‘Korstog ved verdens yderste rand - Danmark og Portugal ca. 1000 til ca. 1250’ [Crusading at the Edge of the World - Denmark and Portugal c. 1000 to c. 1250], by Kurt Villads Jensen, Odense 2011, 13-26.
Map of Baltic region around 1200. In: ‘Large castles and large war machines in Denmark and the Baltic around 1200 - an early military revolution?’, article by Kurt Villads Jensen in Revista de História das Ideias vol. 30, Coimbra 2009, 181 and 187.
Map of Cistercian monasteries in Europe around 1153. In: ‘Den første europæer : Bernard af Clairvaux’ [The first European : Bernard of Clairvaux], by Brian Patrick McGuire, Copenhagen 2009, 17.
Map of monasteries in medieval Denmark. In: ‘Korstog og Klosterliv - omkring Børglum Kloster’ [Crusades and monastic life - around Børglum Monastery], eds. Marianne Corfitsen & Jørgen Jørgensen, Frederikshavn 2008, 35.
Map of Paris in the times of Jean Gerson (1363-1429) and of his journeys in Europe. In: ‘Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation’, by Brian Patrick McGuire, The Pennsylvania State University Press 2005, x and xviii.
Papers at international conferences (Map of conference venues)
“Lectores et predicatores - Dominican friars as teachers and carriers of knowledge in medieval Scandinavia”, paper given at the workshop ‘Hierarchy of knowledge, religious authority and status - The library of mendicant orders in its historical context’, Universität Düsseldorf Schloss Mickeln (Germany), 11.-12.12.2011.
“Beggars in silky
robes and palaces: Dominican practising and preaching poverty in medieval
Northern Europe”, paper given at the workshop ‘Mendicant culture and
devotion in Italy, 1250-1450’, Monash University Prato Centre (Italy),
05.12.2011.
“Monastic studies of medieval Denmark and Scandinavia - a historiography with examples from an ongoing study of the Dominicans”, paper given at the colloquium ‘Themen und Tendenzen der Mittelalterforschung’, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany), 24.11.2011.
Organizing of conferences, seminars and sessions
“Preachers of Poverty - Dominican mediation between Poor and Rich in the Middle Ages”, Centre for Dominican Studies of Dacia, session held at the International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds 12 July 2011.
“Monks on the Move - Religious travelling in and from medieval Scandinavia”, Centre for Dominican Studies of Dacia, session held at the International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds, 12-15 July 2010.
“Udskiftningskort og Original-1-kort ca. 1780-1822 : Hvad kan kortene bruges til i dag?”, HisKIS, Copenhagen, 23 October 2008.
“Interdisciplinary torp-conference”, Torp-forum, Malmö, 25-27 April 2007.
Participation in research fora and scholarly steering committees
In connection with my year-long interest for medieval agriculture and settlement, I have obtained several contacts to scholars of similar interest within the schools of history and geography, but also from related disciplines such as archaeology and place-name studies. Based on this, a fellow Roskilde student Peder Dam and I took initiative in 2003 to the establishing of an interdisciplinary and informal research group called “Torp-forum” with biannual meetings and the participation of a number of the leading scholars in Denmark and Scania within the fields of place-name studies, archaeology, settlement history and agricultural history, whom all have a common - although for some rather peripheral - interest in Scandinavian torp-settlements. The forum arranged an open Interdisciplinary torp-conference on the 25-27 April 2007 in Malmö. An anthology with papers from the conference and the preceding forums, “Torp - som ortnamn och bebyggelse”, has been published in 2009. At the book presentation in Lund 2010, I gave a lecture in Danish on the historiography of the dating of thorps (“Torpernes datering - En forskningshistorik fra 1706 og frem til idag”).
In the period 2006-09, I have participated in the board of Historisk Samfund for Nordvestsjælland (Historical Society for North-Western Zealand), a society, which has existed since 1906-07 as a co-operative community of museums and local-historical archives in north-western Zealand, together with all other individuals interested in the history of the region - such as myself. The main task of the board is to take care of the edition and publication of the society yearbook “Fra Nordvestsjælland”, with numerous articles on cultural history of the region. Although from 2009 no longer a board member, I am still member of the society.
I have also joined the board of the Center for Middelalderstudier (Centre for Medieval Studies) at the University of Southern Denmark, which is an interdisciplinary forum for the university’s historians, philologists, ethnologists, archaeologist, etcetera, with a special interest for studies of the Middle Ages. The centre arranges open meetings and seminars, publish medieval-related publications, and keeps contact to similar centres in Denmark and abroad.
In 2008 I have entered the organizing group of HisKIS (Historical Cartographic Informations System), which is an interdisciplinary and trans-institutional network in Denmark existing since 2001 with the purpose of increasing the knowledge of historical maps, aerial photos and historical geodata, and to promote scientific use of historical-cartographical source material in general. This has mainly been carried out by arranging a number of conferences, seminars and workshops. Furthermore, an important part of HisKIS’ overall aim is to create scholarly contact between people using historical maps and geodata in Denmark, and to register, collect and eventually give web access to digital mappings of historical geodata. Personally, I have mainly been involved with digitalization of medieval geodata. In addition to this, I was the co-organizer of a seminar on the practical usage and possibilities of Danish land-register maps from c.1780-1822, which took place in Copenhagen in October 2008.
Since
2008, I have been a member of Landbohistorisk
Selskab, a society aiming to endorse knowledge and research in the
rural history of Denmark by organizing seminars and publishing books on rural
history - including the peer-reviewed biannual journal Landbohistorisk
Tidsskrift.
In 2010, I have joined the international research network Ménestrel, which presently involves medieval scholars from thirty nations around the world, although especially in Europe. The objective of the network is to endorse medievalist research through creation of scholarly networks across the borders and to help produce an increased overview of medievalism practised in each member country, first and foremost based on the Internet. As the Danish representative of the network, it is my job to produce and maintain a Danish site under the Ménestrel website with a hyperlinked list of all Danish websites related to scholarly medievalism; an ambitious task, on which I have just begun.
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Awards and scholarships
Together with my fellow student in Roskilde, Peder Dam, I received Rockwool-Legatet 2003, an award given each year at the University of Roskilde to students, who have shown “an extraordinary vocational, committed, and original study effort”. Along with the award comes DKKK 25,000, donated by Rockwool International Ltd., which for my half part were used on study trips to the universities of Ghent and Belfast related to the writing of my thesis.
In connection with my appointment as a PhD-student at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) for the period 2005-08, I have been granted a three-years scholarship for the writing of my dissertation on the Dominicans in medieval Denmark. The scholarship is donated by The Danish Research Council of the Humanities to be distributed by the Faculty of Humanities at SDU.
In the Autumn of 2008, I have been granted a postdoctoral fellowship by The Danish Research Council of Culture & Communication for a two-years study on Dominicans in medieval Scandinavia with affiliation to the University of Copenhagen.
Together
with my friend and colleague of interest throughout the graduate years, Peder
Dam, I have tried to implement the use of G.I.S.-technology on various old
established research areas in History, Geography and Geology. An example of this
is the digitalization of the so-called “countings of indicator boulders”
(Danish: ledeblokketællinger) performed by Danish geologists Vilhelm and Kjeld
Milthers in the first half of the twentieth century. With G.I.S., we also tried
to analyse these old sets of data for new geological knowledge.
Working
as a part time secretary for the parish vicar on Tuse Næs north of Holbæk in
the later part of my university study (2003-04), I have had the opportunity to collect and
present what is known about the history of our two local churches of Udby and
Hørby. The information is both available in two small locally distributed
brochures and on the website links below. They are, however, only available in
Danish.
Presentation of my family
Finally, all there is left to tell is that I live on an organic farm in Sakskøbing on Lolland with my lovely girlfriend Sascha and our fantastic son Theodor.
