Anders Winroth (born 1965) is a Swedish medievalist at the

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and previously taught in the same field at

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Life

After graduation from

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, Winroth did his master's and doctoral studies at

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under Robert Somerville, followed by

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at the University of Newcastle, where he was the Sir James Knott Research Fellow and worked with R. I. Moore. Professor Winroth specializes in the history of "medieval Europe, especially religious, intellectual and legal history as well as the Viking Age. He teaches both halves of the survey lecture course in medieval history, seminars in religious, legal, intellectual, and Scandinavian history." He worked on the ''

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'' of

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and discovered that the original version, the so-called "first recension," was only about half the size of the commonly known text. Winroth also has a strong interest in Swedish genealogy. Winroth was a 2003 MacArthur Fellow. He is married to medievalist Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir. She works for the

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and is known for her scholarship on women in the Viking world.

Works

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References

External links

Winroth's personal web site
1965 births Living people Columbia University alumni MacArthur Fellows 20th-century Swedish historians Swedish medievalists Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America 21st-century Swedish historians Academic staff of the University of Oslo People from Ludvika {{Sweden-historian-stub