Elizabeth Ashman Rowe is an American historian and author who specializes in the study of the history and culture of the

Viking Age The Viking Age (about ) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. The Viking Age applies not only to their ...

Biography

Elizabeth Ashman Rowe received her BA

magna cum laude Latin honors are a system of Latin phrases used in some colleges and universities to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned. The system is primarily used in the United States. It is also used in some Sout ...

and her

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from

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

, with the dissertation, ''Fables in the best of sagas: Studies in the genre of the Old Norse mythic-heroic saga''. She subsequently taught

medieval In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with the fall of the West ...

literature, medieval history, and medieval

palaeography Palaeography (American and British English spelling differences#ae and oe, UK) or paleography (American and British English spelling differences#ae and oe, US) (ultimately from , , 'old', and , , 'to write') is the study and academic disciplin ...

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

, the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

, and the

University of Massachusetts Lowell The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell and UML) is a Public university, public research university in Lowell, Massachusetts, with a satellite campus in Haverhill, Massachusetts. It is the northernmost member of the University of M ...

. Since 2008, Rowe has been Lecturer in

Scandinavian History The history of Scandinavia is the history of the geographical region of Scandinavia and Scandinavians, its peoples. The region is located in Northern Europe, and consists of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Finland and Iceland are at times, especial ...

at the

Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNC or, informally, ASNaC) is one of the constituent departments of the University of Cambridge, and focuses on the history, material culture, languages and literatures of the various peoples who ...

, and the leader of the medieval section of the International Manuscript Summer School. She is a Fellow of

Clare Hall, Cambridge Clare Hall is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1966 by Clare College, Clare Hall is a college for advanced study, admitting only postgraduate students alongside postdoctoral researchers and fellows. It was est ...

and the

Society of Antiquaries of London The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society of historians and archaeologists in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1707, received its royal charter in 1751 and is a Charitable organization, registered charity. It is based ...

. She specializes in the study of history and culture Medieval

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

and Medieval

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. She has published a number of articles and encyclopedia entries, and several books, including ''The Medieval Annals of Iceland'', ''The Development of Flateyjarbók: Iceland and the Norwegian Dynastic Crisis of 1389'' and ''Ragnarr Loðbrók in Medieval Icelandic Historiography''. She has been an expert commentator on several programs about

Vikings Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.Roesdahl, pp. 9� ...

, including on

BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...

and

The History Channel History (formerly and commonly known as the History Channel) is an American pay television network and the flagship channel of A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and the General Entertainment Content division of The Wa ...

. Rowe was a Historical Consultant and writer for the video game Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.

Selected works

* ''The Development of Flateyjarbók: Iceland and the Norwegian Dynastic Crisis of 1389'', 2005 * ''Vikings in the West : The Legend of Ragnarr Loðbrók and His Sons'', 2012

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rowe, Elizabeth Ashman Living people Academics of the University of Cambridge American expatriates in the United Kingdom American women historians Cornell University alumni Fellows of Clare Hall, Cambridge Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Old Norse studies scholars Scandinavian studies scholars Stanford University faculty University of California, Berkeley faculty University of Massachusetts Lowell faculty Writers on Germanic paganism Year of birth missing (living people) Historians from California 21st-century American women