I was delighted and honored – and utterly surprised – to be presented on my recent 70th birthday with a beautiful volume of essays on a wide range of topics treating spiritual culture in the pre-modern North, edited by Jürg Glauser and Pernille Hermann, in collaboration with Stefan Brink and Joseph Harris (with the editorial assistance of Sarah Künzler). Needless to say, I am deeply grateful (and more) to the editors and all those who helped bring this moment about, and to all those who managed to keep this ‘birthday conspiracy’ from being unveiled...
I am very pleased to note that the Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches (De Gruyter, http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/458546) - finally, some might say - appeared at the end of 2018.
From the back cover: In recent years, the field of Memory Studies has emerged as a key approach in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and has increasingly...
The anthology Old Norse Mythology — Comparative Perspectives, ed. Pernille Hermann, Stephen Mitchell and Jens Peter Schjødt (CHS/Harvard University Press) is now available.
Harvard's cooperative Viking Studies venture with Århus University and Moesgård Museum is featured on pp. 8-9 of In situ, available at -- http://archaeology.harvard.edu/files/sca/files/in_situ_11.pdf?m=1463573335
A video produced by Aarhus University for the occasion: stephenmitchell_1_-_wi-fi_copy.mp4 From the Aarhus University webpage— "Professor Stephen A. Mitchell from Harvard University has been appointed honorary doctor at Aarhus University based on his ground-breaking research in the Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia...
Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages is now available from the University of Pennsylvania Press as a paperback and as an ebook, in addition to the traditional hardbound format:
Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4290-4 | $49.95s | £32.50 | Paper Mar 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2255-5 | $24.95s | £16.50 | Ebook 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0371-4 | $24.95s | £16.50 |
The 2012 Radcliffe Seminar, “The Ambiguities of Memory Construction in Medieval Texts: The Nordic Case,” inspired a series of theoretically-oriented essays which have now appeared as Memory and Remembering: Past Awareness in the Medieval North. Special issue of Scandinavian Studies, 85:3. Ed. Pernille Hermann and Stephen A. Mitchell, containing the following essays:
"Constructing the Past. Introductory Remarks" (Pernille Hermann and Stephen Mitchell, pp. 261-66)
“Places, Monuments and Objects. The Past in Ancient Scandinavia” (Anders Andrén, pp. 267-81...
