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Denmark and the Crusading Movement
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Curriculum vitae
Born 1971. Cand.mag. in history of ideas and history from University of Aarhus 1997. Various teaching positions here from 1996-1998. Ph.D. fellowship at University of Southern Denmark 1999-2002. Visiting student at University of Chicago 2000. Ph.D.-thesis defended June 2004.
Publications
"Indulgence, Satisfaction, and the Heart's Contrition in 12th Century Crusading Theology" i Medieval History Writing and Crusading Ideology, ed. Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen & Kurt Villads Jensen, Finnish Litterature Society, Helsinki, 2005, p. 85-93
Danske korstog. Krig og mission i Østersøen. With John H. Lind, Carsten Selch Jensen and Kurt Villads Jensen, 2004
"Korstogsafladens opståen og teoretiske udvikling" in Den Jyske Historiker nr. 89, Århus 2000, p. 30-47
"Om teologien bag Venderkorstogene" in Venderne og Danmark, ed. Carsten Selch Jensen, Kurt Villads Jensen, John Lind, Odense 2000, p. 13-20
"Om tankerne bag Anders Sunesens Hexaemeron" in Anders Sunesen. Danmark og Verden i 1200-tallet, ed. Kurt Villads Jensen, Odense 1998, p. 53-74
Reviews related to crusade studies
Review of Karen Skovgaard-Petersen: A Journey to the Promised Land: Crusading Theology in the Historia de profectione Danorum in Hierosolymam (c. 1200). (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2001) in Crusades 1: 2, 2003
Forthcomming
Review of The Deeds of Pope Innocent III by an Anonymous Author, Translated with an introduction and notes by James M. Powell. (The Catholic University of America Press, 2004) in Crusades
In Merit as Well as in Reward. Indulgences, Spiritual Merit, and the Theology of the Crusades, c. 1095-1216
"Crusading Ideology and Imitatio Christi in Anders Sunesen, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Innocent III"
"Crusade Preaching in the North at the Time of the Fifth Crusade"
Papers and lectures on crusades
"Gud ville det - korstog og korstogsteologi", Folkeuniversitetet i Roskilde, 14/4 2005
"Crusade Preaching in the North at the Time of the Fifth Crusade", Medieval Symposium: Christianization of the North - Theology and Archeology, Odense 15/11 2005
"'Prisen er lille, belønningen er stor', om korstogsprædikener til og med 5. korstog", Symposiet Land og By i Middelalderen, 30/10 2005
"Korstogene og afladstanken", Roskilde Universitetscenter, 16/9 2005
"Crusading Ideology and Imitatio Christi in Anders Sunesen, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Innocent III", Institut finlandais de Paris, 10/6 2005
"Gud ville det - korstog og korstogsteologi", Folkeuniversitetet i Odense, 14/4 2005
"Korsfarere og Kristi stridsmænd", Ældresagen i Århus, 15/11 2004
"Crusade Indulgences in Twelfth Century Theology: the Spirit of the Spiritual Privilege", SSCLE conference, Istanbul 26/8 2004
"Cistercienserne og Korstogene", Øm klostermuseum 3/6 2004
"Korsfarernes åndelige løn", Folkeuniversitetet i Odense 25/2 2004
"Korstogene - middelalderens hellige krige", Amtscenteret for undervisning i Viborg Amt 26/2 2004
"Korsfarernes åndelige løn", Folkeuniversitetet i Ålborg 25/2 2004
"Korsfarernes åndelige løn", Folkeuniversitetet i Århus 1/12 2003
Foredragsrække om korstogene på Folkeuniversitetet i Odense, efterår 2003
"The Formation of the Theology of the Crusade Indulgences: The Spirit of the Spiritual Privilege, c. 1095-1216", International Medieval Congress 2003, University of Leeds 16/7 2003
"Toward a ’Danish’ Crusade Theology: Archbishop Anders Sunesen on Taking the Cross to Follow Christ", 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo 3/5 2002
"Det hellige kors og den hellige krig", Skanderborg kirkecenter 12/3 2002
"'Den som vil følge mig til kronen, han skal også følge mig til kampen' - om aflad og åndelig løn for korstog", Symposiet Land og By i Middelalderen 2001, 27/10 2001
"The theology of the Baltic Crusades: 'Imitatio Christi' in the Works and Deeds of Archbishop Anders Sunesen", International Medieval Congress 2001, University of Leeds, 11/7 2001
"The Crusade in the History of Salvation", Forskerkursus, Det Finske Institut og Det Danske Institut, Rom 12/1 2001
"The Theology of the Crusades", Medieval Workshop, University of Chicago, 29/11 2000
"Indulgence, Satisfaction, and the Heart’s Contrition in 12th Century Crusading Theology", International Medieval Congress 2000, University of Leeds, 11/7 2000
"Korstog og afladsteologi", Ålborg Universitet, 29/3 2000
"Menneskesyn i middelalderen", Seminar for danske historiestuderende, Odense Universitet, 17/3 2000
"The idea of crusading. Developments in theology in the times of the Crusades. Fighting for salvation", Renval instituttet, Helsingfors, 18/2 2000,
"Teologien bag venderkorstogene", Seminar om Venderne og Danmark, Odense Universitet, 2/12 1999,
"Korstog og afladsteologi", Københavns Universitet 9/11 1999
"Teologien bag korstogene", Tværfag, Århus Universitet, 25/10 1999
"Korstog og aflad", Teologisk forening, Århus Universitet, 12/10 1999,
"Korstogsideologi og korstogsteologi", Seminar, Ålborg Universitet, 8/9 1999
Ph.D. project, completed in 2004: In Merit as Well as in Reward. Indulgences, Spiritual Merit, and the Theology of the Crusades, c. 1095-1216
One feature which defined the crusades particularly in distinction to other wars was the opportunity for the warriors to win a spiritual reward, the indulgence. This is why the grant of crusade indulgences has become intrinsic to the new, pluralist definition of crusades, which has gained wide acceptance among historians over the last 30 years, and according to which also e.g. the campaigns in the Baltic were crusades. The crusade indulgences were the institutionalization of the idea that fighting for Christ and the Church was meritorious in the sight of God and thus worthy of a spiritual reward proclaimed by the Church. This project aims to study the crusade indulgences both under the aspect of their evolution as an institution in the period c. 1095-1216, and under the aspect of the theology of the crusades. What was the grant of indulgences meant to signify, and what does that tell us about the ideas of those who proclaimed the crusades, and about the general ideology or theology of the crusades? The focus of the project is the attitudes of the Church hierarchy and the learned theologians and how they argued that warfare could be meritorious.
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