• Source: Dick Harrison

      • Dick Walther Harrison (born 10 April 1966) is a Swedish historian. He is currently a Professor of History at Lund University.
      His main areas of interest are the European Middle Ages, including the medical history of the period and the history of slavery. Harrison regularly writes articles for the Swedish journal Populär Historia (Popular History). He has also written popular historical works and, during Spring 2010, a blog covering the history of monarchs and monarchies with emphasis on the Swedish monarchy. Harrison regularly gives lectures to the general public on a broad range of historical topics.
      Harrison is the editor-in-chief of a comprehensive series about Swedish history published by Norstedts with the first volume released in September, 2009. The Swedish TV channel TV4 has made a companion television series for which Harrison is the historical consultant and co-host along with Martin Timell. The TV series has 12 episodes of which the first six aired on TV4 during spring 2010. The second set of six episodes aired spring 2011.
      In addition to his historical writing, Harrison has written three historical novels about Ulvbjörn Vamodsson, a 7th-century (fictitious) warrior: Ofärd, Niding and Illdåd.
      Harrison was born in Huddinge, Stockholm County, and spent much of his youth in Staffanstorp in Scania. He married Katarina Lindbergh in 2010.


      Selected bibliography




      = Non-fiction

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      1995 – Europa I världen : medeltiden Europe in the World: Middle Ages
      1997 – Uppror och allianser: politiskt våld i 1400-talets svenska bondesamhälle Revolts and Alliances: Political Violence in 15th Century Swedish Rural Society
      1998 – Skapelsens geografi Geographic Creation: Perceptions of Space and Place in Medieval Europe
      1998 – Age of Abbesses and Queens
      1999 – Krigarnas och helgonens tid: Västeuropas historia 400–800 e.Kr. The Era of Warriors and Saints: Western European History 400-800 A.D.
      1999 – I skuggan av Cathay: västeuropéers möte med Asien 1400–1600 In the Shadow of Cathay: Western Europeans Encounters with Asia 1400-1600
      2000 – Mannen från Barnsdale: historien om Robin Hood och hans legend The Man From Barnsdale: The History of Robin Hood and His Legend
      2000 – Stora döden: den värsta katastrof som drabbat Europa The Black Death: the Worst Disaster to Strike Europe (Received August prize)
      2000 – På Klios fält: essäer om historisk forskning och historieskrivning On Clio's Field: Essays About Historical Research and Writing
      2002 – Jarlens sekel: en berättelse om 1200-talets Sverige The Earl's Century: an Account of 13th Century Sweden (chosen as Swedish history book of the year)
      2002 – Karl Knutsson: En biografi Karl Knutsson: a Biography
      2002 – Sveriges historia – medeltiden Sweden's History: Middle Ages
      2003 – Harrisons historia Harrison's History (textbook)
      2003 – Tankar om historia Thoughts About History (essay collection)
      2003 – Historiebok för kakälskare A Cookie Lovers’ History Book (historical recipes) (Together with Eva Helen Ulvros.)
      2005 – Förrädaren, skökan och självmördaren The Traitor, the Whore and the Suicide: The Story of Judas Iscariot, Mary Magdelen, Pontius Pilate and Joseph of Aramathea
      2005 – Gud vill det! - nordiska korsfarare under medeltiden God's Will: Nordic Crusaders During the Middle Ages
      2006 – Slaveri: Forntiden till renässansen Slavery: Prehistoric to the Renaissance
      2007 – Slaveri: 1500 till 1800 Slavery: 1500 to 1800
      2008 – Slaveri: 1800 till nutid Slavery: 1800 to the present
      2009 – Sveriges historia: 600-1350
      2010 – Sveriges historia: 1350–1600 (with Bo Eriksson)
      2012 – Från en säker källa...
      2013 – 101 föremål ur Sveriges historia (with Katarina Harrison Lindbergh)
      2015 – Slaveriets historia
      2016 – Ett stort lidande har kommit över oss
      2017 – Kalmars historia
      2018 – Englands historia. Del 1, up until 1600
      2018 – Englands historia. Del 2, from 1600 onwards
      2018 – Dalslands historia
      2019 – Trettioåriga kriget
      2019 – Vikingarnas historia
      2020 – Folkvandringstid
      2020 – Sveriges medeltid
      2021 – Sveriges stormaktstid


      = Fiction

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      2007 – Ofärd (Calamity) historical fiction set in 6th century western Europe
      2010 - Niding (Oathbreaker) sequel to Ofärd
      2012 - Illdåd (Misdeed) third book in the Ulvbjörn series


      = Articles

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      "Dark Age Migrations and Subjective Ethnicity: The Example of the Lombards", Scandia 57:1, Lund 1991.
      "The Invisible Wall of St John. On Mental Centrality in Early Medieval Italy", Scandia 58:2, Lund 1992.
      "Plague, Settlement and Structural Change at the Dawn of the Middle Ages", Scandia 59:1, Lund 1993.
      "The Duke and the Archangel: A Hypothetical Model of Early State Integration in Southern Italy through the Cult of Saints", Collegium Medievale vol. 6 1993/1, Oslo 1993.
      "The Early State in Lombard Italy", Rome and the North, eds. A. Ellegård and G. Åkerström-Hougen, Jonsered 1996.
      "Murder and Execution within the Political Sphere in Fifteenth-century Scandinavia", Scandia 1997:2.
      "The Lombards in the Early Carolingian Epoch", in "Karl der Grosse und sein Nachwirken. 1200 Jahre Kultur und Wissenschaft in Europa", hrsgb. P.L. Butzer, M. Kerner und W. Oberschelp, Turnhout 1997.
      "Political Rhetoric and Political Ideology in Lombard Italy", Strategies of Distinction: The Construction of Ethnic Communities, 300–800, eds. W. Pohl and H. Reimitz, Leiden 1998.
      "Patterns of Regionalisation in Early Medieval Italy: a Historical and Methodological Problem", Analecta Romana Instituti Danici 26, Rom 1999.
      "Invisible Boundaries and Places of Power: Notions of Liminality and Centrality in the Early Middle Ages", i The Transformation of Frontiers: from Late Antiquity to the Carolingians, eds. W. Pohl, I. Wood and H. Reimitz, Leiden 2001.
      "The Development of Élites. From Roman Bureaucrats to Medieval Warlords", i Integration und Herrschaft. Ethnische Identitäten und Soziale Organisation im Frühmittelalter, Forschungen zur Geschichte des Mittelalters 3, hrsgb. Walter Pohl och Max Diesenberger, Wien 2002.
      "Structures and Resources of Power in Early Medieval Europe", i The Construction of Communities in the Early Middle Ages: Texts, Resources and Artefacts, eds. R. Corradini, M. Diesenberger and H. Reimitz, Leiden 2002.


      Honours and awards


      1996 The Clio Prize
      2000 The August Prize for non-fiction
      2001 Duke Carl's Prize
      2002 Book of the Year about Swedish History


      Sources

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