Contributors

Henrik Ågren is a Professor of History at Uppsala University, Sweden. Among his different areas of research, a key focus is early modern Swedish social and cultural history. Within this field, his English-language publications include ‘Causes of change in early modern Swedish history writing: a medieval saint king viewed by Reformation and Enlightenment era historians’, Storia della Storiografia, 72 (2013), and ‘Gustav Vasa and the Erikmas in Uppsala: a question of the source for political symbolic value’, in Steffen Hope and others (eds), Life and Cult of Cnut the Holy: The First Royal Saint of Denmark (Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2019).

Arne Bugge Amundsen is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Oslo. Recent publications include ‘The Nordic Zion: the coronation of Christian III, King of Denmark–Norway, in 1537’ and ‘Christiania – Jerusalem or Babel? Conflicts on religious topography in seventeenth-century Norway’, both in Eivor Andersen Oftestad and Joar Haga (eds), Tracing the Jerusalem Code (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2021). See also ‘The Middle Ages in the construction of nineteenth-century Norway’, in Jürg Glauser and others (eds), Myth, Magic, and Memory in Early Scandinavian Narrative Culture (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021).

Ralf Hemmingsen is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Copenhagen, where he served as Vice-Chancellor between 2005 and 2017. His recent contributions to the field of history include ‘Common sense, no magic: a case study of female child murderers in the eighteenth century’, Sjuttonhundratal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 15 (2018), and ‘Var hun from eller sindssyg?’, Kirkehistoriske Samlinger (2019).

Jesper Jakobsen is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, and the division for Book History, Lund University. Recent publications include ‘Commercial newspaper and public shame pole: exposure of individuals in the Copenhagen gazette “Adresseavisen” 1759–73’, in Sari Nauman and Helle Vogt (eds), Private/Public in Eighteenth-Century Scandinavia (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).

Rolv Nøtvik Jakobsen holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Oslo and is an independent scholar based in Norway. His recent works include Gunnerus og nordisk vitenskapshistorie (Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press, 2015) and ‘Toleration, anti-Catholicism and Protestantism: Ludvig Holberg and the eighteenth century politics of religious toleration’, in Silvert Angel and others (eds), Were We Ever Protestants? Essays in Honour of Tarald Rasmussen (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019).

Anders Jarlert is a Senior Professor of Church History at Lund University, Sweden. Recent studies include the edited volume Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Biographies: Research, Results, and Reading (Stockholm: Kungliga Vitterhets- historie- och antikvitetsakademien, 2017) and ‘De-sacralisation and new “Sacralisation” of religious buildings’, Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, 31 (2018).

Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen holds a doctorate in theology and is an editor at the ongoing multi-volume publication project Danmarks Kirker (‘The churches of Denmark’), published by the National Museum of Denmark. He recently published Ritual and Art Across the Danish Reformation: Changing Interiors of Village Churches, 1450–1600 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018). He is currently working on a volume about the role played by the cult of saints in Denmark from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Esko M. Laine is an Associate Professor in Church History at the University of Helsinki and at the University of Eastern Finland. Recent publications include ‘Pietism as a way to self in early modern Finland’, in Otfried Czaika and Wolfgang Undorf (eds), Schwedische Buchgeschichte: Zeitalter der Reformation und Konfessionalisierung (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021).

Tuija Laine is an Associate Professor in Church and Book History at the University of Helsinki and at the University of Eastern Finland. Her most recent publications include ‘Literacy, schooling and the role of common people in the educational field in Finland in the eighteenth century’, in Merethe Roos and others (eds), Exploring Textbooks and Cultural Change in Nordic Education 1536–2020 (Leiden: Brill, 2021) and ‘Motivation to read? Reading among the upper class children in Finland during the 17th and 18th centuries’, Knygotyra, 76 (2021).

Johannes Ljungberg is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen. His most recent publications include the volume Tracing Private Conversations: Talking in Everyday Life, co-edited together with Natacha Klein Käfer (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming in 2023), and ‘Talking in private – and keeping it private: protecting conversations from exposure in Swedish Pietism investigations, 1721–29’, in Sari Nauman and Helle Vogt (eds), Private/Public in Eighteenth-Century Scandinavia (London: Bloomsbury, 2022). 

Lars Cyril Nørgaard is a Senior Lecturer in Church History at the University of Copenhagen. He recently published ‘Copie ou Création? Les petits livres secrets de Madame de Maintenon’, in Mathieu da Vinha and Nathalie Grande (eds), Toute la cour était étonnée: Madame de Maintenon ou l’ambition politique au féminin, actes du colloque (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2022). Together with Michaël Green and Mette Birkedal Bruun, he is the editor of Early Modern Privacy: Sources and Approaches (Leiden: Brill, 2021).

Christina Petterson holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Macquarie University, Australia. She is an independent scholar specializing in the role of Christianity in social change. Recent publications include The Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition: A Socio-Economic Analysis of a Religious Community in Eighteenth Century Saxony (Leiden: Brill, 2021) and the anthology (co-edited together with Felicity Jensz) Legacies of David Cranz’s ‘Historie von Grönland’ (1765): Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

Tine Reeh is an Associate Professor in Church History at the University of Copenhagen. She is co-editor of Crossroads of Heritage and Religion: Legacy and Sustainability of World-Heritage-Site Moravian Christiansfeld (New York: Berghahn, 2022). She wrote her forthcoming monograph Unintended Secularization? Theological Agents in the Abolition of Mosaic Law in Western Scandinavia as the holder of one of the prestigious Carlsberg Monograph Fellowships.

Erik Sidenvall is Adjunct Professor of Church History, Lund University, Sweden. In addition to early modern history, his main area of research is twentieth-century European religious history. His recent contributions include ‘Local contexts of interpreting a Cold War relationship: Pommersche Landeskirche and Växjö Diocese, 1975–1989’, Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 33 (2021), and ‘Förnuftskritik och teologiskt motiverad sakkritik: ett bidrag till förståelsen av frihetstidens historieskrivning’, Historisk Tidskrift, 133 (2019).

Joonas Tammela is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He has published articles on the uses of sermons as historical sources.

Yvonne Maria Werner is a Senior Professor of History at Lund University, Sweden. Her recent works include ‘Concepts, ideas, and practices of masculinity in Catholicism and Protestantism around 1900’, in Daniel Gerster and Michael Krüggeler (eds), God’s Own Gender? Masculinities in World Religions (Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag, 2018), and ‘Gender and religion’, in Toyin Falola and Mohammed Bashir Salau (eds), Handbook of Religious Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022).

Terese Zachrisson is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Gothenburg. Her English publications include ‘Visiting holy wells in seventeenth-century Sweden: the case of St. Ingemo’s Well in Dala’, in Celeste Ray (ed.), Sacred Waters: A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020) and ‘The saint in the woods: semi-domestic shrines in rural Sweden, c. 1500–1800’, in Salvador Ryan (ed.), Domestic Devotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Basel: MDPI, 2019).