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• A critical edition of Francesco Pipino's Latin translation of Marco Polo
• Neo-Latin and Humanist Greek Poetry in the Baltic Region: An Anthology
• Marginalkommentarer hos Erik XIV (research leader)

• Johannes Magnus and the Composition of Truth. Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus
• Johannes Magnus som textkommentator: Marco Polo-manuskriptet (Ottob. Lat. 1875) (research leader)

I have four current projects, two larger and two smaller. The largest is a recently started critical edition of a 14th century Latin translation of Marco Polo's description of his long stay in the East. The beginning of this project was funded by C.M. Lericis stiftelse which enabled me to spend half a year working at the Vatican Library. The other large project is my editorship for a forthcoming anthology of early modern poetry in Latin and Greek. I shall spend six months at the Neo-Latin Institute in Innsbruck, Austria, working as an editor on the anthology, as well as writing a biography and editing a poem for one of the authors found in the work.

One of my smaller projects is a pilot project about causation in the work of Livy and Gregory of Tours, funded by Åke Wibergs stiftelse and Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse. The other is a study for an upcoming conference, the fifth of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies, about the Carta Marina and the work of Johannes and Olaus Magnus. I have also just completed a monograph about marginalia by King Eric XIV of Sweden.

After my thesis defence in Spring 2016, about Johannes Magnus’ major work of history, the Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus, I have continued working with two projects linked to Johannes Magnus himself or to his work. The first one, supported by a grant from Birgit and Gad Rausing’s stiftelse, is a study of the marginalia in Johannes Magnus’ copy, written by himself, of Marco Polo’s work about his travels in the East. The manuscript is now kept in the Vatican Library. The other, which is completed and has resulted in a monograph that will be published in 2021, is supported by grants from Gullberg/Thott, Åke Wiberg, and Gyllenstiernska Krapperupstiftelsen. This project too deals with marginalia, this time by King Eric XIV of Sweden (1533–1577). A few of his books have been preserved, and are kept in Uppsala and Stockholm. One of the books, and the one that is the focus of my study, is a copy of Johannes’ historical work. I presented results from these projects in Albacete (Spain) and Helsinki respectively, as well as at a symposium in Lund.

In addition, I have been one of the editors of Arne Jönsson’s 800-page Festschrift, written a few articles, and presented at a number of conferences, most recently a presentation in German, in Marburg (November 2019, before the pandemic struck). During my stay at the Swedish institute in Rome (2020),  I presented twice at the seminar there.

Books (2)

• Nilsson, A. M. H. (2021). Royal Marginalia : King Eric XIV of Sweden as a Reader. Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia, 28. Lund University (Media-Tryck).
• Nilsson, A. (2016). Johannes Magnus and the Composition of Truth : Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus. Lund University (Media-Tryck). Dissertation.
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Editorships (1)

• Nilsson, A. M. H., Damtoft Poulsen, A. & Svensson, J. (2017). (Eds.) Humanitas : Festskrift till Arne Jönsson. Makadam förlag.

Articles (1)

• Nilsson, A. M. H. (2017). Lions, Hares, and Donkeys: Illustrating Regal Traits in Johannes Magnus’ Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus (1554). Literatūra, 59, 51-60. Vilnius University Press.
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Book chapters (3)

• Nilsson, A. M. H. (2017). Ärkebiskop och historiker, känd och ändå okänd : Om Johannes Magnus liv och verk. Årsbok, Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund. Årsbok 2017, 137-151. Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund.
• Nilsson, A. M. H. (2017). Om paratexterna i de latinska utgåvorna av Johannes Magnus Historia de regibus. In Nilsson, A. M. H., Damtoft Poulsen, A. & Svensson, J. (Eds.) Humanitas : Festskrift till Arne Jönsson (pp. 629-645). Makadam förlag.
• Nilsson, A. (2014). Godtrogen och omgiven av dåliga rådgivare : Magnus Eriksson och heliga Birgitta i Johannes Magnus Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus. In Andersson, E., Kihlman, E. & Plaza, M. (Eds.) Latinet i tiden : En festskrift till Hans Aili (pp. 237-250), 60. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis.
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Prefaces (2)

• Nilsson, A. M. H., Damtoft Poulsen, A. & Svensson, J. (2017). Förord. Humanitas : Festskrift till Arne Jönsson, 11-14. Makadam förlag.
• Nilsson, A. M. H., Damtoft Poulsen, A. & Svensson, J. (2017). Preface. In Nilsson, A. M. H., Damtoft Poulsen, A. & Svensson, J. (Eds.) Humanitas : Festskrift till Arne Jönsson (pp. 15-18). Makadam förlag.

Conference contributions (17)

• Nilsson, A. M. H. (accepted/in press). Northern Itineraries : Johannes, Olaus and the Carta Marina (1539).
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• Nilsson, A. M. H. (accepted/in press). Royal Marginalia : Eric XIV of Sweden as an Intellectual.
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• Nilsson, A. M. H. (2021). Laughter in Johannes Magnus’ Historia de regibus (1554). In Akujärvi, J., Blomqvist, J. & Blomqvist, K. (Eds.) Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia, DE RISU – Representations and evaluations of laughter in Greek and Latin literature (pp. 173-188), 27. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
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• Nilsson, A. M. H. (2019). Erik XIV och Johannes Magnus – om en kunglig läsning av ett historiskt verk.
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• Nilsson, A. M. H. (2019). Laughter in Johannes Magnus.
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• Nilsson, A. (2018). Johannes Magnus’ Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus and Gostagus the Tyrant. In Steiner-Weber, A. & Römer, F. (Eds.) Acta Conventus Neo-Latini, Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Vindobonensis : Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Vienna 2015) (pp. 511-520), 16. Brill.
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• Nilsson, A. M. H. (2018). Royal Marginalia: King Eric XIV of Sweden as Organiser of Knowledge.
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• Nilsson, A. M. H. (2018). The Fascination of Nature: Marginalia in a Renaissance Marco Polo Manuscript.
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• Nilsson, A. M. H. (2017). Truth in Renaissance Historiography : The Case of Johannes Magnus. In Jönsson, A. & Vogt-Spira, G. (Eds.) Spudasmata, The Classical Tradition in the Baltic Region : Perceptions and Adaptations of Greece and Rome (pp. 33-53), 171. Georg Olms Verlag AG.
• Nilsson, A. (2016). Creating Prototypes : The Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus and Antiquity.
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• Nilsson, A. (2015). Ett nytt perspektiv på danskfientligheten i Johannes Magnus Historia de regibus.
• Nilsson, A. (2015). Johannes Magnus’ Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus and the Case of Gostagus.
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• Nilsson, A. (2014). Die Antike und die Historia de regibus von Johannes Magnus.
• Nilsson, A. (2014). The Journey of a Monarch: From Good King to Tyrant.
• Nilsson, A. (2013). Royal Notes in the Margin : On Erik XIV of Sweden and the Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus.
• Nilsson, A. (2012). Johannes Magnus and the Truth. A Renaissance Historiography sketch.
• Nilsson, A. (2011). Saint Eric of Sweden : the Catholic National Hero of a Protestant Country.

Reviews (2)

• Nilsson, A. M. H. (2019). Johannes Magnus. Lychnos : Lardomshistoriska samfundets arsbok = annual of the Swedish History of Science Society, 2019, 330-332. Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet.
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• Nilsson, A. M. H. (2017). Review of Patrick Baker, Ronny Kaiser, Maike Priesterjahn, Johannes Helmrath (ed.), Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance: The Humanist Depiction of Rulers in Historiographical and Biographical Texts. Transformationen der Antike, 44. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Bryn Mawr Commentaries.
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Articles in specialist publications and popular press (4)

• Nilsson, A. M. H. (2020). Min romerska karantän. Classica: Meddelanden från Svenska klassikerförbundet, 5-8. Svenska klassikerförbundet.
• Nilsson, A. M. H., Byström, E. & Gustavsson, A. (2020). Stipendiater i stormens öga : iakttagelser från Rom under coronakrisen. Romhorisont, 72, 5-7. Föreningen Svenska Rominstitutets Vänner.
• Nilsson, A. M. H. (2016). Med en svensk ärkebiskop i Rom : i Johannes Magnus fotspår. Romhorisont, 11-12. Föreningen Svenska Rominstitutets Vänner.
• Nilsson, A., Kraft, M., Luchmun, J., Nyström, M. & Svedberg, A. (2015). Inblickar och utblickar från en institutstillvaro : Stipendiater vid Svenska Rominstitutet 2014/2015. Romhorisont, 63, 5-7. Föreningen Svenska Rominstitutets Vänner.

Miscellaneous (2)

• Nilsson, A. M. H. (2016). A.M.H. Nilsson, Johannes Magnus and the composition of truth. Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus, PhD diss. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, 2016. Opuscula: Annual of the Swedish Institutes At Athens and Rome, 9. Editorial Committee of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome.
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• Nilsson, A. (2014). Tyrannbilden hos Johannes Magnus.