Person
Researcher
- Latin
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail astrid.nilssonklass.luse
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
After my thesis defense in Spring 2016, about Johannes Magnus’ major work of history, the Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus, I have continued working on two smaller projects linked to Johannes Magnus. The first, supported by a grant from Birgit and Gad Rausing’sstiftelse, is a study of the marginalia in Johannes Magnus’ copy of Marco Polo’s work, kept in the Vatican Library. My resulting article is under final revision. The other, current project, is supported by grants from Gullberg/Thott and Åke Wiberg, and is about marginalia too, but by King Eric XIV. Some of his books are preserved and kept in Uppsala and Stockholm. One of them is a copy of Johannes’ historical work.
In addition, I have been one of the editors of Arne Jönsson’s newly finished 800-page Festschrift, written an article for a yearbook (Vetenskapssocieteten), and participated in two conferences with a presentation, in Oslo and in Vilnius, and in three as a listener (once in Uppsala and twice in Lund).
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
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.
Editorships (1)
Articles (1)
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.
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).
- Nilsson, A. M. H. (accepted/in press). Royal Marginalia : Eric XIV of Sweden as an Intellectual.
- 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.
- Nilsson, A. M. H. (2019). Erik XIV och Johannes Magnus – om en kunglig läsning av ett historiskt verk.
- Nilsson, A. M. H. (2019). Laughter in Johannes Magnus.
- 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.
- Nilsson, A. M. H. (2018). Royal Marginalia: King Eric XIV of Sweden as Organiser of Knowledge.
- Nilsson, A. M. H. (2018). The Fascination of Nature: Marginalia in a Renaissance Marco Polo Manuscript.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 : årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria : annual of the Swedish History of Science Society, 2019, 330-332. Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet.
- 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.
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.
- Nilsson, A. (2014). Tyrannbilden hos Johannes Magnus.
Other tasks and qualifications
Prizes and Scholarships
2016 Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund: Näringslivets Fond för Humanistisk forskning - prize awarded for my doctoral thesis
2014-2015: Scholarship of Philology, at the Swedish institute in Rome
2010 Jarnvall's and Res Politica's Prize - awarded for my master's thesis in Latin
Teaching
LATA01, 10 hp, Autumn 2013
LATA03, 9 hp, Spring 2014
Latin poetry (Vergil's Georgica), Philipps-Universität Marburg, June 2014 (German) (Erasmus)
Administrative work
Secretary of the Organization Committee of the ninth congress of Swedish philologists, Lund, 11-13 May 2015.
http://konferens.ht.lu.se/filolog2015/
Secretary of the Organization Committee of the Colloquium Balticum XI Lundense, 8-10 November 2012.
http://konferens.ht.lu.se/colloquium-balticum/
Researcher
- Latin
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail astrid.nilssonklass.luse
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20