a Vice-President of the English Place-Name Society.A member of the Scientific Advisory Board/International Reference Group for two projects funded by the Research Council of Norway: Norrøn poesi og utviklingen av sagalitteraturen and Viking Nativity: Gjellestad Across Borders.An Editorial Board member of Nottingham Medieval Studies, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia and Acta Scandinavica.Gustav Adolfs Akademien in Uppsala, Sweden. An international fellow (''utländsk arbetande ledamot') of Kungl.Expertise SummaryĪreas of expertise - Old Norse language and literature, runology, and interdisciplinary Viking Studies. In 2020 I was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. During my time at Nottingham I have been Head of the School of English Studies (2001-4), and was promoted to Professor of Viking Studies in 2002. Before coming to Nottingham in 1985, I worked as a Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main (Germany). was educated at the Universities of Pennsylvania (USA), Durham (UK, BA in English Language and Medieval Literature), Oslo (Norway, Leverhulme Study Abroad Studentship) and London (PhD in Scandinavian Studies, UCL).JUDITH JESCH is Reader in Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham. Women in the Viking Age explores anunfamiliar aspect of medieval history and offers a new perspective on Viking society, very different from the traditional picture of a violent and male-dominated world. These sources illuminate different aspects of women's lives in the Viking age, on the farms and in the trading centres of Scandinavia, abroad on Viking expeditions, and as settlers in places such as Iceland andthe British Isles. Evidence for their lives is fragmentary, but Judith Jesch assembles the clues provided by archaeology, runic inscriptions, place names and personal names, foreign historical records and Old Norse literature and mythology.
This is the first book-length study in English to investigate what women did in the Viking age, both at home in Scandinavia and in the Viking coloniesfrom Greenland to Russia. Well-illustrated, closely argued and fascinating. Through runic inscriptions and behind the veil of myth, Jesch discovers the true story of viking women.
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