Associated Research Staff:
Dr Patricia Pires Boulhosa
Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Cambridge
Contact
Department of ASNC, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP
(+44-1223-335079)
Email:ppb21@cam.ac.uk
Patricia's current research is in two main fields. Her first major project deals with the making of Icelandic legal manuscripts before the country’s submission to the King of Norway in the thirteenth century. She will present the preliminary findings at a workshop entitled “Learned Tools in Medieval Administration” at the University of Zurich in February 2010, with a follow-up in Berlin on July 2010 at the Nordeuropa-Institut der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her second project is a development of her PhD research into the economic and political relations between Iceland and Norway from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, especially the Icelandic subsistence and commercial fisheries. In 2007, she presented this research to “The Realm of Norway and its Dependencies as a Political System”, a seminar organized by Professor Steinar Imsen (Norway). This seminar, which meets every two years and brings together a group of scholars from Scandinavia and the United Kingdom, has recently received four years of funding from the Norwegian Council of Research. In April 2010, the first book arising from this project will be published, and in October 2010 the seminar will meet again in Gotland, Sweden. Patricia is also completing an edition of a Portuguese translation of Völuspá, for which she was awarded the Snorri Sturluson Icelandic Fellowship in 2007.
Research Interests
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Mediaeval Icelandic History
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Manuscript Studies
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Mediaeval Scandinavian Literature
Recent and Forthcoming Publications
Books
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Völuspá (edited, commented and translated into Portuguese), forthcoming 2010
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Gamli sáttmáli: Tilurð og tilgangur (Reykjavík: Sögufélag, 2006)
- Icelanders and the Kings of Norway: Mediaeval Sagas and Legal Texts, Northern World, 17 (Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2005)
Articles
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“Ideals and Aspirations: Democracy and Law-Making in Mediaeval Iceland”, in The Secret History of Democracy, edited by Benjamin Isakhan and Stephen Stockwell, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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Of Fish and Ships in Medieval Iceland”, in The Norwegian Domination and the Norse Wolrd c. 1100-c.1400, edited by Steinar Imsen, Trondheim Studies in History (Trondheim: Tapir Academic Press, 2010), pp. 175-97 -- first publication of the project The Realm of Norway and its Dependencies as a Political System(http://www.ntnu.no/ihk/realmofnorway)
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Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka, translation into Portuguese, forthcoming in a special edition of Mediaeval Scandinavia (Festschrift edited by Daniel Melia), 2008
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“Scribal Practices and the Scholarly Transmission of Völuspá in Codex Regius”, forthcoming in Mediaeval Scandinavia, 17 (2007)
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“Möguleikar einir hrökkva ekki til”, Lésbók Mörgunblaðsins, 13 January 2007
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“A mitologia escandinava de Georges Dumézil: Uma reflexão sobre método e improbabilidade” [The Scandinavian Mythology of George Dumézil: A Reflection on Method and Improbability], Brathair, 6:2 (2006), 1-54 - download it here
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“Sagas islandesas como fonte da história da Escandinávia medieval” [Icelandic Sagas as a Source of Medieval Scandinavian History], Signun, 7 (2005), 13-39
- “Breves Observações sobre a Edda em Prosa” [Brief Observations on the Prose Edda], Brathair, 4 (2004), 13-18 - download it here
Reviews
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Snorri Sturluson and the Edda: The Conversion of Cultural Capital in Medieval Scandinavia. By Kevin J. Wanner (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), Saga Book,33 (2009)
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Viking Empires. By Angelo Forte, Richard Oram and Frederik Pedersen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), Saga Book, 30 (2006), 116-18