As Carlo Ginzburg argued in ‘Il giudice e lo storico’, the idea of historians as judges has led to an emphasis on history as the narrative of events performed by one or a small group of individuals. At least since the first half of the…

Literarische Nachlässe sind persönliche, unverfälschte und unterschätzte historische Quellen nicht nur indivivueller Lebensläufe, sondern auch des jeweiligen historischen Kontextes. Sie spiegeln Schrift, Gesellschaft und Identität einer…

Sturla Þórðarson's Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar (1260s) has often been interpreted as a record of a reign which was a milestone in the formation of the Norwegian state. But can it also be read as a depiction of a psychological breakthrough: a…