Kim Bergqvist
Contact
Name and title: Kim Bergqvist
ORCID0000-0002-7828-8003 Länk till annan webbplats.
Workplace: Department of History Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room D 912Universitetsvägen 10 D, plan 9
Postal address Historiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of History, focused on medieval history.
Research fields
- Medieval history
- Political history
- Comparative history
- Cultural history
- History of emotions
During the years 2012 to 2017, I spent time as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain), the University of Oslo (Norway), Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), and Columbia University in the City of New York.
My teaching is geared towards medieval society in general and the political developments in Europe during the high and late Middle Ages in particular. I also teach historical methodology and theory.
I developed a course on cultural encounters and cultural exchange in medieval Europe with my colleague Martin Skoog, and with Margaretha Nordquist Food, fashion and material culture in the Middle Ages.
At DIS Stockholm (disabroad.org) I have designed and currently teach two courses: World of the Vikings and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages.
Thesis supervision
Since a number of years back I supervise bachelor's theses in history, the topics of which include medieval history writing, chivalric ideals and aristocratic ideology, social relations and political culture, gender (particularly masculinity), the history of emotions, and historiography.
Research interests
My doctoral dissertation examines aristocratic insurrections, resistance to the king, and political values in Castile-León and Sweden, c. 1270–1370.
A new research project in collaboration with Margaretha Nordquist, PhD, will focus on the political agency and exercise of power by the consorts to the regents of Sweden during the later Kalmar Union period (c. 1470–1520).
Apart from the themes of my dissertation (comparative history; political history; ideology), my main research interests relate to the following broad themes: the history of emotions, gender history, medieval history writing, and medieval fictionality.
Current research projects and networks
I am currently involved in the research project MUNARQAS - Las mujeres de las Monarquías Ibéricas: Paradigmas institucionales, agencias políticas y modelos culturales (siglos XIII-XV) (munarqas.com).
I am also a participant in the COST Action Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350–1750) (is-le.eu).
In the research group Spatio Serti - Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisa em Medievalística(cnpq.br), I am an international collaborator.