Kim Bergqvist

Born 1986 in Stockholm, Sweden. I am a doctoral student in medieval history in the Department of History at Stockholm University, Sweden, also affiliated with the Centre for Medieval Studies. Currently in my final year of studies, I am completing a doctoral dissertation on aristocratic ideology and political mentality in narrative literature from Castile-León and Sweden in the period ca. 1275-1350. It is guided by a comparative and transnational approach, and examines the use and flow of political concepts in a number of genres. I am spending the fall semester of 2016 as a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University in the City of New York. In recent years, I have held a semester-long Visiting Fellowship at the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain (2012-13), invited by Professor Jaume Aurell, and carried out shorter research visits to Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2014), and to the University of Oslo, Norway (2014) and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2015). I am the Chancellor of the scholarly society Historians of Medieval Iberia (HoMI), for which I was co-organiser of an international conference on the theme of friendship and enmity in Stockholm on March 14 to 17, 2016. I have published on nobility, history writing, romances and books of chivalry, political language, ideology, medieval fictionality, gender history and the history of emotions. My teaching is geared towards medieval society, particularly the European political and cultural history of the high and late Middle Ages. With a colleague I have put together a new course on cultural encounters and cultural exchange in medieval Europe. Since a couple of years back I also supervise Bachelor’s theses on a variety of subjects, including medieval history writing, chivalry, aristocratic ideology, social relations and political culture, gender (particularly masculinity), the history of emotions and medievalism.