Gunnar Winsnes Knutsen
- E-mailgunnar.knutsen@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 31 58
- Visitor AddressØysteins gate 35007 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78055020 Bergen
My current research is centred on the development of tools and methods for applying artificial intelligence to historical research, focusing mainly on Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, and Spanish sources.
Most of my published research centres around questions of belief and the connection between belief and action in early modern Europe, specifically in Norway and Spain. The three areas that I have been most focused on have been witchcraft trials, the Spanish Inquisition, and wars of religion. The majority of my scholarly work has been published in English, while my textbooks and books of popular history are in Norwegian.
I have through a number of years worked as Principal Investigator on an extensive database of trials of faith in the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions, EMID.
- (2008). Långa linjer i historien. Liber.
- (2006). Lange linjer i historien. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
- (2023). The trial of faith in the Spanish Inquisition: Between law and repentance. Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 5-33.
- (2020). Witchcraft and Slavery in Cartagena de Indias. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft. 173-193.
- (2020). El danés peligroso. Semblante humano de Gustav Henningsen. Evocación a cuatro manos. Príncipe de Viana. 837-848.
- (2018). EMID – The Early Modern Inquisition Database. Revista de la Inquisición. 151-158.
- (2012). Historias de lo sobrenatural. Estudis: Revista d'Història Moderna. 77-89.
- (2010). Prosecuting the French: patterns of trials against French defendants in Valencia, 1566-1686. Continuity and Change. 357-376.
- (2010). En norsk sjømann i Den spanske inkvisisjonen. Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift. 95-107.
- (2008). Kjetterinkvisitorer i Norge. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 433-450.
- (2008). El Santo Oficio de la Inquisición en Barcelona y soldados protestantes en el ejercito de Cataluña. Estudis: Revista d'Història Moderna. 173-188.
- (2007). Trolls and witches. Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. 31-69.
- (2006). The decline and end of witch trials in Scandinavia. Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. 143-164.
- (2005). Trolldomsprosessenes opphør i Skandinavia. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 593-611.
- (2005). Religious Life in Seventeenth Century Norway Seen Through the Eyes of the Spanish Inquisition. Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. 7-23.
- (2003). Norwegian witchcraft trials: a reassessment. Continuity and Change. 185-200.
- (1998). Trolldomsprosessene på Østlandet. En kulturhistorisk undersøkelse. .
- (1998). Fact, fiction and forensic evidence. The potential of judicial sources for historical research in the early modern periode. 2. 2. .
- (2012). Cuentos de lo sobrenatural en los procesos de superstición en Valencia y Barcelona.
- (2011). Servants of Satan and masters of demons. The Spanish Inquisition and trials for superstition.
- (2008). The Spanish Inquisition and Protestant soldiers in Spanish service.
- (2007). Torture in Witchcraft cases in secular courts and the Inquisition in Catalonia.
- (2006). Roundtable: Historical Research from Historical Databases.
- (2004). A Dissertation: A discussion between E. William Monter and Gunnar W. Knutsen on Spanish witch trials. Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. 317-330.
- (2013). Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages, Stephen A. Mitchell. Scandinavian Journal of History. 389-390.
- (2009). Republican States and church. From antiquity to the presnt day. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 363-366.
- (2007). Lu Ann Homza, ed. and trans. The Spanish Inquisition 1478–1614: An Anthology of Sources. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft. 95-96.
- (2005). Gustav Henningsen: The Salazar Documents. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 145-147.
- (2005). Finn Fuglestad: Spanias og Portugals historie. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 518-522.
- (2013). Religionskrig i Europa 1450-1700.
- (2009). Servants of Satan and Masters of Demons : The Spanish Inquisition's Trials of Superstition, Valencia and Barcelona, 1478-1700.
- (2006). Charles Dellon i Inkvisisjonens klør.
- (2014). I inkvisisjonens klør. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
- (1996). Tingbok for Aker 1685. Tingbokprosjektet.
- (1996). Trolldomsprosessene på Østlandet. En kulturhistorisk undersøkelse.
- (2023). Den spanske borgerkrigen. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven).
- (2004). Servants of Satan and masters of demons.
- (2023). La ordenanza real de 1617 y los procesos por brujería en la Noruega moderna. 12 pages.
- (2017). Katolske bergensere et århundre etter reformasjonen. 17 pages.
- (2017). Después de la condena: supuestas hechiceras y brujas en Valencia después de sus procesos inquisitoriales. 22 pages.
- (2014). Topics of Persecution: Witchcraft Historiography in the Iberian World. 24 pages.
- (2002). Where Did the Witches Go? Spanish Witches After Their Trials. 11 pages.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
My newest project is the study of the king's lieutenants in Norway in the periode between 1536 and 1660.
Godly Power and Witchcraft in the Danish Realms (1559-1660)
The Early Modern Inquisition Database (EMID)