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Projects

The Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS) is a Norwegian Centre for Excellence (CoE) and established for a ten year period in 2003.
Since then Researchers at CMS are involved in numerous projects involving one or more of the multidisciplinary areas of  the Centre studies.




  • CoE project: Periphery and Centre in Medieval Europe

    The Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS) is a Norwegian Centre for Excellence (CoE) established for a ten year period in 2003. The CoE project: Periphery and Centre in Medieval Europe is the main CoE project.

  • NCoE project: Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies(NCMS)

    The Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies (NCMS) is a Nordic Centre of Excellence (NCoE) and was established in September 2005. One of the goals is to overcome the strong national division within Nordic medieval research, while at the same time exploiting and developing the insights gained from more than 150 years of research in each country.

  • OYI project: The“Forging” of Christian Identity in the Northern Periphery (c.820-c.1200)

    The“Forging” of Christian Identity in the Northern Periphery (c.820-c.1200) is a project financed within the scheme for outstanding young investigators (OYI) by the Research Council of Norway. The goal of the initiative is to give talented younger researchers from all disciplines particularly good framework conditions to help them realise their potential to achieve international excellence. The scheme is intended to help develop world-class leaders in various fields of research and to enhance the quality of Norwegian research.

  • Bishop Towns and Capital Cities in Medieval Scandinavia

    The project aims to contribute to comparative analyses of urban development within a Nordic context.

  • Law and Legislation

    The project aims at promoting a comparison of Nordic medieval law within each realm, between the Nordic realms, and with Roman and canon law.

  • Nordic Medieval Book Culture and its International Networks

    Workshops on manuscript fragments in Nordic collections

  • Law and Violence in the Middle Ages

    Violence has been a subject of much lively recent debate among medieval historians. The current project seeks to develop this debate in a new direction: how law was used to control violence among two of the ‘three orders (ordines)’ of medieval society, the warrior class (bellatores) and the clergy (oratores).