Professor Carsten Selch Jensen
Contact Details
Department of Church History
Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen
Koebmagergade 44-46, 1150 Copenhagen K
Denmark
Email: csj@teol.ku.dk
Background
When and where did you initially develop an interest in the history of the crusades and/or the Latin East?
When I in 1999 became part of a research programme in Denmark on the Scandinavian Crusades in the Baltic Region.
Who or what sparked your enthusiasm for the subject?
My interest in crusading movement in general and the religious thoughts and ideas in the Middle Ages definitely initiated my interest in the Baltic crusades that have become my primary field of research.
Education
Please provide details of your Higher Education, including dates, institution(s) and the name(s) of your research supervisors.
- Master in History 1988, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
- Master in Theology 1992, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
- PhD in Medieval History, 1997, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, my research supervisor was Associate Professor, Dr Phil Tore Nyberg
Career History
Please provide details of your academic career history, including confirmation of your current institutional affiliation and contact details.
- 1997-2003, Post Doc and later Assistant Professor, Department of history, University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
- 2003-2006, Assistant Professor, Department of Church History, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.
- 2006- , Associate Professor, Department of Church History, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.
- 2007-, Head of Department, Department of Church History, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.
Influences and Methodologies
What ideas and/or methodologies have informed your approach to your research?
The pluralist approach towards the medieval crusading movements have been very inspiring to me as has the various contacts with colleagues from Scandinavian, the Baltic Lands, UK, Germany and US.
Research Outlook
What do you consider to be the most important avenues for future research in the field of crusader studies?
N/C
Research Output
Please provide details of your research output, including publications and other media as appropriate.
Selected publications in German, English and Estonian:
- ”Drei spätmittelalterliche Gasthäuser in Lübeck”, Zeitschrift des Vereins für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Bd 78, 1998, p 165-186.
- ”Urban life and the crusades in north Germany and the Baltics in the early 13th century”, Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier 1150-1500, ed Alan V Murray. Ashgate 2001. s 75-94.
- Medieval Spirituality in Scandinavia and Europe. A Collection of Essays in Honour of Tore Nyberg. Red Carsten Selch Jensen (together with L.Bisgaard, KV Jensen og JH Lind), Odense Universitetsforlag 2001, p 350.
- The nature of the Early Missionary Activities and Crusades in Livonia, 1185-1201. Medieval Spirituality in Scandinavia and Europe. A Collection of Essays in Honour of Tore Nyberg. Odense Universitetsforlag 2001, p 121-137.
- ”Communicating Crusades and Crusading Communications in the Baltic Region”, Scandinavian Economic History Review, vol 49, 2, 2001, p 5-25. Together with John H Lind and Kurt V Jensen
- Danske korstog. Krig og mission i Østersøen [Danish Crusades. War and Mission in the Baltic Region – is about to be translated into English]. Høst og Søn 2004 (opdateret og revideret 2. udgave 2006) (m Kurt V Jensen, John H Lind og Ane Bysted), p 404.
- “The early Stage of Christianization in Livonia according to modern historical Writings and Contemporary medieval Chronicles”, Medievel History Writing and Crusading Ideology. Studia Fennica. Eds Tuomas Lethonen and Kurt Villads Jensen, 2005, p 207-215.
- “How to Convert a Landscape: Henry of Livonia and the Chronicon Livoniae”. Forventes publiseret i The Clash of Cultures on the Medieval Baltic Frontier, red Alan Murray, Ashgate 2008, ca 20 pages.
- Taani Ristiõjad – Sõda ja Misjon Läänemere Ääres [Estonian translation of the above mentioned Danske korstog. Krig og mission i Østersøen], Argo 2007. p 420.