Dr Janus Møller Jensen
Contact Details
Janus Møller Jensen
Department of History and Civilization
University of Southern Denmark
Campusvej 55
5230 Odense M
Denmark
Tel: +45 65 50 43 24
Email: jamj@hist.sdu.dk
Background
When and where did you initially develop an interest in the history of the crusades and/or the Latin East?
While watching Robin Hood with Errol Flynn on an old film projector at the youth centre (‘the return of the king’ from the crusades in Sherwood – what a scene) and by reading the novels of Walter Scott (esp The Talisman and Ivanhoe) – but it would probably be fair to say medieval films in general.
Who or what sparked your enthusiasm for the subject?
Very difficult to say – at first the knights and the adventure part of it probably played a large part.
Education
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MA, August 2001, University of Copenhagen. Supervisor: Michael H Gelting.
PhD, November 2005, University of Southern Denmark. Supervisor: Kurt Villads Jensen.
Career History
Please provide details of your academic career history, including confirmation of your current institutional affiliation and contact details.
Adjunct (non-tenure associate professor) in medieval history, University of Southern Denmark, Jan 2006 – March 2009.
Influences and Methodologies
What ideas and/or methodologies have informed your approach to your research?
Especially pluralist and generalist approaches as well as comparative studies.
Research Outlook
What do you consider to be the most important avenues for future research in the field of crusader studies?
All aspects of crusading, but I think the interaction between ideology and politics have not actually been sufficiently explained yet; the question of definition of crusade needs constantly to be explored and have not yet reached a satisfying conclusion; and there still needs to be done a great deal on late medieval crusading and the long afterlife of crusade – especially protestant crusading!
Research Output
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Publications on crusades
- ”Danmark og den hellige krig. En undersøgelse af korstogsbevægelsens indflydelse på Danmark ca 1070-1169”, Historisk Tidsskrift, 100 (2000), 285-328.
- ”Peregrinatio sive Expeditio: Why the First Crusade was not a Pilgrimage”, Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, 15 (2003), 119-137.
- ”Sclavorum Expugnator: Conquest, Crusade and Danish Royal Ideology in the Twelfth Century’, Crusades, 2 (2003), 55-81.
- ”Denmark and the Holy War: A Redefinition of a Traditional Pattern of Conflict in the Baltic in the Twelfth Century’, in Scandinavians and Europe 800-1350: Contact, Conflict, and Coexistence, ed Jonathan Adams and Katherine Holman, Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 4 (Brepols: Turnhout, 2004), 219-36 [manuscript concluded 1999].
- ”Vejen til Jerusalem: Danmark og pilgrimsvejen til det Hellige Land i det 12. århundrede. En islandsk vejviser’, in Ett annat 1100-tal. Individ, kollektiv och kulturella mönster i medeltidens Danmark, ed Peter Carelli, Lars Hermanson and Hanne Sanders, Centrum för Danmarksstudier, 3 (Makadam: Göteborg, 2004), 284-337.
- ”Christian IV og korstogene”, Siden Saxo, 21/1 (2004), 4-13.
- ”Den glemte periferi og de glemte korstog, Grønland og korstogene 1400-1536”, Historie, 2004/1, 109-45.
- ”Die Bezwinger der Slawen – Kreuzzug, Königsideologie und Wenden im 12. Jahrhundert”, in Freunde und Feinde – Alltagsleben an der Ostsee 700-1200, ed Palle Birk Hansen, Anna-Elisabeth Jensen, Manfred Gläser and Ingrid Sudhoff, Ausstellungen zur Archäologie in Lübeck, 7 (Schmidt-Römhild: Lübeck, 2004), 33-45 [parallel German and Danish text].
- ”Fra korstog til religionskrig? Korstogstanken i Skandinavien, 1400-1600”, in: Konge, adel og militærmakt, 1400-1600, ed Knut PL Arstad, Forsvarsmuseets Småskrift, 39 (Forsvarsmuseet: Oslo, 2004), 34-78
- ”War, Penance and the First Crusade. Dealing with a ‘Tyrannical Construct’”, in: Medieval History Writing and Crusading Ideology, ed Tuomas MS Lehtonen and Kurt Villads Jensen with Janne Malkki and Katja Ritari (Finnish Literature Society: Helsinki, 2005), 51-63
- Broderliste, Broderskab, Korstog. Bidrag til opklaringen af en gåde fra dansk højmiddelalder, ed Janus Møller Jensen (University Press of Southern Denmark: Odense, 2006), with my own contribution: “Broderskaber og korstog. Broderlisten i europæisk perspektiv”
- “Erik I of Denmark”, “Greenland and the Crusades”, “Hakon (Jarl) of Orkney”, “Historia de Profectione Danorum in Hierosolymam”, “Nikulás of Thvera”, “Saxo Grammaticus”, and “Wetheman”, in: Encyclopedia of the Crusades, ed Alan V Murray, 4 vols (Santa Barbara, 2006)
- Together with Alan V Murray, “Crusade of Emperor Henry VI” and “Emperor Henry VI”, in: Encyclopedia of the Crusades, ed Alan V Murray, 4 vols (Santa Barbara, 2006)
- Denmark and the Crusades 1400-1650, The Northern World 30 (Leiden, 2007)
Forthcoming:
- Fynske Antikvarer. Lærdom, fortid og fortolkning, 1550-1850, ed Janus Møller Jensen (Odense, 2008)
- Renæssancen i svøb. Dansk renæssance i europæisk belysning 1450-1550, ed Lars Bisgaard, Jacob Isager and Janus Møller Jensen (Odense 2008)
- “The Forgotten Crusades: Greenland and the Crusades, 1400-1523”, Crusades 7 (2008)
- “Den ældste tegning af Kerteminde. En humanist kommer til byen”, Cartha (2007/2008)
