Randi Bjørshol Wærdahl
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About
Academic expertise and fields of interest
My field of expertise is Norwegian and Nordic medieval history, and my primary fields of research are women's political and economic agency c. 1100-1550, and the relationship between the king of Norway and the Norse island communities c. 1100-1400.
Teaching (2022-23)
- HIST1300/1350 Eldre historie til og med ca. 1750
- HIST2002 Norden i middelalderen
- Supervising bachelor- and fordypning theses in history and in five year teacher education in history
- Supervising masters theses in history and in five year teacher education in history
Supervising responsibilities, PhD level
- PhD, NTNU Rakel Igland Diesen, Conceptions of Nordic childhood in medieval hagiography (main supervisor)
- PhD, NTNU Susann Anett Pedersen (dissertation 2021), Choice and consequence
Propertied women’s economic agency in Norway c. 1400-1550 (main supervisor) - PhD, NTNU Heidi Anett Øvergård Beistad (dissertation 2016), An Almost Fanatical Devotion to the Pope. Power and Priorities in the Integration of the Nidaros Province, c. 1153-1300 (supervisor)
- PhD, NTNU Aina Heen Pettersen (dissertation 2022), Farin Vestir and back: Social and Itinerary Perspectives on Insular objects in Viking-Age Norway. (co-supervisor)
- PhD, NTNU Tom Lorenz, Liturgical Fragments of Medieval Iceland (1056-1402). (co-supervisor)
National representative the Viking Congress (2014-)
Publications
2020
- Njåstad, Magne; Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol. (2020) Helgener i nord. Nye studier i nordisk helgenkult. Novus Forlag. 2020. ISBN 978-82-8390-047-7.
2019
- Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol. (2019) «Manndtz Nature vdj hindis hiertte» - Kvinner i krig og konflikt i nordisk senmiddelalder. Collegium Medievale.
2018
- Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol. (2018) A Well-adjusted Immigrant: Isabella Bruce, Queen Dowager of Norway, 1299-1358. Gender and Mobility in Scotland and Abroad.
2017
- Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol. (2017) Gautr Jónsson of Mel: Craftsman of Battle and Chief Oral Source of Hákonar saga. Sturla Þórðarson: Skald, Chieftain and Lawman.
- Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol. (2017) The opportunity to profit from favourable circumstances: a widow's benefits of holding crown fiefs in Norway in the 1520s. Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800.
2011
- Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol. (2011) The Incorporation and Integration of the King's Tributary Lands into the Norwegian Realm c. 1195-1397. Brill Academic Publishers. 2011. ISBN 978-90-04-206137. The Northern World (53).
Journal publications
- Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol. (2019) «Manndtz Nature vdj hindis hiertte» - Kvinner i krig og konflikt i nordisk senmiddelalder. Collegium Medievale.
Part of book/report
- Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol. (2018) A Well-adjusted Immigrant: Isabella Bruce, Queen Dowager of Norway, 1299-1358. Gender and Mobility in Scotland and Abroad.
- Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol. (2017) Gautr Jónsson of Mel: Craftsman of Battle and Chief Oral Source of Hákonar saga. Sturla Þórðarson: Skald, Chieftain and Lawman.
- Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol. (2017) The opportunity to profit from favourable circumstances: a widow's benefits of holding crown fiefs in Norway in the 1520s. Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800.
Books
- Njåstad, Magne; Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol. (2020) Helgener i nord. Nye studier i nordisk helgenkult. Novus Forlag. 2020. ISBN 978-82-8390-047-7.
- Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol. (2011) The Incorporation and Integration of the King's Tributary Lands into the Norwegian Realm c. 1195-1397. Brill Academic Publishers. 2011. ISBN 978-90-04-206137. The Northern World (53).