Susann Anett Pedersen
About
I am a medieval historian with a particular interest in social and economic history. In my postdoctoral research, I study the credit institution in medieval Norway (more info below). I am also interested in gender history and investigated women’s economic agency in my Ph.D. thesis, Choice and Consequence. Propertied Women's Economic Agency in Norway c. 1400-1550 (2021).
Starting in February 2022, I am a visiting scholar at Campop (The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure) at the University of Cambridge.
Credit and creditability – a new approach to Norwegian economic history c. 1250-1570 (postdoctoral project funded by the Research council of Norway)
This project explores credit’s economic and social role in medieval Norway. By studying why, how and when different actors entered credit relations, I seek to gain new knowledge about restrictions and opportunities embedded in the economic system of the time, and study whether credit made the economy more flexible in a period of economic change. Furthermore, I wish to explore credit’s social role. Medieval credit was to large extent based on personal bonds of trust between debtor and creditor, and a person who was indebted to one person was often creditor to another. A likely consequence was the existence of large networks of credit, and I wish to explore to what extent these personal bonds functioned as a social link between people of both genders with different social backgrounds and from different geographical areas. This aspect is particular interesting, as networks of credit could stretch from the northernmost periphery of Europe to the very core of international trade.
Publications
2021
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Pedersen, Susann Anett.
(2021)
Landed property as marital gifts: women and landownership in fifteenth-century Norway.
Gender, Law and Material Culture. Immobile Property and Mobile Goods in Early Modern Europe.
Academic chapter/article
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Pedersen, Susann Anett;
Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol.
(2021)
Choice and Consequence. Propertied Women's Economic Agency in Norway c. 1400-1550.
2021.
PhD thesis
2018
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Pedersen, Susann Anett.
(2018)
Marriage, law and property: Married noblewomen's role in property management in fifteenth-century Norway.
Gender, Law and Economic Well-Being in Europe from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century. North versus South?.
Academic chapter/article
2012
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Pedersen, Susann Anett;
Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol.
(2012)
I kjølvatnet av staðamál - Årsaker til konflikt mellom ’lek og lærd’ på Island ca 1297-1390.
2012.
Master thesis
Part of book/report
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Pedersen, Susann Anett.
(2021)
Landed property as marital gifts: women and landownership in fifteenth-century Norway.
Gender, Law and Material Culture. Immobile Property and Mobile Goods in Early Modern Europe.
Academic chapter/article
-
Pedersen, Susann Anett.
(2018)
Marriage, law and property: Married noblewomen's role in property management in fifteenth-century Norway.
Gender, Law and Economic Well-Being in Europe from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century. North versus South?.
Academic chapter/article
Report
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Pedersen, Susann Anett;
Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol.
(2021)
Choice and Consequence. Propertied Women's Economic Agency in Norway c. 1400-1550.
2021.
PhD thesis
-
Pedersen, Susann Anett;
Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol.
(2012)
I kjølvatnet av staðamál - Årsaker til konflikt mellom ’lek og lærd’ på Island ca 1297-1390.
2012.
Master thesis