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• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2025). Saints of the Low Countries in Scandinavia: Manuscript evidence from twelfth-century Lund and Nidaros. The Medieval Low Countries (MLC). ISSN 2295-3493. 11, s. 13–41. doi: 10.1484/j.mlc.5.149645. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The Christianisation of Scandinavia, generally viewed as having been conducted from England and Germany, has formed the context in which evidence of saints’ cults has been interpreted in Denmark and Norway, not only during the early days of organised Christendom, but also during the High Middle Ages. Consequently, saints associated with the Low Countries and appearing in Danish and Norwegian manuscripts has been partly overlooked in the scholarship, partly assigned to other categories such as ‘French’ and ‘German’. This article examines the inclusion of such saints in twelfth-century manuscripts with a provenance from the archsees of Lund and Nidaros, bringing nuance to the standard narrative and shedding new light on connections that have so far been little studied.

• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2024). Norwegian, Danish—or French? A Scattered Missal and Its Provenance. Digital Philology. ISSN 2162-9544. 13(1), s. 91–101. doi: 10.1353/dph.2024.a926887. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2023). A Psalter for a Danish Queen? Remarks on London, British Library, Add. MS 17868. Collegium Medievale. ISSN 0801-9282. 36, s. 241–265. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  London, British Library, Add. MS 17868 is an illuminated luxury psalter made in Northern France c. 1260. While nothing is known of its provenance before it was acquired by the library, the composition of the calendar is unusual for a French psalter in that it includes the Scandinavian saints King Olav, King Knud, and Knud Lavard. Alongside the physical characteristics of the psalter, which suggest the manuscript was made for a member of the uppermost strata of society, the calendar thus offers a hint as to the intended recipient. This article examines the psalter with a particular focus on the calendar. Placing the manuscript in the context of other illuminated psalters owned by members of the Scandinavian elite in the thirteenth century, it suggests that the psalter may have been made for Queen Ingeborg of Norway, daughter of the Danish King Erik Plovpenning and wife of King Magnus Lagabøte. This theory is supported by the historical circumstances as they are described in the saga of Håkon Håkonsson.

• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2023). Le Liber Politicus dans un manuscrit cistercien danois du XIIe siècle. Scriptorium. ISSN 0036-9772. 77(1-2), s. 277–285. doi: 10.1484/J.SCRIPT.5.145444. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Le manuscrit Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV), Vat. lat. 636 (fin XIIe siècle) est connu comme l’un des témoins des Mirabilia Urbis Romae, dont des extraits sont inscrits sur les feuilles 125v–127v. En vérité, il s’agit des extraits du Liber Politicus, oeuvre compilée par le chanoine Benoît de Saint-Pierre 1140–1143. Le manuscrit constitue donc l’un des témoins les plus anciens de cette compilation, dont l’intégralité n’est transmise que dans Cambrai, Le Labo, 554 (deuxième moitié du XIIe siècle). Selon un ex-libris (f. 127) exécuté par la même main qui a transcrit les extraits du Liber Politicus, le manuscrit BAV, Vat. lat. 636 appartenait à l’abbaye cistercienne d’Esrum au Danemark. Cet article examine la transmission du Liber Politicus au Danemark, ainsi que les rapports entre le manuscrit danois et le manuscrit à Cambrai. Il est proposé que ce dernier ait pu appartenir à l’abbaye cistercienne française de Mores avant d’arriver à Cambrai.

• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2023). The Low Country saints of the Næstved calendar. Scandinavian Journal of History. ISSN 0346-8755. doi: 10.1080/03468755.2023.2250350. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The Næstved Calendar (Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, E don. var. 52 2º), an illuminated manuscript produced at the Benedictine monastery of St Peder at Næstved (also called Skovkloster) ca. 1228–1250, is known for transmitting historical information in the form of the older Næstved annals, as well as information pertaining to various persons related to the community. However, the composition of the calendar which gives the manuscript its name has received little attention. An analysis of the feasts in the calendar reveals a strong influence from the Low Countries, more specifically the areas today covered by Belgium and Northern France, but little to none of the English and German influence usually seen as typical of high medieval Danish calendars. The article proposes two possible explanations for the calendar’s composition: the influence of the Flemish and Northern French connections of the Danish elite in the Valdemar Era (1157–1241), most famously exemplified by members of the Hvide family such as Peder Sunesen (d. 1214), and Næstved’s own contacts, forged through the town’s position as a centre of trade. In both scenarios, the saints’ presence should be seen in the context of greater mobility and increased connections with the continent in the Valdemar Era.

• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2023). THOMAS BECKET, CLAIRVAUX, AND RINGSTED: SAINTLY DIVERSITY AND EUROPEAN INFLUENCES IN A TWELFTH-CENTURY FRAGMENTARY LEGENDARY FROM DENMARK. Classica et Mediaevalia. ISSN 0106-5815. 72, s. 255–288. doi: 10.7146/classicaetmediaevalia.v72i.142659. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2021). «De andre findes (vden tuiill) paa Herness heller Gilleskaall» – Mellomalderbøker i Nordland i etterreformatorisk tid. Collegium Medievale. ISSN 0801-9282. 34, s. 229–271. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Most known book collections in medieval Norway are associated with religious institutions such as monastic houses and cathedral chapters. In the northernmost parts of Norway there were no such institutions, but we still find traces of books and book collections. The Norwegian National Archives host fragments from almost a hundred manuscripts, both in Latin and Old Norse, with a provenance from the fief of Nordland. These were used as binding support for fief and bailiwick accounts in the seventeenth century. Additionally, surviving sources testify to the presence of books in medieval Hålogaland and post-Reformation Nordland: books mentioned in wills; incunables from Trondenes; and two famous Norse manuscripts currently kept in the De La Gardie collection in Uppsala, which have a seventeenth-century provenance from Salten in Nordland, where the governor’s residence was located. For the first time, all these sources are studied together in the present article, thus leading to a new understanding of which books existed in Nordland before and after the Reformation, and their fate.

• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2021). Fragmentsamlinga i Riksarkivet - ei kjelde til norsk bokkultur i mellomalderen. Klassisk Forum. ISSN 0801-3179. s. 36–65. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2021). Les livres français dans la Norvège médiévale : connexions culturelles, religieuses et sociales. Pecia: Le livre et l'écrit. ISSN 2295-6131. 23(2), s. 163–213. doi: 10.1484/j.pecia.5.123974. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article discusses the ecclesiastical, cultural, and political connections between Norway and France during the High Middle Ages (c. 1150-1320) and the traces left by these connections in surviving manuscript material, most of which is fragmentary. The establishment of Nidaros Archdiocese in 1152/1153 and the subsequent need for educated clerics, the emergence of universities and mendicant orders, and Norway’s integration into European networks of royal and ecclesiastical powers were the main processes facilitating the import and circulation of French-made texts and manuscripts. A selection of case studies, from decorated psalters to law books, illustrates the variety and importance of these Franco- Norwegian relations, as well as their impact on manuscript culture in medieval Norway.

• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2019). Alle vegar fører til Nidaros: om eit fransk handskriftfragment og dansk-norske kontinentale nettverk. Collegium Medievale. ISSN 0801-9282. 32(1), s. 39–57. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article discusses a fragment of Stephen of Tournai’s Summa in decretum Gratiani, now in the Norwegian National Archives, but originally part of a manuscript copied in France between around 1175 and 1200. The medieval provenance of the manuscript is uncertain, but the article discusses the possible ways in which it might have ended up in Norway, where it was used as binding material for seventeenth-century accounts from the area around Trondheim: was it brought to Norway as a result of contacts forged in twelfth-century Paris, or did it come to Denmark first? By showing that the manuscript, no matter whether it first came to Norway or Denmark, would have travelled thanks to the same type of contacts, involving the same type of people, the article uses the absence of a known medieval provenance as an opportunity to shed light on Danish-Norwegian connections and parallels in the High Middle Ages.

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• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2026). Ekkoet frå Konstantin. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2026). From Jóns stúka to Silvesters saga: The reception of Constantine's Donation in Twelfth-Century Scandinavia. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2026). From the Holy Land to Denmark, via Flanders. Entanglements Reflected in a Twelfth-Century Cistercian Manuscript. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø & Lamers, Han (2025). Networks in growth - The Norwegian Institute in Rome. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  A new arrangement aims to strengthen the connections between the Norwegian Institute and Italian scholars.

• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø & Lamers, Han (2025). Styrker samarbeidet med italienske forskarar - Det norske institutt i Roma. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Det norske instituttet i Roma (DNIR) har blitt vertskap for utvalde forskarar. Den nye ordninga skal bidra til å styrka banda til italienske forskingsmiljø.

• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø & Kibsgård, Ingrid Serenne Aakre (2025). Those who turned to Rome for help - The Norwegian Institute in Rome. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Historian Ingrid Kibsgård searches for victims of the Spanish Inquisition in the archives of the Apostolic Penitentiary.

• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø & Kibsgård, Ingrid Serenne Aakre (2025). Dei som bad Roma om hjelp - Det norske institutt i Roma. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Historikar Ingrid Kibsgård jaktar på offer for den spanske inkvisisjonen i arkivet til det pavelege pønitentiariet.

• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø & Selsvold, Irene (2025). The secrets of Vulci - The Norwegian Institute in Rome. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Irene Selsvold explores traces of Etruscan city culture alongside Swedish colleagues.

• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø & Selsvold, Irene (2025). Løyndommane i Vulci - Det norske institutt i Roma. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Irene Selsvold utforskar spor av etruskisk bykultur saman med svenske kollegaer.

• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø & Fenn, Taran Palmstrøm (2025). Med historia mellom hendene - Det norske institutt i Roma. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Mikaela og Taran kombinerer det tradisjonsrike FIDEM-kurset i mellomalderhandskrift med forskingsopphald ved Det norske instituttet (DNIR).

• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø & Lešák, Martin F. (2025). Exploring Rome’s Christian visual language - The Norwegian Institute in Rome. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Art historian Martin Lešák, the Norwegian Institute’s most recently arrived postdoc, will spend the next few years delving into the interaction between liturgy and visual decorations in Rome’s churches.

• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø & Lešák, Martin F. (2025). På oppdagingsferd i Romas kristne visuelle språk - Det norske institutt i Roma. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Kunsthistorikar Martin Lešák, den nyaste postdoktoren på Det norske instituttet, skal bruka dei neste åra på å fordjupa seg i samspelet mellom liturgi og utsmykkingar i romerske kyrkjer. 

• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2025). French law manuscripts in medieval Norway. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2025). The manuscript transmission of Ailnoth’s Chronicle. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2025). European saints in Danish manuscripts: evidence from the long twelfth century. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2025). The Missionaries and Their Books. European Regional Influences on Early Scandinavian Manuscript Culture. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2025). Rome and the Danish Cistercians: the Case of Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Lat. 636. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2025). Manuscripts as sources for liturgical practice in Norwegian parish churches: some reflections. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2025). Latinske handskrift og fragment frå norsk mellomalder. Forskingshistorie og status quo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2025). Prosjektpresentasjon: "Rome in the North: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Lat. 636 in Context". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2025). Presentasjon av prosjekt: "Roma i Norden: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Lat. 636 i kontekst". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Heide, Eldar; Ommundsen, Åslaug & Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2023). Med skriftkultur på Europa-reise i mellomalderen. [Radio]. Podcasten "Tru og meining i gammal tid". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2023). Liber Polypticus og dei danske cisterciensarane: eit nytt blikk på Esrum-handskriftet Vat.lat. 636 I. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2023). Scribes and Saints' Legends in Danish Monasteries: New Insights through Manuscript Fragments. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2023). Creating Databases for Manuscript Fragments: Challenges and Solutions. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2023). Band over Nordsjøen: engelsk og kontinental påverknad på norsk bokkultur i høgmellomalderen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Heide, Eldar; Ommundsen, Åslaug & Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2023). 38. Med skriftkultur på Europa-reise i mellomalderen. Samtale med Åslaug Ommundsen og Synnøve Midtbø Myking. [Radio]. Podkasten Tru og meining i gammal tid. https://pod.link/1635. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2022). Handskriftsfragment som kjelde til norsk bokkultur i mellomalderen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2022). From Tournai to Trondheim: Flemish Saints in Danish and Norwegian Manuscripts. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2022). Drechsler, Illuminated Manuscript Production in Medieval Iceland. The Medieval Review. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2022). Danish Scribes Revisited. Some Cases from the Royal Library and the National Archives in Copenhagen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2022). Imitation and Innovation in Twelfth-Century Danish Scribal Culture: The Case of Ringsted Abbey. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2022). The Victorine Network of Scandinavian Churchmen: Traces in Manuscript Fragments. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2022). Fragment frå mellomalderbøker i norske samlingar. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2022). Flemish Saints in Denmark and Norway: Textual Traces. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2022). Flandern, Noreg og Danmark: handskriftsmateriale som kjelde til kulturell kontakt i høgmellomalderen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Marit Midtbø (2021). Amendments of the Norwegian Code of 1274: between text and practice. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Marit Midtbø (2021). The Cult of Thomas Becket in Medieval Denmark. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2021). Manuscript Fragments in Norway and Denmark: Keys to a lost Book Culture. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2021). Fragment av bokkultur i Nordland. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2021). Connections between Scandinavia and the Low Countries in the High Middle Ages: Traces in Manuscript Culture. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2021). Cistercian Manuscripts in Medieval Denmark and Norway: Traces of a European Network. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2020). Magnus Lagabøtes landslov gjennom 400 år: bøker og brukarar. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2019). Amendments of the Landslov: manuscript practices and societal changes. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2019). Fragments of manuscripts, fragments of history. Contextualising the remnants of medieval book culture in Scandinavia. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø & Leslie-Jacobsen, Helen Frances (2019). Mellomalderlov i endring. Nyvinningar og bruksmåtar i førmoderne norske lovhandskrift. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2019). På sporet av Tore. Ei vandring gjennom Latinarkvarteret i Paris, på jakt etter den tapte verda til norske bondestudentar og/eller kyrkjas mektige menn. Syn og Segn. ISSN 0039-7717. s. 90–97. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2019). The contribution of manuscript studies to historical research. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Myking, Synnøve Midtbø & Ommundsen, Åslaug (2017). The French Connection: Norwegian Manuscript Fragments of French Origin and their Historical Context. Universitetet i Bergen. ISSN 9788230831144. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This thesis examines medieval Latin manuscript fragments of French origin in the Norwegian National Archives. The fragments in the Archives’ collection come from parchment manuscripts that were cut up and repurposed, used primarily as binding material for tax accounts in the 16th and 17th centuries. Few Norwegian medieval manuscripts have survived intact, and the fragments are therefore a valuable source for the scholar seeking to investigate early Norwegian book culture. The aim of the thesis has been twofold: to identity and examine the fragments of French origin, and to examine the context in which books could be brought from France to Norway in the Middle Ages. The identification and examination of fragments from Latin manuscripts of French origin shows that there is a correlation between the fragments and what the historical sources tell us of French-Norwegian connections in the Middle Ages: the number of French-origin fragments that can be dated prior to 1150 is relatively modest compared to those that can be dated to the second half of the 12th century or later. This corresponds to a growing amount of evidence of French-Norwegian contacts: Norwegians travelling through France, Norwegians studying in Paris, Norwegian clergy and court members interacting with their French peers, and French influence on Norwegian church organisation, liturgy, and literature. The manuscript fragments are challenging to work with, as they are only pieces from what used to be entire books. Still, the overarching impression of the material is that it reflects connections that were created and maintained by religious ties, diplomatic and political ties, and intellectual ties between France and Norway from the 11th to the 14th centuries.

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