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Anna Catharina Horn

Senior Lecturer - Medieval Studies
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Phone +47 22 85 42 82
Room HW322
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Visiting address Henrik Wergelands hus
Postal address Postboks 1102 Blindern 0317 Oslo

Faglige interesser

My current position is as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Linguistic and Scandinavian Studies. My project Texts to Rule and Regulate is a part of the research program Modes of Modification. Variance and Change in Medieval Manuscript Culture. In my project I am investigating the use and development of administrative texts, like laws and charters, in Scandinavia 1100-1600.

Undervisning

<VMS4191 Medieval Manuscript Culture>

 

Background

In my pre-academic career I have worked as a typograph and as an economist.

I graduated as a bachelor in Western European Medieval Studies and as a master in Old Norse Philolgy at the University of Oslo.

My doctoral thesis is from the University of Gothenburg and has the title Lov og tekst i middelalderen. Produksjon og resepsjon av Magnus Lagabøtes landslov.

 

Verv

Undervisningskoordinator for the BA-program in Norrøne og keltiske studier and for the MA-programs Viking and Medieval Studies, and Viking and Medieval Norse Studies.

Member of the Research Committee at the Department of Linguistic and Scandinavian Studies.

Tags: Old Norse Philology, Old Norse Literature, Palaeography, Codicology, Literacy, Manuscripts, Manuscript Culture, Middle Ages, medieval law, Medieval Culture, Medieval History, NORRKELT

Publications

  • Horn, Anna Catharina & Melve, Leidulf (2024). … þetta bref er gort var j Oslo – Skriftbruk hos kirke, kongemakt og i det sivile samfunn. In Bauer, Egil Lindhart; Eriksen, Stefka G.; Hegdal, Håvard; Stige, Morten & Berge, Sara Langvik (Ed.), Det gamle Oslo 1000–1624. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202738464. Full text in Research Archive
  • Melve, Leidulf & Horn, Anna Catharina (2024). "...detta bref er gort var j Oslo": Skriftbruk hos kirke, kongemakt og i det sivile samfunn. In Bauer, Egil Lindhart; Eriksen, Stefka G.; Hegdal, Håvard; Stige, Morten & Berge, Sara Langvik (Ed.), Det gamle Oslo 1000–1624. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202738464. doi: 10.23865/cdf.239. Full text in Research Archive
  • Horn, Anna Catharina (2024). The Sixteenth-Century Translations of the 1274 Landslǫg (Laws of the Land) - An Introductory Approach. In Fridriksdottir, Johanna Katrin & Rösli, Lukas (Ed.), Old Norse Law Books from a Material Perspective. Nasjonalbiblioteket. ISSN 9788279655787. p. 189–218. Full text in Research Archive
  • Horn, Anna Catharina (2024). Landsloven som tekst: Tilkomst og overlevering. In Sunde, Jørn Øyrehagen (Eds.), Landslova. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788245044041. p. 17–33. Full text in Research Archive
  • Horn, Anna Catharina (2024). Sluttretterbøtene til kong Håkon og kong Magnus. In Sunde, Jørn Øyrehagen (Eds.), Landslova. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788245044041. p. 403–411. Full text in Research Archive
  • Horn, Anna Catharina (2023). Hånd c og d i GKS 1154 fol – én og samme hånd? Maal og Minne. ISSN 0024-855X. 115(1), p. 41–77. doi: 10.52145/mom.v115i1.2182. Full text in Research Archive
  • Horn, Anna Catharina & Kleivane, Elise (2022). The Making of a Centre in the Periphery: Writing and Rhetoric at the Archdiocese of Niðaróss. In Heiniger, Anna Katharina; Merkelbach, Rebecca & Wilson, Alexander (Ed.), Þáttasyrpa – Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Sprache in Nordeuropa. Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. ISSN 9783772087691. p. 47–57. doi: 10.24053/9783772057694. Full text in Research Archive
  • Horn, Anna Catharina (2022). Västergötlands skriftkultur i et komparativt perspektiv. In Blode, Anja Ute & Brandenburg, Elena (Ed.), Three Crowns and Eleven Tears: East Norse Philology from Cologne. Syddansk Universitetsforlag. ISSN 9788740834178. p. 143–156. Full text in Research Archive
  • Johansson, Karl G. & Horn, Anna Catharina (2021). Some Reflections on Writing a New History of Texts for the Scandinavian Middle Ages. In Johansson, Karl G. & Horn, Anna Catharina (Ed.), The Meaning of Media: Texts and Materiality in Medieval Scandinavia. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9783110694970. p. 1–17. doi: 10.1515/9783110695366-001. Full text in Research Archive
  • Horn, Anna Catharina (2021). Form og formål. Landsloven som brobygger i norsk historie. In Ostad, Johanne & Kleivane, Elise (Ed.), Språk i arkivet. Historier om hvordan språk reflekterer samfunnet. Nasjonalbiblioteket. ISSN 9788279654650. p. 60–79. Full text in Research Archive
  • Horn, Anna Catharina (2020). Fra landskapslov til landslov. En studie av tekstorganiseringen i norrøne middelalderlover. In Horn, Anna Catharina & Seip, Karen Arup (Ed.), Lov og lovgivning i middelalderen. Nye studier av Magnus Lagabøtes landslov. Nasjonalbiblioteket. ISSN 9788279654612. p. 99–134. Full text in Research Archive
  • Horn, Anna Catharina & Seip, Karen Arup (2020). Landsloven 750 år: Loven i en håndskriftkultur. In Horn, Anna Catharina & Seip, Karen Arup (Ed.), Lov og lovgivning i middelalderen. Nye studier av Magnus Lagabøtes landslov. Nasjonalbiblioteket. ISSN 9788279654612. p. 13–31. Full text in Research Archive
  • Horn, Anna Catharina (2018). Lovrevisjonene til Magnus Håkonsson Lagabøte – en historiografisk gjennomgang. Maal og Minne. ISSN 0024-855X. p. 1–27. Full text in Research Archive
  • Horn, Anna Catharina (2013). The Scribe and his Exemplars: A Comparative Study of Four Manuscripts by Thorgerus Haquini. Studia Neophilologica. ISSN 0039-3274. 86, p. 68–82. Full text in Research Archive
  • Horn, Anna Catharina (2009). Kapitteltitler og funksjonalitet i Magnus Lagabøtes landslov. Arkiv för nordisk filologi. ISSN 0066-7668. p. 89–127. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Horn, Anna Catharina (2024). Torgeir Håkonssons lovbøker for Gulating og Borgarting. In Gustavsen, Cecilia (Eds.), Landsloven 750 år. Slottsfjellsmuseet -- Norsk Borgsenter. ISSN 9788299904940. p. 23–34. Full text in Research Archive
  • Horn, Anna Catharina (2024). Skriftkultur og skrivere i middelalderen. Full text in Research Archive
  • Horn, Anna Catharina (2020). Codex Hardenbergianus - et lite stykke norgeshistorie. Full text in Research Archive
  • Horn, Anna Catharina (2019). Manuscript Culture at the Skara diocese in the 13th century. Full text in Research Archive
  • Horn, Anna Catharina (2018). Annette Lassen: Islændingesagaernes verden. Collegium Medievale. ISSN 0801-9282. 30, p. 177–178. Full text in Research Archive

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