Kirsi Salonen, Anna-Stina Hägglund & Claes Gejrot (eds.): Scandinavia and the Vatican Archives

Sammendrag

The contact between the papacy and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages has received much interest in recent years internationally, inter alia in the important monograph by Francesco D’Angelo (2017) on the contact between the papacy and Norway, reviewed in the present journal in 2018 (Brégaint 2018). The volume under review takes a different approach, as it focuses on the work of Scandinavian scholars in the Vatican Archives since access to the archives was granted in 1881. The book under review consists of an introduction and articles on Scandinavia and the Vatican Archives, in the following referred to under their present name from 2019, the Apostolic Archive (Archivio Apostolico). Six contributions are revised papers from a conference in Stockholm in 2016.