Christian Cooijmans British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow University of Liverpool Commons username: @ccooijmans Twitter handle: ccooijmans Mastodon handle: @ccooijmans@hcommons.social Following 24 members View ProfileActivitySites 0Following 24Followers 14Groups 4ForumsDocs Academic InterestsMedieval HistoriographyMerovingian and Carolingian EuropeViking Age archaeologyViking Age History Commons GroupsHCEarly MedievalLate Medieval HistoryMedieval StudiesThe Medieval landscape/seascape Recent Commons Activity deposited Hostile in Tent: Reconsiderin… in the group The Medieval landscape/seasca… deposited Hostile in Tent: Reconsiderin… in the group Early Medieval AboutChris studied medieval history at Utrecht University, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Edinburgh, and was a recent Postdoctoral Fellow at Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH). His current research at the University of Liverpool explores the reach and repercussions of viking activity across the Frankish realm, as well as its subsequent, premodern historiography. Education PhD in Scandinavian Studies – University of Edinburgh (2018) MSc in Medieval History – University of Edinburgh (2013) BA in Language and Culture Studies (Medieval and Celtic Studies Track) – Utrecht University (2012) Mastodon FeedPress release from UiO is found here: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/projects/making-a-warrior/news/groundbreaking-global-survey-to-uncover-public-per.html (2025-02-11 ↗)I hadn't posted this on here yet, so here it is: The Great Viking Survey is currently firing on all cylinders. As a global study on how people view and connect with the viking world as history and heritage, it invites anyone, anywhere, to share their thoughts on vikings and their legacy! Let us see the Viking Age through your eyes at https://vikingsurvey.org (2025-02-11 ↗)No matter how often you've been, Charlemagne's palatine chapel in Aachen (c. 795-805) remains a sight to behold. Although much tinkered with over the centuries, the octagon survives as a foremost example of Carolingian architecture, and is the only intact part of the wider palace complex. (2024-09-26 ↗)Cologne Cathedral looking rather majestic in the early morning light. 🌅 (2024-09-24 ↗)It's not every day that my work gets published in Japanese, so I'm thrilled to see that the talk I gave last year on vikings in the Frankish realm at the University of Tokyo has now appeared in Clio: Journal of European studies (クリオ, OA) https://repository.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/records/2010097 (2024-08-07 ↗) Blog Posts PublicationsMonographs Cooijmans, Christian. Monarchs and Hydrarchs: The Conceptual Development of Viking Activity across the Frankish Realm (c. 750-940) (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020). https://www.routledge.com/9780367202149 Book Chapters Cooijmans, Christian. “Hostile in Tent: Reconsidering the Roles of Viking Encampment across the Frankish Realm,” in Viking Camps: Case Studies and Comparisons (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023), 147-167. https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003347682-9. Cooijmans, Christian. “Viking Dorestad: A Haven for Hydrarchy?” in Dorestad and its Networks: Communities, Contact and Conflict in Early Medieval Europe (Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2021), 19-28. http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/xbme-xq10. Cooijmans, Christian. “An Adversary for the Ages: The Historiography of Viking Activity in the Late Medieval Low Countries – A Preliminary Survey,” in The North as Home (London: Norvik Press, 2019), 12-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/30e5-me40. Journal Articles Cooijmans, Christian. “Annales Fontanellenses,” Apardjón Special Volume ii (2022). https://doi.org/10.17613/vxx4-0947. Cooijmans, Christian. “Down by the River: Exploring the Logistics of Viking Encampment across Atlantic Europe,” Viking lxxxiv, Special Volume 1: Viking Wars (2021): 187-206. https://dx.doi.org/10.5617/viking.9051. Cooijmans, Christian. “Remembered Remedies from England? An Early Veterinary Charm at St. Gall,” Notes and Queries 67:1 (2020): 6-7. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjz188. Cooijmans, Christian. “The Controlled Decline of Viking-Ruled Dorestad,” Northern Studies 47 (2015): 32–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/nq2e-bk29. Edited Volumes Cooijmans, Christian, ed. Islands of Place and Space: A Festschrift in Honour of Arne Kruse (Edinburgh: Scottish Society for Northern Studies, 2022). https://www.ssns.org.uk/monograph/islands-2022. Cooijmans, Christian, ed. Traversing the Inner Seas: Contacts and Continuity in and around Scotland, the Hebrides, and the North of Ireland (Edinburgh: Scottish Society for Northern Studies, 2017). https://www.ssns.org.uk/monograph/inner-seas. Cooijmans, Christian, Ian Giles, Laura Chapot, Ryan Foster, and Barbara Tesio, eds. Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North (London: Norvik Press, 2016). http://nordicresearchnetwork.weebly.com/beyond-borealism.html. Book Reviews Cooijmans, Christian. “Frisians of the Early Middle Ages (ed. J. Hines and N. IJssennagger-van der Pluijm), 2021,” Speculum 98:3 (2023): 883-884. https://doi.org/10.1086/725641. Cooijmans, Christian. “Onvoltooid verleden (Lisa Demets), 2020,” The Medieval Low Countries 9 (2022): 181-184. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.mlc.5.134622. Cooijmans, Christian. “Viking-Age Slavery (ed. M. Toplak, H. Østhus, and R. Simek), 2021,” Óenach: Reviews 11 (2022): 9-15. https://hcommons-staging.org/deposits/item/hc:44497. Cooijmans, Christian. “Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom (Fiona Edmonds), 2019,” English Historical Review 136:581 (2021): 1014-1016. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceab093. Cooijmans, Christian. “Frisians and their North Sea Neighbours (ed. J. Hines and N. IJssennagger), 2017,” English Historical Review 134:568 (2019): 667-669. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cez077. Media Cooijmans, Christian. “Plunder, Pillage, and Power-ups: Four Decades of Vikings in Video Games”. Epoch (2023). Cooijmans, Christian. “Beyond hostility and hypermasculinity: why we need to think differently about the vikings”. BBC History Extra (2022). Cooijmans, Christian. “Hideouts, harbours and homes: how vikings may have owed their success to their encampments”. The Conversation (2021). Memberships Fellow – Royal Historical Society Fellow – Society of Antiquaries of London Fellow – Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Committee Member / Editor – Scottish Society for Northern Studies Contributor – International Medieval Bibliography, University of Leeds Member – Viking Society for Northern Research
