Christian Cooijmans

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Archaeology

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Chris studied medieval history at Utrecht University, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Edinburgh. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Edinburgh's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Liverpool. His research has focused on the reach and repercussions of viking activity across the Frankish realm, as well as its subsequent, premodern historiography. At the University of Oslo, his work examines how ideas and images of Viking Age martial ideologies are shaped and perpetuated across the present-day public sphere.

Distinctions

Fellow, Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK
Fellow, Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), UK
Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA)
Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (FSAScot)

Tags: Viking Age, medieval history, medievalism, historiography, reception studies, memory studies

Selected publications

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. Open Access.
Cooijmans, Christian. “Annales Fontanellenses,” Apardjón Special Volume ii (2022). Open Access.
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. Open Access.
Cooijmans, Christian. Monarchs and Hydrarchs: The Conceptual Development of Viking Activity across the Frankish Realm (c. 750-940) (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020). Publisher Link.

Public Engagement
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).

Full list of publications at Knowledge Commons.

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Projects

Making a Warrior: the Social Implications of Viking Age Martial Ideologies