Christopher Callow

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I would welcome research students on a wide range of issues in the history and archaeology of early medieval western Europe, especially the Vikings and medieval Iceland and Scandinavia. Research proposals on social, cultural or economic history within particular medieval regions or communities would also be possible. I have published on the writing of history in the middle ages and would be interested in supervising similar topics on medieval narratives.

Current doctoral research students and their topics:
- Julie Kilbey, Childhood in Anglo-Saxon England (co-supervised with Dr Kate Sykes)
- Agni Papamichael, Icelandic perceptions of Byzantium (co-supervised with Prof Judith Jesch)

Past PhD students and subjects:
- Harriet Clarke, Kingship in medieval Norway (co-supervised with Prof Judith Jesch)
- Emma Thompson, Gender and burial practice in Viking Age Scandinavia (MRes, co-supervised with Paul Garwood)
- David Marsh, The Trade in Roman Glass (co-supervised with Dr Roger White)
- Steve Walker, Early medieval Cumbria (co-supervised with Dr John Baker)
- Bernadette McCooey, Pre-industrial farming practices in Iceland
- Ryder Patzuk-Russell, Education in medieval Iceland
- Emma Southon, The early medieval family

Research activity per year

8 Chapter
5 Article
4 Book/Film/Article review
1 Book

18 results

2022

The study of Icelandic place-names
Callow, C., 2022, Names, Texts and Landscapes in the Early Middle Ages. A Memorial Volume for Duncan W. Probert.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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9 Downloads (Pure)
Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland. This Spattered Isle. By OrenFalk. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. xiii + 358 pp. £75. ISBN 978 0 19 886604 6.
Callow, C., 14 Dec 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Early Medieval Europe.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

Open Access
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34 Downloads (Pure)
2021

Julio Escalona, Orri Vésteinsson and Stuart Brookes (Eds.): Polity and Neighbourhood in Early Medieval Europe. Turnhout, Brepols, 2019, XVIII + 430 pp.
Callow, C., Apr 2021, In: Historia Agraria. 83, p. 261-266 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

Open Access
2020
Landscape, Tradition and Power in Medieval Iceland: Dalir and the Eyjafjörður region c.870-c.1265
Callow, C., 6 Aug 2020, Leiden: Brill. 352 p. (The Northern World; vol. 80)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2017

Dating and Origins
Callow, C., 14 Feb 2017, The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas. Jakobsson, Á. & Jakobsson, S. (eds.). Ashgate, 26 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Open Access
File

3 Citations (Scopus)

418 Downloads (Pure)
2016
The mystery of plague in medieval Iceland
Callow, C. & Evans, C., 2016, In: Journal of Medieval History. 42, 2, p. 254-84 31 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
File
4 Citations (Scopus)

1738 Downloads (Pure)
2012

'Left over Romans: life course in the Late Antique West'
Callow, C. & Harlow, M., 15 Mar 2012, Families in the Imperial and Late Antique World. Harlow, M. & Larsson Loven, L. (eds.). Continuum
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Putting women in their place? Gender and landscape in Iceland's national medieval colonisation narrative.
Callow, C., 21 May 2012, In: Viking and Medieval Scandinavia. 07/2011, 7, p. 7-28 21 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2010

Iceland's medieval coastal market places: Dögurðarnes in its economic, social and political context
Callow, C., 2010, Strandsteder, utvikinglingssteder og Småbyer i vikingtid, middelalder og tidlig nytid (ca.800-ca.1800). Brendalsmo, J., Gansum, T. & Eliassen, F.-E. (eds.). Oslo, p. 213-229
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
People, climate and landscape in medieval Iceland and beyond?
Callow, C., Levene, M., Johnson, R. & Roberts, P., 1 Jan 2010, History at the End of the World? History, Climate and the Possibility of Closure.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Review of Oral Art Forms and their Passage into Writing. Edited by Else Mundal and Jonas Wellendrof
Callow, C., 1 Jan 2010, In: Early Medieval Europe. 18, 4, p. 480-482 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
2009

Iceland's medieval costal market places: Dogurdarnes in its economic, social and political context
Callow, C., 2009, Den urbane underskog: Strandsteder, utvikslingssteder og smabyer I vikingtid, middelalder og tidlig nytid. Brendalsmo, J., Eliassen, F.-E. & Gansum, T. (eds.). Novus
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2008

A Climatic warning from history
Callow, C. & Mouhot, J., 1 Jul 2008, In: BBC History. 9, 7, p. 42 (1 page article)
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Review of West Over Sea. Studies in Scandinavian Sea-Borne Expansion and Settlement Before 1300. A Festschrift in Honour of Dr Barbara E. Crawford. Edited by Beverley Ballin Smith, Simon Taylor and Gareth Williams. The Northern World 31. Brill. Leiden, 2007. ISBN 978 90 04 15893 1. xxix + 581 pp. 68 illustrations
Callow, C., 1 Jan 2008, In: Saga-Book of the Viking Society. XXXII, p. 110-111 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
2006

First steps towards an archaeology of children in Iceland
Callow, C., 1 Jan 2006, In: Archaeologia Islandica. 5, p. 55-74 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Geography, Communities and Socio-Political Organization in Medieval Northern Iceland
Callow, C., Davies, W., Halsall, G. & Reynolds, A., 1 Jan 2006, People and Space in the Middle Ages, 300-1300. Davies, W., Halsall, G. & Reynolds, A. (eds.). Brepols Publishers, (Studies in the Early Middle Ages).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Reconstructuring the past in medieval Iceland
Callow, C., 1 Aug 2006, In: Early Medieval Europe. 14, 3, p. 297-324 28 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

10 Citations (Scopus)
2004

Narrative, Contact, Conflict, and Coexistence: Norwegians in Thirteenth-Century Iceland
Callow, C., Adams, J. & Holman, K., 1 Jan 2004, Scandinavia and Europe 800-1350. Contact, Conflict, and Coexistence.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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