This blog is dedicated to the postdoctoral project FLANDRIA (Flanders, Norway, and Denmark: Relations and Intertextual Exchanges in the High Middle Ages ca. 1080-1383), which is funded by a three-year mobility grant from the Research Council of Norway. FLANDRIA examines the contact between Flanders, Norway, and Denmark in the High Middle Ages, and how this contact influenced Scandinavian manuscript culture. Flanders, especially Bruges, was a hub for trade and sea travel, where Scandinavians would disembark to continue their journey over land when having errands on the continent. To study how these interactions helped to shape manuscript culture, the project compares Norwegian and Danish manuscript material, which mostly survives in fragmentary form, to Flemish medieval books, integrating textual, codicological, and palaeographical aspects.

The blog will be used for posting updates on the project, including preliminary findings, as well as for sharing relevant news and events. It will be of interest to scholars interested in medieval Flanders and/or Scandinavia, religious and commercial networks, and manuscript studies.