Contents: Introduction, Kerstin Hundahl and Lars Kjær. Part I Religious Culture: The settlement of disputes by compromise according to some early Danish charters, Kim Esmark; Byzantinizing crucifixes in central medieval Denmark: how, when and why, Ebbe Nyborg; Motherhood as emotion and social practice: Mary and Anne as maternal models in medieval Iceland, Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir; The Black Friars and the Black Death: effects of the plague on friars preachers in 14th-century northern Europe, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen. Part II Intellectual Culture: Contacts between Denmark and Flanders in the 11th and 12th centuries: the tiniest of evidence, Steffen Harpsøe; Banking on - and with - the Victorines: the strange case of Archbishop Eskil’s lost deposit, Mia Münster-Swendsen; The transformation of the Danish language in the central Middle Ages: a case of Europeanization?, Niels Houlberg Hansen; Two journeys and one university: King Christian I and Queen Dorothea’s journeys to Rome and the foundation of the University of Copenhagen, Carsten Jahnke. Part III Legal Culture: The Church law of Scania on the consecration of churches and the appointment of parish priests: international canon law and that of Scania, Bertil Nilsson; Dating the laws of medieval Denmark: studies of the manuscripts of the Danish church laws, Per Andersen; Regional or central? Legislation and law in 13th-century Denmark, Helle Vogt; Border warfare between king and pope in late medieval Denmark: a case study of royal politics towards ecclesiastical benefices and papal provisions c. 1350-1525, Per Ingesman. Part IV Aristocratic and Court Culture: Apocalypse then? The First Crusade, traumas of war and Thomas de Marle, Thomas Kristian Heebøll-Holm; Rune, knives and Vikings: the Valdermarian kings and the Danish past in comparative perspective, Lars Kjær; Placing blame and creating legitimacy: the implications of Rügish involvement in the struggle over the succession amidst the Danish church strife c.1258-1260, Kerstin Hundahl. Index.