Biörn Tjällén

Universitetslektor|Senior Lecturer

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Select publications ”Aristotle’s heroic virtue and medieval theories of monarchy” In: Shaping Heroic Virtue - Studies in the Art and Politics of Supereminence in Europe and Scandinavia, [eds] Stefano Fogelberg Rota & Andreas Hellerstedt, (Leiden: Brill, 2015) ”John Barbour's Scholastic Discourse on Thraldom” 
In: Barbour's Bruce and its Cultural Context: Politics, Chivalry and Literature in Late Medieval Scotland, [eds] Steve Boardman & Susan Foran (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2015)
 ”Induced by the devil? Christian I and the privilegium canonis”
In: Constitutionalism Before 1789: Constitutional Arrangements from the High Middle Ages to the French Revolution, [ed] Sunde, Jørn Øyrehagen, (Oslo: Pax Forlag, 2014)
 ”Political thought and political myth in late medieval national histories: Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo (†1470)”,
In: The medieval chronicle, Vol. VIII (2013)
 ”Kungens biktfader: Andlig vägledning och politisk rådgivning vid senmedeltidens hov”, Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift (2012) Church and nation: The discourse on authority in Ericus Olai's Chronica regni Gothorum (c. 1471), (Stockholm University: Stockholm
2007)

Research projects

Current

Political Literatures

Publications

Articles in journals

Tjällén, B. (2023). From Error to Despair : Gerson’s Words of Caution about Conscience. Religions, vol. 14: 1  

Jezierski, W. , Nauman, S. , Lindkvist, T. & Tjällén, B. (2022). Sweden, Inc. : Temporal Sovereignty of the Realm and People from the Middle Ages to Modernity. Scandinavian Studies, vol. 94: 3, pp. 352-381.  

Tjällén, B. (2021). ‘King Bottomless Empty Purse’ : Taxes, Avarice and Pastoral Care in the Swedish Reign of Christian I (1457–64). Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 46: 2, pp. 172-195.    

Tjällén, B. (2016). Ericus Olai som historiker : replik till Andrej Scheglov. Historisk Tidskrift, vol. 136: 4, pp. 679-689.  

Tjällén, B. (2013). Political thought and political myth in late medieval national histories : Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo (†1470). The medieval chronicle, vol. VIII, pp. 273-288.

Tjällén, B. (2012). Kungens biktfader – andlig vägledning och politisk rådgivning vid senmedeltidens hov. Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, vol. 112, pp. 49-59.

Articles, book reviews

Tjällén, B. (2023). Recension av Staffan Bergwik, Linn Holmberg & Karin Dirke (red.), Konsten att kontextualisera: Om historisk förståelse och meningsskapande (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press 2022). Historisk Tidskrift, vol. 143: 2, pp. 258-261.

Tjällén, B. (2023). The contextualization art : About historical understanding and meaning-making. Historisk Tidskrift, vol. 143: 2, pp. 258-261.

Tjällén, B. (2018). Change of Rulers in Late Medieval Scandinavia : Action Patterns and Legitimization Strategies. Historisk Tidskrift, vol. 138: 2, pp. 352-354.

Tjällén, B. (2018). Charlotte Rock, Herrscherwechsel im spätmittelalterlichen Skandinavien : Handlungsmuster und Legitimationsstrategien. Historisk Tidskrift, vol. 138: 2, pp. 352-354.  

Tjällén, B. (2016). Finnen, svensken och Irlands uppror. Svenska Dagbladet,

Tjällén, B. (2011). Blockmans, W., Holenstein, A., & Mathieu, J. (eds.), Empowering Interactions : Political Cultures and the Emergence of the State in Europe 1300 – 1900. Zeitschrift für historische Forschung, vol. 38: 1

Tjällén, B. (2011). John Watts, The Making of Polities : Europe 1250—1500. Historisk Tidskrift, vol. 1

Chapters in books

Tjällén, B. (2023). Birgittines in Norrland : Agents of Church Reform and Sámi Conversion. In Birgittine Circles : People and Saints in the Medieval World. Stockholm : Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien (KVHAA Konferenser). pp. 193-218.

Tjällén, B. (2021). Lydnadsplikt och samvetsfrihet i medeltida biktlitteratur. In Samvete i Sverige : Om frihet och lydnad från medeltiden till idag. Lund : Nordic Academic Press. pp. 29-48.

Tjällén, B. (2021). Zion in the North : Jerusalem and the Late Medieval Histories of Uppsala. In Tracing the Jerusalem Code, Volume 1 : The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536). Walter de Gruyter. pp. 521-533.  

Tjällén, B. (2018). "Lappkvinnan Margareta" : Birgitinsk mystik och kyrkoreform i den senmedeltida omvändelsen av Sápmi. In Kvinnor och andlighet i norr : Historiska och litterära perspektiv. Skellefteå : Artos & Norma bokförlag (Studies on the religious history of the North). pp. 27-50.

Tjällén, B. (2018). Teaching virtue through the law : Justice and royal authority in Giles of Rome’s De regimine principum (c.1280). In Virtue Ethics and Education from Late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press.

Tjällén, B. (2017). Mod, militärpsykologi, militärsociologi och krigsetik i en medeltida furstespegel. In Mod i strid och filosofi : Dygdetiska perspektiv från Aristoteles till drönarkriget. Lund : Nordic Academic Press. pp. 43-59.

Tjällén, B. (2015). Aristotle’s heroic virtue and medieval theories of monarchy. In Shaping heroic virtue : studies in the art and politics of supereminence in Europe and Scandinavia. Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. pp. 55-66.

Tjällén, B. (2015). John Barbour's scholastic discourse on thraldom. In Barbour's Bruce and its cultural context : politics, chivalry and literature in late medieval Scotland. Cambridge : Boydell & Brewer. pp. 149-162.

Tjällén, B. (2014). Induced by the devil? : Christian I and the privilegium canonis. In Constitutionalism before 1789 : Constitutional arrangements from the High Middle Ages to the French revolution. Oslo : Pax Forlag (Nye perspektiver på grunnloven).

Tjällén, B. (2009). Svenska historiens pionjär : Ericus Olai. In Svenska historiker : Från medeltid till våra dagar. Stockholm : Norstedts Förlag.

Tjällén, B. (2008). "The Spiritual and Temporal Office of the King" : Confessional Anxieties in the Seventeenth-Century Editions of the Chronica regni Gothorum. In Hortvs troporvm : florilegivm in honorem Gvnillae Iversen : Festschrift in honour of Professor Gunilla Iversen on the occasion of her retirement as Chair of Latin at Stockholm University. Stockholm : Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. pp. 315-323.

Tjällén, B. (2007). Selling and rejecting politics with history : Historiography in defence of dualism and monarchy in late medieval and reformation Sweden. In Selling and rejecting politics in early modern Europe. Peeters : Leuven.

Collections (editor)

Haldén, P. (ed.) & Tjällén, B. (ed.) (2017). Mod i strid och filosofi : Dygdetiska perspektiv från Aristoteles till drönarkriget. Lund : Nordic Academic Press

Conference papers

Tjällén, B. (2017). Zion in the North : History, Hagiography and Heilsgeschichte in the First Chronicle of Sweden. Paper presented at the Ritual and Historiography in the Middle Ages, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 31 March – 2 April 2017

Doctoral theses

Tjällén, B. (2007). Church and nation : The discourse on authority in Ericus Olai's Chronica regni Gothorum (c. 1471). Dis. Stockholm : Historiska institutionen, 2007

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