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Historians in conversation - Dr Grethe Jacobsen

How do historians build their career, what motivates them and how they deal with professional and personal challenges? What shapes their professional path? Dr Michael Green from the Faculty of Philosophy and History welcomes you to his podcast, where he will be inviting interesting guests to explore their stories.

Dr Grethe Jacobsen is an independent (retired) researcher, with two PhD degrees, and is renowned for her work on late Medieval women history. Her scholarly endeavours took her from her native Denmark to the United States and then back to Denmark, where she received a job a the Danish Royal Library. The conversation today revolves around the inspiration to engage with history, even when it did not become a source of income, and the benefits one can receive from historical research.

Grethe Jacobsen’s publications in English include: “The Celtic Element in the Icelandic Population and the Position of Women”, Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana, XLIV (Opuscula, XII), (2005): 284-303.

“Monasteries and Convents as Crown Fiefs, 1500-1600 – Especially for (Noble) Women?”. The Dissolution of Monasteries. The case of Denmark in a Regional Perspective, edited by Per Seesko, Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, Lars Bisgaard. Odense, University Press of Southern Denmark, 2019, 57-74.

“Confronting Women’s Actions in History. Female Crown Fief Holders in Denmark.” Challenging Women’s Agency and Activism in Early Modernity, edited by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2021, 107-117

Hello and welcome to the 18th episode of my podcast Historians in Conversation, which is hosted by the University of Lodz in Poland. My name is Michal Green and my guest today is Dr. Greta Jakobsen, a retired independent scholar who made an important impact on the history in Denmark because she studied women who up until that time were absent from research. Greta did not receive a permanent research position at the university, instead she was working at the Royal Library of Copenhagen. ...