Dr Chris Callow

Associate Professor in Medieval History at the University of Birmingham. He first studied in Iceland in the mid 1990s and has been going back regularly ever since. He followed his BA degree in Medieval Studies with a year studying Modern Icelandic in Iceland and then completing a PhD on medieval Icelandic history. The PhD contributed to his book, Landscape, Tradition and Power in Medieval Iceland (Brill). He has written several articles on topics related to early Iceland including on stories about female settlers, children and childhood, and the Black Death. He is currently writing a book on the way people in Iceland have thought about slavery over the centuries. Dr Callow’s research reflects his interdisciplinary interests. He has used sagas, laws, varied forms of archaeology, and place-names to try to understand both the realities of early Icelandic society and the way later people thought about it.