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Benat Elortza Larrea

Associate Professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Email
benat.e.larrea@nord.no
Phone
+4774022805
Study location
Bodø
Areas of expertise
History, Maritime history, Medieval history, Norwegian history, European history, War history, Legal history, Social history
MLItt in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Aberdeen, 2014.
PhD in History, University of Aberdeen, 2018.
Bernadotte Postdoctoral Fellow, Göteborgs universitet, 2019-2020
Senior Lecturer, Göteborgs universitet, 2020.
Associate Professor, Nord universitet, 2021-
My recent publications focus on researching the Scandinavian 'state formation' processes, and the transformation of military institutions that took place within the development of the Scandinavian kingdoms.
Further research interests include kingship and governance in the Middle Ages, Scandinavian legal history, maritime history and socio-economic relations in the medieval period, among others.
2025
A Guilty Conscience is a Small Price to Pay for the Safety of the Alpha Quadrant: Starfleet, Bellum Iustum, and War Crimes in the Star Trek Franchise War and Science Fiction: Imagining Organized Mass Violence between Past, Present, and Future 2025 - Beñat Elortza Larrea
2023
Polity Consolidation and Military Transformation in Medieval Scandinavia: A European Perspective, c.1035–1320 2023 - Benat Elortza Larrea
Aristocratic Women as Leaders of Dissent in Medieval Scandinavia: Source Misrepresentation, or Agency through Ultranormativity? Gender and Protest: On the Historical and Contemporary Interrelation of Two Social Phenomena 2023 - Benat Elortza Larrea
2021
Archaic Martial Traditions in High Medieval Scandinavia: A Glimpse of Viking Age Warfare? 2021 Viking - Norsk arkeologisk årbok - Beñat Elortza Larrea
Kinsmen, Friends or Mercenaries? Problematising the Presence of International Forces in Scandinavia between the Twelfth and the Fourteenth Centuries 2021 Scandia Journal of Medieval Norse Studies - Beñat Elortza Larrea
2020
The Transformation of Naval Warfare in Scandinavia during the Tweflth Century 2020 Journal of Medieval Military History - Beñat Elortza Larrea
2019
The North as Home: Proceedings from the Nordic Research Network 2017 2019 - Stefan Andreas Drechsler, Heidi Synnøve Djuve, Beñat Elortza Larrea, Deniz Cem Gülen
2025
Winter as Danger and Opportunity: Cold Weather in Scandinavian Military Theory and Practice during the Late Middle Ages 2025 War and the Arctic - Beñat Elortza Larrea
2024
Understanding medieval Scandinavian towns as military centres 2024 Skandinaviske middelalderbyer - Towns in Medieval Scandinavia - Benat Elortza Larrea
2023
Organiser, Workshop: Circumpolar history 2023 Research in circumpolar history - Miriam Tveit, Beñat Elortza Larrea
2022
Moving on: High-status foreigners as guests in medieval Scandinavian households 2022 Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse: Workshop - Benat Elortza Larrea
Kinsmen, Friends or Mercenaries? Problematising the existence of ‘international’ forces in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scandinavia 2022 18th International Saga Conference - Benat Elortza Larrea
2021
Medieval Scandinavia: The Downfall of the Kalmar Union 2021 medievalists.net - Beñat Elortza Larrea
Medieval Scandinavia: War, Plague, and the Beginning of the Kalmar Union 2021 medievalists.net - Beñat Elortza Larrea
2020
Medieval Scandinavia: The Rise and Fall of the Icelandic Commonwealth 2020 medievalists.net - Beñat Elortza Larrea
Medieval Scandinavia: The Formation of the Kingdom of Norway 2020 medievalists.net - Beñat Elortza Larrea
Medieval Scandinavia: Assemblies, Law-Giving and Language 2020 medievalists.net - Beñat Elortza Larrea
Medieval Scandinavia: The Rise and Fall of the Danish Kingdom 2020 medievalists.net - Beñat Elortza Larrea
Medieval Scandinavia: The Swedish Kingdom 2020 medievalists.net - Beñat Elortza Larrea
Medieval Scandinavia: The Finnish Peoples 2020 medievalists.net - Beñat Elortza Larrea
Medieval Scandinavia: Power Dynamics in the Viking Age 2020 medievalists.net - Beñat Elortza Larrea
Danish naval organisation in the late twelfth century - Of ships and men 2020 Medieval Warfare - Benat Elortza Larrea
The evolution of sieges in Scandinavia, ca. 950-1300 - From palisades to donjons 2020 Medieval Warfare - Benat Elortza Larrea
"The entire realm to the duke did fall" - The Swedish Brothers' War 2020 Medieval Warfare - Benat Elortza Larrea
2019
Naval warfare in Iceland - The Battle of Flóabardagi 2019 Medieval Warfare - Benat Elortza Larrea
2018
A grand victory during an hour of need - The Battle of Fimreite 2018 Medieval Warfare - Benat Elortza Larrea