Astrid Nilsson

My research focuses on historiography, especially 16th century Sweden, and marginalia, but I also devote myself to a well-known 14th-century translation into Latin of Marco Polo's famous travelogue.

My main project at the moment is about something else: a Latin dissertation from 1685, De draconibus (On Dragons). It will be an article and a translation with a short commentary and introduction that will be published in the series Bibliotheca Neolatina Upsaliensis. The project is funded by one of the Ohlsson Foundations in Lund.

I am preparing an article about Erik XIV's surviving books and his use of contemporary images as inspiration for the images in the work, linked to my monograph on the subject (2021) as well as a new project on the use of sources in older historiography.

My most recently completed projects are one about Swedish identity in 16th-century historiography, and one about the description of Luther's followers and Lutheranism in another historical work from the same period.