Dr Chris Callow

Associate Professor in Medieval History at the University of Birmingham. 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. He is author of Landscape, Tradition and Power in Medieval Iceland (Brill, 2020). He is currently writing a book on the way people in Iceland have thought about slavery over the centuries. Chris’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.