Anders Winroth
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Anders Winroth is a history professor at Yale University
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After graduation from Stockholm University
, Winroth did his master's and doctoral studies at Columbia University
under Robert Somerville
. He worked on the Decretum
of Gratian
. He discovered that the original version was only about half the size of the commonly known text. Winroth also has a strong interest in Swedish genealogy.
Winroth was a 2003 MacArthur Fellow.
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
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After graduation from Stockholm University
Stockholm University
Stockholm University is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. It has over 28,000 students at four faculties, making it one of the largest universities in Scandinavia. The institution is also frequently regarded as one of the top 100 universities in the world...
, Winroth did his master's and doctoral studies at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
under Robert Somerville
Robert Somerville
Robert Eugene Somerville is the Ada Byron Bampton Tremain Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Columbia University, New York. He has taught at Columbia since 1969, except for a year at the University of Pennsylvania Somerville did his doctoral work under Stephan Kuttner at Yale...
. He worked on the Decretum
Decretum Gratiani
The Decretum Gratiani or Concordia discordantium canonum is a collection of Canon law compiled and written in the 12th century as a legal textbook by the jurist known as Gratian. It forms the first part of the collection of six legal texts, which together became known as the Corpus Juris Canonici...
of Gratian
Gratian (jurist)
Gratian, was a 12th century canon lawyer from Bologna. He is sometimes incorrectly referred to as Franciscus Gratianus, Johannes Gratianus, or Giovanni Graziano. The dates of his birth and death are unknown....
. He discovered that the original version was only about half the size of the commonly known text. Winroth also has a strong interest in Swedish genealogy.
Winroth was a 2003 MacArthur Fellow.