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	Shami Ghosh <shami.ghosh@utoronto.ca> Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto I am a scholar of the history of medieval and early modern Germany, and of literature in the older Germanic languages (principally Old Norse and Middle High German). The main thematic areas of my research are social and economic history, medieval historiography in Latin and the Germanic vernaculars, and the Grail Romance in Germany.

Web Page:	http://utoronto.academia.edu/ShamiGhosh

List Affiliations:	Reviewer for H-German

Reviews:	Divergent Understandings of Medieval Landscapes Medieval Diplomacy: A Family Affair State Formation in Medieval Norway: Strong Kings and Weak Things? The World of the Nibelungs Revisited

Interests:	Classical Studies Early Modern History and Period Studies Economic History / Studies European History / Studies German History / Studies Intellectual History Literature Medieval and Byzantine History / Studies Religious Studies and Theology Rural History / Studies Urban History / Studies

Bio: BA (German), King's College London, 2003 MA (Medieval Studies), University of Toronto, 2005 PhD (Medieval Studies), University of Toronto, 2009 SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, School of History, University of Leicester, 2009-10 Fellow by Examination, Magdalen College, Oxford, 2010-13 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2014-15 Research Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2015-16 Assistant Professor of Medieval History, Centre for Medieval Studies and Department of History, University of Toronto, 2016-. Publications: (i) Monographs: 1. Kings’ sagas and Norwegian history: problems and perspectives, The northern world, 54 (Leiden: Brill, 2011). [Reviews: Patricia Pires Boulhosa in The Medieval Review (June 2012): http://hdl.handle.net/2022/14578; Ármann Jakobsson in (Norsk) Historisk tidsskrift (2012), 3: 465–9; Sirpa Aalto in Saga-Book, 36 (2012), 140–2; Jane-Anne Denison in Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, 8 (2012), 105–6; Sverre Bagge in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 112 (2013), 98–100.] 2. Writing the barbarian past: studies in early medieval historical narrative, Brill's series on the early middle ages, 24 (Leiden: Brill, 2016). (ii) Articles: 1. ‘Forms of kinship: unresolved tensions in Wolfram’s Willehalm’, Euphorion, 97, 3 (2003), 303–25. 2. ‘On the origins of Germanic heroic poetry: a case study of the legend of the Burgundians’, Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 129, 2 (2007), 220–52. 3. ‘Condwiramurs’, Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, 82, 1 (2008), 3–25. 4. ‘Conquest, conversion and heathen customs in Henry of Livonia’s Chronicon Livoniae and the Livländische Reimchronik’, Crusades, 11 (2012), 87–108. 5. ‘The imperial abbey of Ellwangen and its peasants: a study of the polyptych of 1337’, Agricultural History Review, 62, 2 (2014), 187–209. 6. ‘The “great divergence”, politics, and capitalism’, Journal of Early Modern History, 19, 1 (2015), 1–43. 7. ‘Rural economies and transitions to capitalism: Germany and England compared (c.1200–c.1800)’, Journal of Agrarian Change (2015): doi: 10.1111/joac.12096. [Early View Article published online on 17 January 2015; the print version will appear in volume 15 of the journal in the same year.] 8. ‘How should we approach the economy of “early modern India”? A review article’, Modern Asian Studies (2015): doi: 10.1017/S0026749X14000596. [Published as the first part of a debate with Tirthankar Roy, including his response and my rejoinder to it; the print version of the article will appear in 2016.] 9. ‘A rejoinder to Tirthankar Roy’, Modern Asian Studies (2015): doi: 10.1017/S0026749X14000614. 10. Entries on ‘Historiography, Norwegian’, ‘Kings’ sagas’, and ‘Jarl’, in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Viking World, ed. Judith Jesch and Christina Lee (submitted August 2012; forthcoming 2015). Over 30 reviews and review essays published in H-German, Medium Aevum, Reviews in History, Sixteenth-Century Journal, Speculum, The Medieval Review, The Modern Language Review, and elsewhere.