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- Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
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- Latin
- Centre for Languages and Literature
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- Latin
- Centre for Languages and Literature
- Division of Book History
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail elisabet.goranssonctr.luse
Phone +46 046 222 90 62
Room
LUX: B120
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LUX:B120
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Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
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Box 201, 221 00 Lund
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Associate Professor in Latin. Thesis, "Letters of a Learned Lady" on Sophia Elisabet Brenner's correspondence (1659-1730). Previous projects/publications: edition of Skara Missal, the Ars edendi research programme (Stockholm University), coordinating and editing the book "The Arts of Editing Medieval Greek and Latin: A Casebook" (PIMS, Toronto 2016); Formative Wisdom (VR, Lund Univ), Cultural evolution of texts (RJ), Handbook of Stemmatology: History, Methodology, Digital Approaches (coeditor, De Gruyter 2020). I started a new network on textual scholarship, "TextVid Öresund" (funded 2021-2023), and is project leader for the project "Knowledge, magic and horse medicine in Late Antiquity" (VR, 2021-2025). During 2022-2024 I also participate in the project "Authority, community and individual freedom - Latin monastic culture and the roots of European educational ideals . I teach Latin, palaeography and textual criticism.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Negotiating Pure Doctrine. Manuscripts Reflecting the Theological Disputes of the later Swedish Reformation Period. (Infrastructural project funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation)
- Critical edition of five Medieval offices (Eskilli, Helenae, de Domina in Sabbatis, de spina corone and Brynolphi) with Swedish translation, introduction and commentary. (research leader)
- Formative Wisdom. The Reception of Monastic Sayings in European Culture: Scholarly Collaboration on a Digital Platform.
Books (1)
Editorships (2)
- Göransson, E., Iversen, G., Crostini, B., Jensen, B. M., Kihlman, E., Odelman, E. & Searby, D. (2016). (Eds.) The Arts of Editing Medieval Greek and Latin : a Casebook. Studies and Texts, 203. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
- Jönsson, A., Lindgärde, V. & Göransson, E. (2011). (Eds.) Wår lärda Skalde-fru : Sophia Elisabet Brenner och hennes tid. Språk- och litteraturcentrum. Skåneförlaget.
Articles (2)
- Göransson, E., Maurits, L., Dahlman, B., Sarkisian, K. Å., Rubenson, S. & Dunn, M. (2022). Improved distance measures for “mixed-content miscellanies” : An adaptation for the collections of sayings of the desert fathers and mothers. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Oxford University Press.
- Göransson, E., Golub, K., Foka, A. & Huvila, I. (2020). Digital Humanities in Sweden and Its Infrastructure : Status Quo and the Sine Qua Non. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 35, 547-556. Oxford University Press.
Book chapters (12)
- Göransson, E. (2022). Paleografi. In Nordin, J. (Ed.) Mediehistoriskt arkiv, Kodex : Boken i medeltidens Sverige (pp. 95-133), 54. Mediehistoriskt arkiv.
- Göransson, E. (2021). Studying the “Pelagius and Johannes” collection of Sayings of the Desert Fathers : Steps towards a new edition of the Latin reception. Studia Patristica, Studia Patristica. Vol. CXXIV : Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019. Volume 21: Hagiographica; Ascetica; Martyria., 124, 75-89. Peeters Publishers.
- Göransson, E. (2019). The identification, definition and typology of manuscript lacunae. Digital and Analytical Approaches to the Written Heritage : Proceedings of the 7th international conference El'Manuscript "Heritage and Information Technologies", 2018, 79-96. Gutenberg Publishing House.
- Göransson, E. (2017). Vad är en disciplin? Om det gränslösa latinet och ämnets position vid Lunds universitet. In Nilsson, A. M., Damtoft Poulsen, A. & Svensson, J. (Eds.) Humanitas. Festskrift till Arne Jönsson (pp. 790-803). Makadam förlag.
- Göransson, E. (2016). Connecting the Case Studies : Editorial Methods and the Editorial Circle Model. In Göransson, E., Iversen, G., Crostini, B., Jensen, B., Kihlman, E., Odelman, E. & Searby, D. (Eds.) Studies and Texts, The Arts of Editing Medieval Greek and Latin : a Casebook (pp. 400-429), 203. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
- Anonymous, (2008). Eugendus liv. In Rubenson, S. (Ed.) Svenskt patristiskt bibliotek : Asketer och munkar (pp. 159-179), V. Artos & Norma.
- Göransson, E. (2008). Tidigmodern textåtervinning. Om studiet av tidigmoderna latinska texter. In Beskow, P., Borgehammar, S. & Jönsson, A. (Eds.) Förbistringar och förklaringar. Festskrift till Anders Piltz. (pp. 289-296). Skåneförlaget.
- Göransson, E. (2006). Bilagor till editionen: Skaramissalets prefationer, Skaramissalets böner. In Pahlmblad, C. (Ed.) Skaramissalet. Studier, edition, översättning och faksimil av handskriften i Skara Stifts- och landsbibliotek.. Stiftelsen för utgivande av skaramissalet.
- Göransson, E. (2006). Editionen av Skaramissalet; Edition och översättning. In Pahlmblad, C. (Ed.) Skaramissalet. Studier, edition, översättning och faksimil av handskriften i Skara Stifts- och landsbibliotek.. Stiftelsen för utgivande av skaramissalet.
- Göransson, E. (2006). Skaramissalets text i relation till andra liturgiska källor. In Pahlmblad, C. (Ed.) Skaramissalet. Studier, edition, översättning och faksimil av handskriften i Skara Stifts- och landsbibliotek.. Stiftelsen för utgivande av skaramissalet.
- Göransson, E. & Nilsson, A.-M. (2006). Skaramissalets bindningsblad. In Pahlmblad, C. (Ed.) Skaramissalet. Studier, edition, översättning och faksimil av handskriften i Skara Stifts- och landsbibliotek.. Stiftelsen för utgivande av skaramissalet.
- Göransson, E. (2000). Konsten att hylla en polyglott. Mångspråkighet och språkpatriotism i ljuset av ett brev. In Jönsson, A. & Piltz, A. (Eds.) Språkets speglingar. Festskrift till Birger Bergh (pp. 301-308). Skåneförlaget.
Conference contributions (4)
- Göransson, E., Hoppe, A., Gudmundsson, D. & Kärrholm, S. (2021). How to transmit best practice experience of digital tools and resources : the pragmatic approach. In Santesson, S. & Mårtensson, K. (Eds.) Hållbart lärarskap: universitetsundervisning i förändring : Proceedings från Humanistiska och Teologiska fakulteternas pedagogiska inspirationskonferens 2020 (pp. 69-80). Lunds universitet, Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna.
- Göransson, E. (2014). Digital Tools in the humanities program 2014-2015.
- Göransson, E. (2012). Defining a subgenre. Aspects of imitation and intertextuality in the correspondence of learned women in early modern times. In Steiner-Weber, A. (Ed.) Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Upsaliensis (pp. 415-427), II. Brill.
- Göransson, E. (2002). Letters, learning and Learned Ladies - An Analysis of Otto Sperling, Jr:s (1634-1715) correspondence with Scandinavian Women. In van Houdt, T., Tournoy, G. & Matheeussen, C. (Eds.) Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia (pp. 199-223), XVIII. Leuven University Press.
Reports (1)
Reviews (4)
- Göransson, E. (accepted/in press). Review of M. Fontaine (ed.), How to tell a joke. An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Princeton University Press 2021. Opuscula: Annual of the Swedish Institutes At Athens and Rome, 15. Editorial Committee of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome.
- Göransson, E. (2018). Book Review of Ralph Hanna, Editing Medieval Texts: An Introduction, Using Exemplary Materials Derived from Richard Rolle, Super canticum 4. Speculum, 93. University of Chicago Press.
- Göransson, E. (2008). Bestseller för medeltida böneceller. Kyrkans tidning, 42. Svenska kyrkans press.
- Göransson, E. (2008). Nygammal medeltida bestseller. Uppsala Nya Tidning.
Newspaper articles (1)
Miscellaneous (2)

Researcher, Data Entry Officer, Directory Administrator, Programme Coordinator
- Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
Reader
- Latin
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Teaching Staff
- Latin
- Centre for Languages and Literature
- Division of Book History
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail elisabet.goranssonctr.luse
Phone +46 046 222 90 62
Room
LUX: B120
(researcher)
LUX:B120
(teaching staff)
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
(data entry officer, directory administrator, programme coordinator, researcher, teaching staff)
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
(reader, teaching staff)
Internal post code 30