Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, Dr.Philos., is the director of Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab (The Danish Society for Language and Literature). She defended her doctoral thesis on Historiography at the Court of Christian IV at the University of Bergen in 1999 (published by Museum Tusculanum Press in 2002). Her publications include a number of studies on and translations of medieval and early modern Scandinavian Latin literature. She is currently working on a new edition of Historia de Profectione Danorum in Hierosolymam with comments and critical apparatus (and an English translation by Peter Fisher).
