By Stefan Pajung and Mihkel Mäesalu This month’s blog post is about the benefits of the exchange of knowledge in historical research and history writing – which will be illustrated through the case of Prince of Otto of Denmark, Duke of Estonia. It so happened, that when Mihkel came to visit me in Copenhagen in…
Authors: Mihkel Mäesalu and Stefan Pajung, Carlsberg fellowship grantees. Historical research works in peculiar ways. Sometimes historians discover new facts, but choose not to give significance to them and so these facts can remain unknown to the wider circle of history enthusiasts. This is the case with the possessions of the Teutonic Order in Medieval…
On the 15th of June 2019, on the day of the 800th anniversary of the Dannebrog, we, Mihkel Mäesalu from the University of Tartu and Stefan Pajung from the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle, were awarded “HM Queen Margrethe II Distinguished Research Fellowship” by the Queen of Denmark herself in order to do…
What traces have the former relations between the Danes and Estonians left in the history and historical memory of our countries? This will be studied by Estonian and Danish researchers in the Carlsberg Foundation fellowship project, in cooperation with the Frederiksborg Museum of National History, Tallinn City Museum and the University of Tartu. On 15…