Dick Harrison

Dick Harrison is Professor of History at Lund University. He was editor of the eight-volume Sveriges historia (History of Sweden) and co-host of the accompanying TV4 series. His books include The Early State and the Towns: Forms of Integration in Lombard Italy, AD 568–774 and Ett stort lidande har kommit över oss (A Great Suffering Has Come Upon Us), which is a history of the Thirty Years’ War, based on eyewitness accounts. In 2000, he was awarded the literary award Augustpriset for Stora döden (The Great Death), his book on the fourteenth-century plague.