Takahiro Narikawa

I took double-master in Japan and in Norway, and currently engage in writing my doctoral dissertation.

My ongoing doctoral research project mainly concerns the ecclesiastical administration of the Norwegian archbishop in the Church Province of Nidaros during the 13th and 14th century, especially focusing on its changing nature over the period.

The Church Organization in Medieval West and its principles underwent profound changes during the High Middle Ages. Centralization of the Organization and revolution of legal principles within the church, both initiated by the Roman Popes, epitomize such trends of the time.

My study takes up the church province of Nidaros, Norway, situated in the north-westernmost part of Latin Christendom, an example, and aims at clarifying the active/ passive engagement of churchmen towards these trends to strengthen their position within the archbishopric, as well as the dissemination of the trends through the interventions outside, such as the papal provision.

At the same time, this research will also illustrate an hitherto not well-scrutinized aspect of the incorporation of the Nordic church into emerging Latin-Christian order at that period.