Publications
Ruiter, Keith. 2021. ‘Legal Custom & Lex Castrensis?: Using Law and Literature to Navigate the North-Sea Neighbourhood in the Late Viking Age’, in Britain & its Neighbours: Cultural Contacts & Exchanges in Medieval & Early Modern Europe, ed. by Dirk H. Steinforth & Charlie Rozier, New York: Routledge, Routledge Themes in Medieval and Early Modern Histories, 105-20.
Ruiter, Keith. 2020. ‘Berserks Behaving Badly: Manipulating Normative Expectations in Eyrbyggja saga’, in Narrating Law and Laws of Narration in Medieval Scandinavia, ed. by Roland Scheel, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Ergänzungsbände 117, 171-184.
Ruiter, Keith. 2019. ‘A Deviant Word Hoard: A Study of Non-Normative Terms in Early Medieval Scandinavia’, in Social Norms in Medieval Scandinavia, ed. by Jakub Morawiec, Aleksandra Jochymek, & Grzegorz Bartusik, Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, Beyond Medieval Europe, 201-212.
Ruiter, Keith & Steven P. Ashby. 2018. ‘Different Strokes: Judicial Violence in Viking-Age
England and Scandinavia’, in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 14, 153-184.
Kyriakou, Aristea, Jan Peter Loovers, Anette Moir, Eleanor Peers, & Keith Ruiter. 2018.
‘Sharing a Voice: Early-Career Scholars and the Arctic.’ in Education in the North 25.1, 181-185.
Ruiter, Keith. 2014. ‘Visibility, Authority, and Execution in Heimskringla.’ in Illuminating the
North: Proceedings from the Nordic Research Network Conference 2013, ed. Agnes Broomé and others, London: Norvik Press, 119-132.
Eliuk, Steven, Keith Ruiter, & Pierre Boulanger. 2011 ‘Classifying HIV-1 Circulating Recombinant Forms.’ in Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology vol. 2, 447-453.
Projects
Renegotiating Early Law in Scandinavia and Iceland:
Culture, Custom, and Practice in the Viking Age and Beyond
May 2021-May 2023:
SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (ref: 756-2021-0499)
Université de Montréal, Département d’anthropologie, Canada
- Beginning a transdisciplinary project applying Indigenous legal studies approaches to medieval Scandinavian customary law. Placed in the Laboratoire d’archéologie publique and supervised by Dr Katherine Cook, this project seeks to foster dialogue between legal traditions and makes use of cutting-edge dissemination strategies to maximize public engagement.
- Additional support and mentorship provided through a Fellowship awarded by Western Michigan University’s Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors.
Memberships
Higher Education Academy – Associate Fellow
Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada – Member
Canadian Society of Medievalists – Member
Viking Society for Northern Research – Member
Sällskap för östnordisk filologi – Member