Richard Cole is Assistant Professor of Medieval European History at Aarhus University. He has published extensively on medieval Scandinavian topics, and his first book is forthcoming from the Viking Society for Northern Research, The Death of Tidericus the Organist. Plague and Conspiracy Theory in Hanseatic Visby. He has previously held positions at Harvard University, the University of Notre Dame, and University College London. For more information about Richard, click here.