My project ‘Rome and Scandinavia in the Late Middle Ages’ seeks to provide a holistic account of the activities of the Nordic community in Rome during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Existing scholarship on this subject has generally been divided along national lines, despite the fact that Swedes, Danes and Norwegians tended to congregate together in Rome and were often treated as a single undifferentiated cultural group by others in the city; moreover, this earlier research has also tended to focus on specific aspects of the Scandinavian presence in Rome rather than attempting to look at the broader picture. Thus, to give some examples of this, supplications to the Apostolic Penitentiary from Sweden and Norway have been extensively studied and analysed in recent years, while those from Denmark have received relatively scant attention, and while the activities of the Swedish hospice at what is now Casa di Santa Brigida have been studied fairly extensively, rather less has been written about the links of Scandinavians to other pilgrim institutions in Rome. The purpose of my project is therefore to try to knit together the diverse threads of existing scholarship and also fill in the gaps in previous research, in order to provide a comprehensive overview of the links between Rome and the Scandinavian kingdoms at the close of the Middle Ages.