New publication: Randmerknader som levd religion?

Earlier today I was notified about the publication of the article "Randmerknader som levd religion?" (Marginal notations as lived religion?" in the latest issue of the Swedish journal of history Scandia. This was a special issue dedicated to the subject of lived religion in premodern Northern Europe, guest edited by Sara Ellis Nilsson and Terese Zachrisson of the project Mapping Lived Religion hosted by Linnaeus University and University of Gothenburg.

I was kindly invited to participate in this special issue, which led to the writing of my most speculative article yet, an article that aims to make a case for interpreting marginal notations as expressions of lived religion. My case study was a late-medieval Catholic legendary housed at the Protestant school Herlufsholm in Denmark at the turn of the eighteenth century. The article is in Norwegian, but an abstract in English can be found here. Abstracts of the other articles of the issue can be found here. The articles will become open access late in the spring of 2023. 

The article gave me a chance to explore some books familiar to me from previous projects, but from a new angle. Hopefully, this pilot study will contribute in some way to new knowledge being extracted from the book collection of Herlufsholm, which is currently kept in the special collections of the University of Southern Denmark.