torsdag 16. oktober 2025

New publication: Arnfastus Monachus

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For the past six months, I have worked as a co-editor of the online encyclopedia Medieval Nordic Literature in Latin , hosted by the Univers...
mandag 29. september 2025

Saint Michael in Lübeck

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  Today is the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, famous in medieval art as a fighter against the Devil and as a weigher of souls. Often,...
søndag 28. september 2025

A list of published articles

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Recently, the website academia.edu updated its terms and conditions to include a clause that would allow the website to utilise all uploaded...
lørdag 27. september 2025

Reading-spots, part 8

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  Earlier this month, I was in Trondheim for a conference and also to perform a kind of personal pilgrimage. I went to university there, and...
torsdag 11. september 2025

Same woodcuts, different saints – towards a methodology for establishing minor saints

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  One of the several challenges when researching the cult of saints is to assess the relative importance and popularity of any given saint. ...
søndag 24. august 2025

Cantigas de Compostela, part 4 - Saint Bartholomew

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  Today is the feast of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, who - according to Latin medieval tradition - had evangelised in India, where he had ...
onsdag 20. august 2025

New publications, part 3 - Coinage, the Cult of Saints, and the Legitimization of Elites in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Poland and Norway

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  In the present blogpost, I wish to present the third and final of my three co-authored articles that were published in a recent volume (fo...