My Albion
A chronicle of sundry adventures in England.
lørdag 4. mai 2024
Saint Florian and the fire
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Today, May 4, is the feast of Saint Florian. According to legend, he was killed during the Diocletian persecution, and his main cult centre ...
fredag 3. mai 2024
Synchronicity in Madrid - encountering Equatorial Guinea
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As all human beings, I experience coincidences that might loosely fit under the term 'synchronicity', that elements that are themati...
lørdag 27. april 2024
Random resonances - the Law of the Gulathing Province and the First Book of Samuel
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As a historian, I am trained to look for patterns and connections in history. Not in the sense of how the learned understood history in the ...
tirsdag 23. april 2024
Saint George in Vienna - the protector and the shield
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Today is the feast of Saint George, who, according to his legend, was a Roman soldier martyred during the Diocletian persecutions of the e...
lørdag 13. april 2024
New publication: 'Saints and Urban Medievalism: The Case of Saint Knud Rex in Modern-Day Odense'
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Earlier this week, I was notified about the publication of the collection of articles Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their ...
lørdag 6. april 2024
The early cult of saints – an attempted history
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[The following is an attempt at a brief history of the development of the Christian cult of saints in the first 500 years. This period saw...
søndag 24. mars 2024
Trondheim without worms - echoes of a lost legend of Saint Olaf?
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In medieval art, Saint Olaf of Norway is commonly depicted standing on top of a figure. The nature of this figure appears to have changed ov...
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