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...
mandag 11. august 2025

New publications, part 2 - Saints and Legitimization of Bishoprics in Poland and Norway until c. 1200

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  In my previous blogpost , I provided a brief presentation of one of my three co-authored articles published last month. All these articles...
tirsdag 5. august 2025

New publications, part 1 - Sacral Strongholds. Nunneries as Sources of Legitimacy in Twelfth-Century Poland and Norway

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Last month saw the publication of one of the collections of articles pertaining to the project where I did my previous post-doc. The publica...
tirsdag 29. juli 2025

A saint against lightning - Saint Olaf and the bell at Moster Old Church

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  Today is the feast of Saint Olaf, the patron saint of Norway, who died at the Battle of Stiklestad north of Trondheim in 1030. He was decl...
torsdag 24. juli 2025

New publications, part 2 - The Younger Passio Kanuti – a reassessment of its historical context, its author, and its purpose

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  As mentioned in my previous blogpost, I am deligted to announce the publication of a volume containing an edition and translation of an an...
søndag 20. juli 2025

New publications, part 1 - Royal Blood - The Passion of St Cnut, King and Martyr

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  For the past two years, I have been collaborating with some colleagues in Odense, Denmark, on the publication of a new edition and transla...