onsdag 29. april 2026

Reading-spots, part 10 - The wonders of Ireland

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  I am in Dublin for a conference, and the journey has been long albeit relatively smooth. For reading material, I brought my copy of an ear...
søndag 26. april 2026

Questions of continuity - sacred landscapes, Stiklestad, and the Christianisation of Norway

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One of the perennial questions when teaching or researching medieval Norway is whether the introduction of Christianity was a sudden rupture...
torsdag 23. april 2026

Saint George the kneeling knight - recycling images in the 1492 Lübeck Passionael

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  Today, April 23, is the feast of Saint George. He is a widespread figure in late-medieval iconography, and he is most famous for his battl...
tirsdag 21. april 2026

Saint Olaf in Aarhus, part 2 - the lost church

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As I mentioned in the first blogpost of this series, I have a particular fascination with the development of the cult of Saint Olaf of Norw...
tirsdag 31. mars 2026

A macabre coincidence - pen trials and the guts of Saint Erasmus

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History is full of macabre coincidences, and I encountered one such case over a week ago, as I was doing some research in the special collec...
søndag 29. mars 2026

Saint Olaf in Aarhus, part I - the altarpiece of the Church of Our Lady

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  Some day I will go to Aarhus  - Seamus Heaney, The Tollund Man   Last weekend I was in Aarhus, and this was a trip I had been looking forw...
onsdag 25. mars 2026

An annuncation from 1492

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Today, March 25, is the feast of the Annunciation, which commemorates the Archangel Gabriel's announcement to the Virgin Mary that she w...