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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...
onsdag 24. juli 2024

New publication: Holy Bishops, Papal Canonisation and the Legitimisation of Power in Thirteenth-Century Norway and Poland

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  As part of the project where I have been employed for the past three years, I have co-authored an article with my friend and colleague Gre...
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 ...
tirsdag 12. desember 2023

Plains and deep dells - contrasts of reading

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  As I have often emphasized when writing about reading, I do enjoy those occasions when the contrast between what is being read and the pla...
onsdag 29. november 2023

Monastic typology and institutional identity in Tyniec Abbey

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  As part of a sojourn in Krakow, I joined an excursion to Tyniec Abbey, a Benedictine monastery a short distance southwest of the city. The...
søndag 29. mai 2022

Signs of our times - details from a week in Warsaw

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During my stay in Warsaw this week, I saw numerous displays of Polish solidarity with the Ukrainians in the ongoing invasion. These ubiquito...
lørdag 28. mai 2022

A view from the common room - some brief reflections on a week in Warsaw

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  One of the benefits of the project where I am currently working is that the collaboration across borders allows for some long-awaited trav...
onsdag 3. november 2021

Conference: The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central Europe and Scandinavia until 1300

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  Next week, from Monday November 8 to Tuesday November 9, I am co-organising a conference as a part of the project where I am currently emp...
torsdag 21. oktober 2021

Surrounded by simulacra - my first encounter with Warsaw

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This week I spent two days in Warsaw for a work trip. Since we – my colleagues and I – had a short timeframe for discussing professional mat...