fredag 28. november 2014

The sleder way - A fifteenth-century satirical carol on mortality

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      We are soon entering Advent, a season for songs and carols. I’m very fond of the musical traditions of Christmas and its songs,...
tirsdag 18. november 2014

Orlando the Beaver

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Self-castrating beaver Royal 2 B VII , English psalter, between 1310 and 1320 Courtesy of British Library In a recent blogpo...
mandag 10. november 2014

Flores Historiarum, pt. V - Danish responses to the call for crusade

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  The Scandinavian effort in the history of the Crusades is an aspect often overlooked in the more general overviews of this movement, ...
søndag 2. november 2014

Norwegian history as it never happened - or, A Lesson in Norwegian Particularism

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I'm a medievalist, and I'm often reminded of why the study of history is important. To me it's about challenging grand narrat...
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fredag 31. oktober 2014

Harald Fairhair and his dead queen

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Halloween is traditionally a time for gory tales, and even though this is not a deep-rooted phenomenon in my native Norway, I will this ...
søndag 12. oktober 2014

The Secret Life of Beavers

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 The beavers ( castor ) is so named from being castrated. Beavers are hunted for their testicles, which are good for medicine; when a hu...
tirsdag 7. oktober 2014

Boccaccio's Sicily

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On the road from the airport to Palermo The hundred stories that comprise Bocaccio's Decameron take place in a wide...