onsdag 30. januar 2019

The hagiographic function of liturgy - the case of a motet for Saint Sebastian

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Our modern minds, so accustomed to neat categorisations and precise labels, are often struggling to understand the fluidity between mediev...
lørdag 26. januar 2019

A Pre-Raphaelite Notebook - poem by Geoffrey Hill

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This is one of the most haunting and evocative poems by Geoffrey Hill, and I read it during my awakening to the importance of art as well...
onsdag 16. januar 2019

Delight in transgression - notes from teaching the Middle Ages

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Last year around Easter I was invited to the school of my village to talk about the Middle Ages. I took the opportunity to introduce som...
tirsdag 15. januar 2019

Translating the lexicon of sainthood - rethinking virtus

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Since 2010 I have been researching the cult of saints, and since 2011 I have been doing translation work of texts pertaining to saints, fo...
mandag 31. desember 2018

A commemoration of Saint Thomas of Canterbury in the Nidaros liturgy

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Today, December 31, is the feast of Pope Silvester I, famous for converting Constantine the Great to Christianity and for defeating a pes...
onsdag 26. desember 2018

Eg synger jolekvad - a Christmas hymn in translation

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For the Christmas season, I wish to present to you one of the musical staples of Norwegian Christmas in my part of the country.The song in...
søndag 16. desember 2018

Call for academic help - a liturgical prose text from Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek RARA Musik M 4

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For a year and a half I have been working with a set of fragments from a collection of old books housed at Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek....