søndag 29. september 2019

Saint Michael in Segovia, a modern medieval knight

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In my previous blogpost I ruminated briefly on the iconography on Saint Michael the Archangel for the occasion of today being Michaelmas, a...
lørdag 28. september 2019

Saint Michael in Roskilde

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Today, September 29, is the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel. Saint Michael is a popular figure in medieval Christian art, where he is...
torsdag 26. september 2019

Utopia - a poem by Wisława Szymborska

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One of my fascinations is how people imagine their ideal societies, their utopias, and I have a particular soft spot for stories that fles...
lørdag 21. september 2019

Saint Matthew in Ethiopia - an extract from the liturgical office for the feast of Saint Matthew

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Today is the feast of Saint Matthew the Evangelist. According to his apocryphal acts, which became accepted as historical truth, Matthew w...
fredag 30. august 2019

An antiphon for John the Baptist

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Yesterday, August 29, was the feast of the beheading of John the Baptist, also known as Decollatio in liturgical calendars. Decollatio is ...
tirsdag 27. august 2019

A new chapter

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This autumn I'm starting a new chapter in my life. Until the end of January, I will be working as a university lecturer in history at t...
torsdag 1. august 2019

Atlántida – or, the converging of modern medievalism and the legend of Atlantis, part 4

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This is the fourth and final blogpost in a series concerned with the application of the Atlantis myth in Ricard Ferrándiz' story Atlánt...