My Albion

A chronicle of sundry adventures in England.

søndag 29. august 2021

The price of books in twelfth-century Denmark

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  In a recent blogpost , I wrote about an episode from the Danish town of Ribe which occurred in the twelfth century. The episode is recorde...
fredag 20. august 2021

A blogpost about my work in spring 2021

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In the period March to the middle of June this year I worked as a research assistant for the project Mapping Lived Religion at Linnaeus Univ...
torsdag 19. august 2021

To take the dragon by the nose - the iconography of dragonslaying by Paolo Uccello and Francisco Ibáñez

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  One of the great joys of being a medievalist is to explore how aspects from the Middle Ages - such as ideas, literary topoi or iconography...
tirsdag 10. august 2021

An interdict from Saint Lawrence's day - ecclesiastical conflict in twelfth-century Ribe

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Today, August 10, is the feast of Saint Lawrence, an early Christian saint made famous, in part, through his inclusion in the hagiographic p...
lørdag 31. juli 2021

Norup Church

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These days I am reading up on Danish church history for a couple of papers that I need to write in the course of the autumn, and this has br...
lørdag 24. juli 2021

On statues, and how not to defend them

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  June last year, I wrote a blogpost in response to the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol. Since then, I have followed th...
torsdag 22. juli 2021

A note on Utøya, ten years after

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Today at noon, my father, who is the verger of our parish church, had the bells ring in commemoration of the victims of the massacre at Utøy...
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Steffen
Norwegian medievalist, bibliophile, lover of art, music and food. This blog is a mixture of things personal and scholarly and it serves as a venue for me to share things I find interesting with likeminded people.
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