torsdag 30. desember 2021

A year in reading - 2021

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  I am an indifferent diarist, both because I lack the required stamina and because my life is not sufficiently interesting to warrant much ...
søndag 26. desember 2021

San Esteban in Segovia

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  Today is the feast of Stephen Protomartyr, whose death by stoning is recorded in Acts 7 and came to be a ubiquitous scene in pictorial pro...
onsdag 15. desember 2021

Rediscovering work done in a pandemic

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This autumn, the main purpose of my paid job is to do research and write articles. It is a phenomenal luxury to do so, and while it keeps me...
tirsdag 14. desember 2021

The Middle Ages as a litmus test

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  The other day, I was shown an excerpt from a recently published book that aimed to provide a reinterpretation of human history, and as a m...
tirsdag 30. november 2021

Back to the old haunt - a brief note about a workshop in Odense

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  A little over a week ago, I was able to travel back to Odense in order to participate in a workshop on fragments of medieval manuscripts. ...
fredag 26. november 2021

Achronology and exoticism - the past as a muddled country

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  My thinking was: very olden days; almost mythical; so 1628 - Philippa Perry, Richard Osman's House of Games S05E59 Earlier this ...
lørdag 20. november 2021

Jetmundkyrkja - The church of Saint Edmund in Åheim, Norway

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  Today is the feast of Edmund of East Anglia, a king who was killed by Danish raiders in 869, and who shortly afterwards became the subject...