søndag 30. oktober 2022

New publication: Symbolic Crucifixion and Royal Sainthood: Two Examples from Benedictine Saints’ Lives (c. 985-c. 1120)

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  Today, I was notified of the publication of a collection of article to which I was fortunate enough to contribute with an article of my ow...
lørdag 29. oktober 2022

A brief appreciation for the pathetic in literature

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Today I finished reading a work I had been looking forward to for a few years already, namely the novel El anacronópete (1887) by Enrique G...
mandag 24. oktober 2022

Outdated materiality in the library

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libros cuyas páginas, finalmente, aprendí a cortar, para no comprobar, meses después, que estaban intactos    books whose pages I at last ...
lørdag 22. oktober 2022

Learning to see a question in context

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  This autumn is my first full term of teaching at the University of Oslo since my employment there a year ago. During that past year, I hav...
torsdag 29. september 2022

Knowing that we do not know; knowing how we do not know

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When working in the humanities, it is easy to develop a certain instinctive response to the various forms in which we encounter a widesprea...
søndag 25. september 2022

Achronology as a cultural force, part 2

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  In my previous blogpost , I described how achronology’s ability to blur and obfuscate people’s understanding of the past could impact cul...

Achronology as a cultural force, part 1

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  I can see through time            - Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons S05E13          As a historian, I am trained to divide history into p...