mandag 30. januar 2023

Unexpected consequences of saint scholarship

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  Most of my professional life revolves around saints and the imprint of their cult and veneration on society. As a consequence, I easily no...
lørdag 28. januar 2023

Some brief reflections on canon and genius

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Among the many bees in my professional bonnet is the issue of canon formation: how some works become singled out as being of particular valu...
søndag 22. januar 2023

The Svingerud stone - the world's oldest dateable rune stone

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  Yesterday I went to the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo to buy a book, and also to check whether the world's oldest dateable rune ...
onsdag 18. januar 2023

Saint Margaret's in winter

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Last Sunday, two friends and I took a trip to a lake called Maridalsvann north of Oslo to visit the ruins of the Church of Saint Margaret. T...
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onsdag 28. desember 2022

A year in reading - 2022

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  My last blogpost for 2021 was an overview of some highlights from my year in reading, as well as a few other book-related moments. For so...
mandag 26. desember 2022

Saint Stephen and Saint Knud Rex - the typology of martyrdom in twelfth-century Odense

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  Today, December 26, is the feast of Stephen Protomartyr, one of the relatively few Christian saints attested in the Bible, and one of an e...
torsdag 8. desember 2022

New publication: Randmerknader som levd religion?

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Earlier today I was notified about the publication of the article "Randmerknader som levd religion?" (Marginal notations as lived ...