onsdag 28. februar 2024

The vanity of exploration - or, The discovery of Bouvet Island prefigured?

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This spring, I am teaching a course on utopian thinking in the Middle Ages. The course is designed for MA students, and to prepare a good fo...
tirsdag 27. februar 2024

Lecture: Science, faith and superstition in Utopia

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  Last Tuesday, February 20, I had the honour of giving a lecture in the lecture series of the Science, Faith and Superstition seminar serie...
torsdag 22. februar 2024

Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Vienna

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The past few months have been a blur of travels and museum visits, so I am still sorting through the photographic souvenirs to decide which ...
tirsdag 20. februar 2024

Saint Olaf in Frogner Church - medievalism as a form of protest?

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  This weekend, I attended a service at Frogner Church in Oslo. It is a beautiful structure, consecrated in 1907, and built in a neo-Romanes...
tirsdag 30. januar 2024

The moon over Saint Rupert's Church

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In the middle of January, I spent ten days in Vienna as part of a work-stay organized by the project where I am currently working as a postd...
lørdag 27. januar 2024

My quest for Austrian poetry

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  Wednesday, I came back from a ten-day trip to Vienna. For the most part, it was a work-stay, where I and some colleagues spent our time pr...
lørdag 20. januar 2024

Saint Sebastian in Vienna Cathedral

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Today is the feast of Saint Sebastian, a saint with whom I am inexplicably fascinated - inexplicably because I cannot define exactly what fa...