fredag 17. mai 2024

After the interview - or, Correcting a big mistake

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This post is in response to a very big mistake I made last month. I should have known better, and it has bothered me profoundly ever since. ...
tirsdag 7. mai 2024

No soy peregrino - a first encounter with Santiago de Compostela

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Sunday morning I arrived in Santiago de Compostela after a long and arduous journey on the night bus from Madrid. I had underestimated the n...
lørdag 4. mai 2024

Saint Florian and the fire

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Today, May 4, is the feast of Saint Florian. According to legend, he was killed during the Diocletian persecution, and his main cult centre ...
fredag 3. mai 2024

Synchronicity in Madrid - encountering Equatorial Guinea

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As all human beings, I experience coincidences that might loosely fit under the term 'synchronicity', that elements that are themati...
lørdag 27. april 2024

Random resonances - the Law of the Gulathing Province and the First Book of Samuel

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As a historian, I am trained to look for patterns and connections in history. Not in the sense of how the learned understood history in the ...
tirsdag 23. april 2024

Saint George in Vienna - the protector and the shield

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  Today is the feast of Saint George, who, according to his legend, was a Roman soldier martyred during the Diocletian persecutions of the e...
lørdag 13. april 2024

New publication: 'Saints and Urban Medievalism: The Case of Saint Knud Rex in Modern-Day Odense'

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  Earlier this week, I was notified about the publication of the collection of articles  Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their ...