Historian @ USN, works on Vikings, 19th and 20th C. Nationalism and Medievalism, and have a passion for food and occasionally gardening. Based in Notodden.

Joined April 2010
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Karl Chr. Alvestad retweeted
If you're working on #medieval #landscapes - it's still time to send in your proposal for #imc2026 about medieval #landscapes in and beyond time 🙂
The Landscape Consortium invites papers to explore the question 'When is a landscape'? for its #cfp for #IMC2026
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Driving from Notodden to Drammen for work was very motivating this morning because I listened to the excellent @ecrpodcasters and @lauravarnam. Thank you so much for the podcast!
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Karl Chr. Alvestad retweeted
Next up is Karl Alvestad @Karlwinch of the University of South-Eastern Norway talking about women’s history, the Norwegian curriculum, and teacher education! #MissingMatter24
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Karl Chr. Alvestad retweeted
The Middle Ages in the Modern World conference (MAMO) returns! 24-26 June 2025, London (King's College Strand Campus). Visit themamo.org/ for more details and see our Call For Papers below. All aspects of medievalism welcome.
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Karl Chr. Alvestad retweeted
CFP Deadline extended for #queensresources 2025 online workshops to 31 October! We are running 2 workshops in Jan (theme: #queenslands & natural resources) & April (theme: women, econ resources & warfare), pls RT & pass on to colleagues/students, thanks! queensresources.org/post/upd…
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Karl Chr. Alvestad retweeted
We'll be extending the #CFP for another 5 days - so power up your word processing apps, write those words down & send us an abstract for the @IMC_Leeds, the #Landscape Sessions - #Landscapes of #Learning until the 25th of Sept. Why are you still idling over this? Go write! 😆
Pleased to share that @ape_astronaut, @Karlwinch, @kateweikert, @JW_Fr and me will be organising sessions on the topic of '#Landscapes of Learning' for next year's #IMC2025. Please feel free to share our #CfP widely 😉
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Karl Chr. Alvestad retweeted
Extended deadline! For anyone who only caught the #CfP in yesterday’s @royalstudies newsletter, you can send me your proposal this week for ‘The Exercise of Power and Rulership (c.1000-c.1400): Europe and Beyond’. Online conference over four half-days, 20-23 Nov 2024.
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Karl Chr. Alvestad retweeted
Still not planned your IMC 2025 paper? Why not send us your proposal?
Pleased to share that @ape_astronaut, @Karlwinch, @kateweikert, @JW_Fr and me will be organising sessions on the topic of '#Landscapes of Learning' for next year's #IMC2025. Please feel free to share our #CfP widely 😉
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Karl Chr. Alvestad retweeted
Pleased to share that @ape_astronaut, @Karlwinch, @kateweikert, @JW_Fr and me will be organising sessions on the topic of '#Landscapes of Learning' for next year's #IMC2025. Please feel free to share our #CfP widely 😉
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Karl Chr. Alvestad retweeted
Please consider submitting a chapter for this stunning new volume, due to be published with the Old Norse series @thetrivent ! ✨
Call for Book Chapters: Communication in Crisis! We're interested in how communication played a key role in navigating, resolving, & exacerbating crises in the Middle Ages, as well as how individuals & societies responded to crises through communication. 👉shorturl.at/4QZga
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In today's #S1028 @imc_leeds #IMC2024, co-organized by @kateweikert, @WinchesterHist alumnus @Karlwinch presents his paper, 'Crisis of Identity: Landscape and Belonging in Medieval and Modern Upper Telemark'. Great to still be collaborating with you, Karl!
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Karl Chr. Alvestad retweeted
More on the find of a lost reliquary at Stavanger Cathedral!
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇴Latest news from the excavations at Stavanger Cathedral, team of archaeologists from Arkeologisk museum, UiS have found the reliquary box of St Swithun of Winchester - Patrion Saint of Stavanger). Long believed burnt 500 years ago. vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/0V… @WinCathedral
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Karl Chr. Alvestad retweeted
Artikkel på forskning. no: ‘I nærmere 500 år trodde man det ble sendt til Danmark og smeltet om under reformasjonen. Nå kan det vise seg at relikvieskrinet til Stavangers skytshelgen aldri forlot Domkirken.’ #arkeologi #stavanger #middelalder forskning.no/arkeologi-histo…
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Karl Chr. Alvestad retweeted
Siste nytt fra utgravingene i Stavanger domkirke via VG: ‘Arkeologer fra Arkeologisk museum ved Universitetet i Stavanger fant nylig restene av relikvieskrinet med armbeinet til byens skytsengel, St. Svithun av Winchester.’ @UniStavanger #Arkeologi vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/0V…
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Karl Chr. Alvestad retweeted
The lost reliquary of St Svithun of Winchester, patron Saint of Stavanger, Norway has been discovered. It was thought to have been melted down during the Reformation.
Artikkel via @adresseavisen ‘Restene ble funnet gjemt i krypten under det nordre tårnet i Stavanger domkirke (..) Dette til tross for at man i nesten 500 år trodde at relikvieskrinet ble sendt til Danmark og smeltet om under reformasjonen.’ adressa.no/nyheter/innenriks… #arkeologi
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Just visited Holla church ruin, the remains of a 12th century church in Telemark dedicated to St. Mary. Heavily restored in the 1920s.
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It's been a long and tough semester. But it somehow feels worth it when I discovered my students had left this on my desk.
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Help needed: what is the source? Early 20th c. Textbooks in Norway contain a quote by Charlemagne where he claims I can't learn to write because he's too used to the sword. It sounds like a paraphrasing of Einhard, but I'm not sure. Any suggestions? #medievalTwitter
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