Historian @ USN, works on Vikings, 19th and 20th C. Nationalism and Medievalism, and have a passion for food and occasionally gardening. Based in Notodden.
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!
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
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.
ALT The Middle Ages in the Modern World is a revived conference about the ways in which the Middle Ages have been received, imagined, invoked, relived, used, abused, and refashioned in the modern and contemporary worlds.
Proposals are invited for papers, panels, linked panels, readings and events for the 5th MAMO conference. Creative and scholarly work from any discipline on any aspect of medievalism is welcome, but we are particularly interested in addressing:
Inclusivity and exclusivity; the struggle to claim the medieval; medievalist activism
Relationships between the medievalisms of scholarship, creative work, heritage and cultural industries
Performance and re-enactment of the medieval
Continuities: living and working with medieval buildings and institutions
Local, national and global medievalisms; medievalisms of London
The history and current state of medievalism studies
Chaucer reception in all forms from the manuscripts to the present day
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…
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! 😆
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.
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.
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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!
🏴🇳🇴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
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#middelalderforskning.no/arkeologi-histo…
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#Arkeologivg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/0V…
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
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