Blar i Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion

Being Persian in Late Mamluk Egypt: The Construction and Significance of Persian Ethnic Identity in the Salons of Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906–922/1501–1516)

Mauder, Christian (Journal article, 2020)

People identified as Persians constituted one of the most prominent groups of nonlocal inhabitants in Mamluk Egypt, and earlier scholarship has paid considerable attention to Egyptian-Persian relations. Nevertheless, the ...

Being safe from what and safe for whom? A critical discussion of the conceptual metaphor of ‘safe space’

Flensner, Karin K; Lippe, von der, Marie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01-18)

Safe space, used in educational settings as a metaphor, stresses the importance of the classroom being a learning environment characterised by respect and safety. Based on examples from Swedish and Norwegian classroom ...

Better than Orgasm: Sex, Authenticity and Intimacy in the New Women's Movement in Norway

Hellesund, Tone (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

Authenticity and intimacy have become key expectations in contemporary romantic relationships. At the same time, it is taken for granted that sex forms a part of such relationships. This article explores how the relationship ...

Book review: Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies by Oliver Freiberger, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019

Stausberg, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

Caminoization at Sea: The Fjord Pilgrim route in Norway

Selberg, Torunn; Mikaelsson, Lisbeth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

Based on official church and public-sector documents and texts related to the Fjord Pilgrim Route, we discuss how a process of Caminoization is expressed in Norway, both in relation to how this new invention relates to the ...

The chronological, sedimentary and environmental context for the archaeological deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa

Jacobs, Zenobia; Jones, B.G.; Cawthra, H.; Henshilwood, Christopher; Roberts, R.G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-01)

The site of Blombos Cave (BBC) is well known for archaeological remains that have advanced our understanding of the development of modern human behaviour during the Middle Stone Age (MSA). Occupation of the cave occurred ...

Church and Cultures in the Catholic Missionary Renewal of the Early 20th Century: Critical Issues in the Thought of Costantini, Manna, and Vanzin

Marinaccio, Roberto (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

This article investigates the relationship between the church and indigenous cultures in the field of missionary renewal in the early 20th century, focusing on three influential Catholic figures: Celso Costantini, Paolo ...

Climate Change in Urban Biographies: Stage, Event, Agent

Seland, Eivind Heldaas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

How do archaeologists understand the relationship between climate, climate change, and urban biographies? In this article, I argue that urban biographies should be approached as the life stories they claim to be, with ...

Consecrated Virgins as Living Reliquaries in Late Antiquity

Undheim, Sissel; Ivanovici, Vladimir (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09-30)

This article discusses the ways in which the physical presence of consecrated virgins was perceived, described, and subsequently altered in Late Antiquity. In the course of the fourth and fifth centuries CE, through codes ...

Contested legacies of early modern colonialism in Norway: A summary of the 2020 debates on Ludvig Holberg and Jørgen Thormøhlen

Slettebø, Thomas Ewen Daltveit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

The Cosmology of Lists in Ancient and Contemporary Societies

Gilhus, Ingvild S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

This essay is my keynote address to the conference Religions, Science and Technology in Cultural Contexts: Dynamics of Change, NTNU, Trondheim (2012), on the topic of ‘lists’: omen compendia, lists of gods, lists of the ...

Covid-1984. En studie av motnarrativ om koronatiltak

Fjell, Tove Ingebjørg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

The first Covid-19 infection in Norway was discovered in February 2020, and within two weeks the country went into lockdown. Covid-19, or corona, resulted in a number of measures, such as closing down schools and kindergartens, ...

CREST (Climate REconstruction SofTware): A probability density function (PDF)-based quantitative climate reconstruction method

Chevalier, Manuel; Cheddadi, Rachid; Chase, Brian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11-28)

Several methods currently exist to quantitatively reconstruct palaeoclimatic variables from fossil botanical data. Of these, probability density function (PDF)-based methods have proven valuable as they can be applied to ...

The cryptic case of Otomys sloggetti (Sloggett’s vlei rat): Interpreting murid molar morphology in the fossil record

Matthews, Thalassa; Nel, Turid Hillestad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

Vlei rats (Family: Muridae; Subfamily: Otomyinae) have a widespread distribution in southern Africa. They are favoured prey of barn and spotted eagle owls, and frequently become associated with archaeological deposits when ...

The Cult of St.Ólafr in the Eleventh Century and Kievan Rus´

Antonsson, Haki (Journal article, 2003)

Cultural diversity on the fringe of the Empire. Review of Ted Kaizer (ed.): Religion, Society, and Culture at Dura-Europos (2016).

Meyer, Jørgen Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)