Faculty of Humanities
Recent Submissions
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Embodying the spirit of the time: traumatic history in Vladimir Sharov’s fiction
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article focuses on two novels by Vladimir Sharov, Staraia devochka (The Old Girl) and Voskreshenie Lazaria (The Resurrection of Lazarus), that address the Stalinist repressions of the 1930s. Through analysis of these ... -
Religion-marked Spaces and Memories of Violence in Mumbai : Inhabiting and Remembering
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-06-10)Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay) is home to several religion-based segregated spaces, particularly of minority religions. In an ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2015-2018, I explore the relationship that inhabitants of ... -
Ancient Cities: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age
(Journal article, 2022)In this paper we present an overview of the Ancient Cities project’s outcomes and experiences with producing and testing digital educational material in the field of archaeology. In the first part, the Massive Open Online ... -
Trade, Traders, and Religion in Gateway-Cities of the Roman East
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Long distance merchants occupied socially liminal positions in pre-modern societies, operating across in-groups that were mostly defined by birth. This created a double need for social cohesion within the merchant collective ... -
Episk krig: Litt om linjen Homer, Herodot, Thukydid
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Follow the Pathfinders: a Case Study Approach to Production, Use, and Readership on Scalar
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This born-digital article examines the multimodal academic publication Pathfinders (Moulthrop and Grigar). Through a combination of interviews with readers and the author, textual analysis of the book, and literature review ... -
Introduction: Historical and contemporary South Asian religions
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Visions of the Nation and Feelings of Loss in the Works of Steen Steensen Blicher
(Chapter, 2021)The Danish writer Steen Steensen Blicher was an outstanding and influential voice of the Biedermeier period, known for stories such as The Robber’s Den (1827), The Rector of Veilbye (1829), and The Hosier and His Daughter ... -
Introduction. Post-truth – another fork in modernity’s path
(Chapter, 2021)This text provides an introduction to the volume as a whole, focusing on topics that were much discussed during its preparation and writing. It gives a critical overview of some main events, public and academic discussions, ... -
Governing the Median Estate: hyper-truth and post-truth in the regulation of digital innovations
(Chapter, 2021)This chapter focusses on governance of digital innovation, making two claims: first, that post - truth is not a mere surface phenomenon, but rather grounded in the general production of knowledge and ignorance. Second, it ... -
Early pilgrimage traditions in South Asia
(Chapter, 2021)This chapter looks at early history of pilgrimage in South Asia. Sacred sites that were believed to offer rewards to those who visited them have been a significant feature of South Asian religious traditions since at least ... -
Les livres français dans la Norvège médiévale : connexions culturelles, religieuses et sociales
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article discusses the ecclesiastical, cultural, and political connections between Norway and France during the High Middle Ages (c. 1150-1320) and the traces left by these connections in surviving manuscript material, ... -
CARLES MIRALLES†, VITTORIO CITTI, LIANA LOMIENTO, Eschilo: Supplici, Supplemento al Bollettino dei Classici 33, Roma: Bardi Edizioni, 2019, €40.00, 500 pp., ISBN: 978-88-218-1188-3
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)A vindication of the case of the Danaids as one of justice and self-defence is a more attractive reading of the tragedy and reconstruction of the trilogy than an assumption of error in the actions of the girls and their ... -
Widengren, Gnosticism, and the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule
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Divine intervention: Multimodal pragmatics and unconventional opposition in performed character speech in Dragon Age: Inquisition
(Pragmatics & Beyond New Series;327, Chapter, 2021)Videogames often take place in fictional worlds, yet the performed accents of game characters are real reflections of the language ideologies of a game’s creators and intended audience. This chapter demonstrates how these ... -
The Paradox of Palmyra: An Ancient anomalopolis in the Desert
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Palmyra, the UNESCO world heritage site that tragically made headlines following ISIS’s destruction of several of its key monuments in 2015, was once a thriving city in the heart of the Syrian Desert. Settled from Neolithic ... -
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The Sustainable Development Goals — Sensible Initiative or Just Nonsense? An Investigation of Norwegian Citizens’ Knowledge and Attitudes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Abstract: We explore what associations Norwegian citizens have with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through an analysis of their knowledge of and attitudes towards these goals. To achieve this, we combine three ... -
¿Escribía Lope de Vega con falsilla? Aproximación a El mayordomo de la duquesa de Amalfi y El perro del hortelano desde el Análisis de Redes Sociales
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)La crítica ha advertido repetidamente la semejanza entre 'El mayordomo de la duquesa de Amalfi' (¿1604-1606?) y 'El perro del hortelano' (¿1613?) de Lope Vega. Su temática y ambientación son algunos de los puntos en común ...
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