Browsing Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and the History of Religions by Title
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Church and Cultures in the Catholic Missionary Renewal of the Early 20th Century: Critical Issues in the Thought of Costantini, Manna, and Vanzin
(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 ... -
Cicero: den ideelle romerske guvernør? -en komparasjon av romerske guvernører 73-50 f.kr
(Master thesis, 2018-06-16) -
Civil rights and civil responsibilities. How The Unionist Party perceived and responded to the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland 1968-1972
(Master thesis, 2010-05-17)This thesis contains a analys of the Unionist Party's preception and respons to the Northern Irish civil rights movement. The thesis sets out to explore how the civil rights movement influenced the events leading up to the ... -
The Classical World in a Norwegian Workers' Encyclopedia: Arbeidernes Leksikon (1931–1936)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The Norwegian Arbeidernes leksikon, “Workers’ Encyclopedia,” was published in six volumes from 1931–1936. It was inspired by The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, explicitly aimed at working-class readers, and establishing an ... -
Climate Change in Urban Biographies: Stage, Event, Agent
(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 ... -
Climate-Related Adaptations in the Human Skull: A Review of the Different Contemporary Theoretical Models and Methods
(Master thesis, 2023-11-20)Questions regarding our ancestral species have always appealed to our curious side. Our first ancestral species lived in arboreal settings before gradually adapting to a more open, terrestrial environment. It can be observed ... -
Colosseum og det store teateret i Pompeii. En arkeologisk analyse om hvordan arkitekturen skiller samfunnsklassene
(Master thesis, 2014-05-12)Det store teateret i Pompeii ble i lang tid brukt som en underholdningsarena, fra starten i det andre århundre f.Kr., til sin forsvinning under asken i år 79 e.Kr. Teateret gjennomgikk mange forandringer som sørget for at ... -
Comparative analysis of Early Bronze Age burials - A study in burial customs in Upper Egypt, Lower Nubia and the Sinai desert
(Master thesis, 2013-05-14)I have considered different research history on cemeteries from areas in Upper Egypt, Lower Nubia and the Sinai from the Early Bronze Age. The methodological approach was mainly based on comparison however it was also based ... -
Conceptions of Correctio: The Rhetorical and Argumentative Use of Correctio in the Letters of Alcuin of York (c.732-804)
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15)Denne masteroppgaven setter søkelys på brevsamlingen til Alcuin av York, en av de lærde mennene som mot slutten av 700-tallet samlet seg ved Karl den store sitt hoff i Frankia. Alcuin var en viktig pådriver av karolinger ... -
Conimbriga - En romersk by i Lusitania Rolle, funksjon og samhandling med Lusitania og den romerske verden
(Master thesis, 2010-05-17)Denne avhandlingen hadde som mål å kartlegge den romerske byen Conimbriga, som lå i provinsen Lusitania. Problemstillingen var hva slags by dette var, hvilken rolle byen spilte, og hva slags funksjon den hadde, både i sitt ... -
Consecrated Virgins as Living Reliquaries in Late Antiquity
(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 ... -
Contemporary Yoga: Legitimizing authenticity. Interviews with founders of yoga schools in Rishikesh
(Master thesis, 2017-06-10)Dette prosjektet presenterer en analyse av hvordan grunnleggere av yoga skoler i Rishikesh definerer autentisk yoga. Analysen er basert på et fire måners feltarbeid i Rishikesh, Uttarakhand nord i India som innebar deltakende ... -
Contested constitutions. Constitutional development in the Sudan 1956-2005.
(Master thesis, 2014-05-14)The topic for this Master thesis is Constitutional Development in Sudan from 1956-2005. This thesis concentrates on the constitutional history in the Sudan, with an emphasis on the country's four implemented constitutions ... -
Contested legacies of early modern colonialism in Norway: A summary of the 2020 debates on Ludvig Holberg and Jørgen Thormøhlen
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The Coptic Translation of Epiphanius of Salamis's Ancoratus and the Origenist Controversy in Upper Egypt
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Two manuscripts from around the 9th and the 10th century bear witness to a Coptic translation of the Ancoratus, originally written in Greek by Epiphanius, bishop of Salamis, in 374. Like his more famous sequel to this work, ... -
The Cosmology of Lists in Ancient and Contemporary Societies
(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 ... -
Cotton import to Norway 1835-1920. Import, industrialization and globalization.
(Master thesis, 2021-06-16) -
Covid-1984. En studie av motnarrativ om koronatiltak
(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
(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 ...