• Dystopi og utopi i Oryx and Crake og The Road 

      Molven, Rannveig Leite (Master thesis, 2019-06-08)
      A Brief Summary In this master thesis I investigate how dystopic and utopic elements unfold in the two novels Oryx and Crake (2003), written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, and The Road (2006), written by the American ...
    • Død tro: Ibsens Gengangere i lys av Nietzsches filosofi 

      Haave, Jørgen (Master thesis, 2003)
    • Døden i kunsten. Andres Serranos fotoserie The Morgue 

      Nedrebø, Ingebjørg (Master thesis, 2018-06-15)
      Andres Serranos photo The Morgue (Death by Drowning II) represents death, but we have a rather ambivalent relationship with the dead body. The reactions to Serrano's photo series from the morgue demonstrate that different ...
    • De dødes levende tilstedeværelse - om gravskulpturens liv gjennom betrakterens erindring 

      Klingsheim, Silje (Master thesis, 2018-10-12)
      Mange besøker gravstedet til dem de er glad i for å minnes dem og for å få en følelse av "å være nær dem". Mange danner seg en historie eller et inntrykk av en persons liv gjennom gravmonumentets uttrykk, slik at man får ...
    • Dødsritualer blant koptisk-ortodokse kristne i Kairo, Egypt 

      Egeland, Erik K. E. (Master thesis, 2006)
    • E-Borges: Stuart Moulthrop’s Victory Garden 

      Seiça, Álvaro (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012)
      This essay analyses Stuart Moulthrop’s Victory Garden (1991), a singular hyperfiction within the context of hypertextual narratives released during the 90s. Taking into consideration the campus novel and anti-war novel ...
    • The Earliest Footprint of a Messianic Queen: Sarah the Ashkenazi in Amsterdam 

      van der Haven, Alexander (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      A record from 1 November 1655 of a donation to a certain Sarah from Poland is probably the first documented historical appearance of Sarah the Ashkenazi, future wife of messiah Sabbatai Tsevi. Individually recorded donations ...
    • Earliest human burial in Africa 

      Martinon-Torres, Maria; d'Errico, Francesco; Santos, Elena; Alvaro Gallo, Ana; Amano, Noel; Archer, William; Armitage, Simon James; Arsuaga, Juan luis; Bermudez de Castro, Jose María; Blinkhorn, James; Crowther, Alison; Douka, Katerina; Dubernet, Stéphan; Faulkner, Patrick; Fernández-Colón, Pilar; Kourampas, Nikos; González García, Jorge; Larreina, David; Le Bourdonnec, François-Xavier; MacLeod, George; Martín-Francés, Laura; Massilani, Diyendo; Mercader, Julio; Miller, Jennifer M.; Ndiema, Emmanuel; Notario, Belén; Marti, Africa Pitarch; Prendergast, Mary E.; Queffelec, Alain; Rigaud, Solange; Roberts, Patrick; Shoaee, Mohammad Javad; Shipton, Ceri; Simpson, Ian; Boivin, Nicole; Petraglia, Michael D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The origin and evolution of hominin mortuary practices are topics of intense interest and debate1,2,3. Human burials dated to the Middle Stone Age (MSA) are exceedingly rare in Africa and unknown in East Africa1,2,3,4,5,6. ...
    • Early anthropogenic use of hematite on Aurignacian ivory personal ornaments from Hohle Fels and Vogelherd caves, Germany 

      Velliky, Elizabeth; Schmidt, Patrick; Ludovic, Bellot-Gurlet; Sibylle, Wolf; Conard, Nicholas J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The Aurignacian (ca. 43–35 ka) of southwestern Germany is well known for yielding some of the oldest artifacts related to symbolic behaviors, including examples of figurative art, musical instruments, and personal ornaments. ...
    • Early Christianity in East Africa and Red Sea/Indian Ocean Commerce 

      Seland, Eivind Heldaas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11-18)
      The ancient East African kingdom of Aksum gradually adopted Christianity from the early- to mid-fourth-century reign of Ezana onwards. The well-known narrative of the late Roman church-historian Rufinus relates a top-down ...
    • Early Dutch presence in North America. The West India Company`s relationship with its Dutch patroonship 

      Abel, Jesper Nicolai (Master thesis, 2017-10-07)
      Denne oppgaven tar oss tilbake til sekstenhundre tallet og til den nederlandske kolonien i Nord-Amerika. Nærmere bestemt vil oppgaven ta for seg det Nederlandske vest-indiske Handelskompaniet, samt det nederlandske ...
    • Early human impacts and ecosystem reorganization in southern-central Africa 

      Thompson, Jessica; Wright, David K.; Ivory, Sarah J; Choi, Jeong-Heon; Nightingale, Sheila; Mackay, Alex; Schilt, Flora; Otarola-Castillo, Erik; Mercader, Julio; Forman, Steven L.; Pietsch, Timothy; Cohen, Andrew S.; Arrowsmith, J. Ramon; Welling, Menno; Davis, Jacob; Schiery, Benjamin; Kaliba, Potiphar; Malijani, Oris; Blome, Margaret W.; O'Driscoll, Corey A.; Mentzer, Susan M.; Miller, Christopher E.; Heo, Seoyoung; Choi, Jungyu; Tembo, Joseph; Mapemba, Fredrick; Simengwa, Davie; Gomani-Chindebvu, Elizabeth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-05)
      Modern Homo sapiens engage in substantial ecosystem modification, but it is difficult to detect the origins or early consequences of these behaviors. Archaeological, geochronological, geomorphological, and paleoenvironmental ...
    • Early pilgrimage traditions in South Asia 

      Jacobsen, Knut Axel (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 ...
    • Eastward and northward: a geographical conception of ‘Norðmannaland’ in Ohthere’s Voyage and its analogues in old Norse/Icelandic literature 

      Allport, Benjamin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The Old English account known as Ohthere’s Voyage preserves a ninth-century description of ‘Norðmannaland’ (the land of the Northmen) given by Ohthere, a sailor from northern Norway, at the court of Alfred the Great. In a ...
    • Ecclesiastical reform in historiographical context 

      Melve, Leidulf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-05-26)
      The article initially discusses recent approaches to ecclesiastical reform and the Investiture Contest. In particular, it discusses the extent to which recent scholarship's concern with “power,” “local units,” “social ...
    • An Echo of Chaos A Search for Order in John Webster 

      Vinje, John Wilhelm Flattun (Master thesis, 2008)
    • An ecological niche shift for Neanderthal populations in Western Europe 70,000 years ago 

      Banks, William E.; Moncel, Marie-Helene; Raynal, J.P.; Cobos, MC; Romero-Alvarez, D; woillez, M-N; Faivre, Jean-Philippe; Gravina, Brad; d'Errico, Francesco; Locht, Jean-Luc; Santos, Frédéric (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Middle Paleolithic Neanderthal populations occupied Eurasia for at least 250,000 years prior to the arrival of anatomically modern humans. While a considerable body of archaeological research has focused on Neanderthal ...