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Research Projects

Socio-Economic Spheres and Networks:

 

  • Nørre Vosborg in time and space: An interdisciplinary investigation of the manor house and its surroundings from the Viking Age to the present day
  • The Medieval Town
  • Entrepot: Maritime Network Urbanism in Global Medieval Archaeology
  • Agriculture in the Duchy of Schleswig 1544-1830
  • Working Mediterranean Landscapes
  • The Ancient City as Shared Place: The Temporality of Authority and Authorisation  
  • Cultural Encounters and Identities in Imperial and Late Antique Cities
  • Urban Aesthetics in the Ancient World

Spiritual and Material Experience as Cultural Dynamics:

 

  • Aesthetic philosophy of experience and science
  • The Aesthetics of Religion: An Articulation of the Openness in Religion

Forms, Media and Functions of Culture:

 

  • The Reaper: A Biography
  • The Future of Russian: Language Culture in the Era of New Technology, headed by professor Ingunn Lunde, University of Bergen
  • Co-chair of programme:  The Russian Language and New Technology, Humanities Research Centre, Moscow

 

Materiality, Spatiality and Publicity in the Dynamics of Culture:

 

  • HUMAN (den humane vending - Velux forskningsprogram)
  • MOSUL (samarbejde med professionshøjskolen VIA om udvikling af uddannelse og praksis  for social-rådgivere)
  • Place, Authority and Authorisation: The Emergence and Development of Early European Citizenship – in a Cultural Historical  Perspective.

 

Research Group for European Middle Ages:

  • Danish Ethnicity and Identity in the Viking Age and Middle Ages
  • Learned Law and Secular Legislation : Legal Transplants Between Canon Law and Secular Law
  • Legal Culture and Historical Memory in Medieval and Early Modern Iceland
  • The Tile Stove and the Spread of the Smoke Free Heated Living Rooms Between the Alps and Scandinavia
  •  The Church and Cultural Integration in the Middle Ages, with Special Regard to the Use of Canon Law as an Instrument of Integration
  • The Saturated Sensorium: Principles of Perception and Mediation in the Middle Ages
  • Development and Diffusion of Knowledge and Learning in the Middle Ages: Theories, Institutions and Techniques
  • Laws and Norms of War in the Middle Ages
  • Right, Duty and Responsibility. An Investigation of Theological and Legal Discourses on Family and Family Relations in Denmark from 1500 to 1683
  • Anglo-Danish Contacts in the Eleventh Century
  • Infinity Within: The Multisensory Staging of Sacred Space in the Gothic Cathedral
  • Handicapped, Sick and Old Clergymen in the Late Middle Ages in Germany and Scandinavia
  • Cultural Biographies of Artefacts: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Names in Old Norse Culture
  • Íslendingaþættir as Oral Narratives: The Origin of Medieval Icelandic Literature