Unn Falkeid

Books:

• The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden. Women, Politics and Reform in Renaissance Italy. Co-edited with Anna Wainwright. Leiden: Brill, 2023.
• Den hellige Birgitta. Enken som utfordret Europa (Saint Birgitta. The widow who challenged Europe). Oslo: Kagge forlag 2021.
• Sanctity and Female Authorship: Birgitta of Sweden & Catherine of Siena. Co-edited with Maria H. Oen. Routledge, 2019.
• The Avignon Papacy Contested. An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena. Harvard University Press, 2017.
• The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch. Co-edited with Albert Russell Ascoli. Cambridge University Press, 2015).
• Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry. Co-edited with Aileen A. Feng. Ashgate/Routledge, 2015.
• Aiolos: tidsskrift för litteratur, teori och estetik. No. 50–51 (2015). Co-edited with Håkan Trygger. 
• Dante. A Critical Reappraisal. Oslo Academic Press, 2008.
• Petrarca og det moderne selvet. En lesning av canzone 129 (Petrarch and the moderf self. A reading of canzone 129). Oslo Academic Press, 2006. 

• Falkeid, Unn (2023). "The Most Illustrious and Divine of All the Sibyls." Saint Birgitta in the Prophetic Visions of Tommaso Campanella and Queen Cristina of Sweden. In Falkeid, Unn & Anna, Wainwright (Ed.), The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden. Women, Politics and Reform in Renaissance Italy. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 978-90-04-43178-2. p. 277–308. Full text in Research Archive
• Falkeid, Unn & Wainwright, Anna (2023). Introduction. In Falkeid, Unn & Anna, Wainwright (Ed.), The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden. Women, Politics and Reform in Renaissance Italy. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 978-90-04-43178-2. p. 1–33.
• Falkeid, Unn (2022). “Stupor et mirabilia!" The Ascent of an Early Modern Redeemer. Scienza & Politica. Per una storia delle dottrine. ISSN 1590-4946. 34(66), p. 15–29. doi: 10.6092/issn.1825-9618/15169. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Saint Birgitta of Sweden (1303–1373), one of the most powerful visionary women from the late Middle Ages, was celebrated as a prophet and a sibyl long into seventeenth century. A common suggestion has been that Birgitta’s prophetic status was crafted by her supporters after her death. My claim, however, is that the construction of the prophet was the result of a highly conscious strategy which followed Birgitta from the very beginning of her visionary career, and to which both her supporters and she herself carefully contributed. We meet the traces of such a construction in the earliest hagiographers’ accounts, in the confessors’ ardent supports, and in the many witnesses from the canonization process. Yet, the strongest testimonies of the prophet in spe, is to be found in Birgitta’s own revelations, which is the focus of this article.

• Falkeid, Unn (2021). Etterord, Edvard Hoem. Ute, langt der ute, Dikt 1967-2021. Forlaget Oktober. ISSN 9788249524631. p. 109–113.
• Falkeid, Unn (2021). Magistra apostolorum: The Virgin Mary in Birgitta of Sweden and Vittoria Colonna. In Cox, Virginia & McHugh, Shannon (Ed.), Vittoria Colonna. Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact. Amsterdam University Press. ISSN 9789463723947. p. 75–95.
• Falkeid, Unn (2019). "Constructing Female Authority. Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, and the Two Marys.". In Oen, Maria H. & Falkeid, Unn (Ed.), Sanctity and Female Authorship: Birgitta of Sweden & Catherine of Siena. Routledge. ISSN 9780367368555. p. 54–73. doi: 10.4324/9780429351778-4. Show summary

  Birgitta of Sweden (Birgitta Birgersdotter, 1302/03-1373) and her younger contemporary Catherine of Siena (Caterina Benincasa, 1347-1380) form the most powerful and influential female duo in European history. Both enjoyed saintly reputations in life, while acting as the charismatic leaders of a considerable group of followers consisting of clergy as well as mighty secular men and women. They are also among the very few women of the Trecento to leave a substantial body of written work which was widely disseminated in their original languages and in translations. Copies of Birgitta’s Liber celestis revelacionum (The Heavenly Book of Revelations) and compilations of Catherine's letters (Le lettere), prayers Le orazioni) and her theological work, Il Dialogo della divina Provvidenza (The Dialogue) found their way into monastic, royal, and humanist libraries all over Europe. After their deaths, Birgitta’s and Catherine’s respective groups of supporters sought to have them formally canonized. In both cases, however, their political and theological outspokenness, orally and in text, and their public authority represented obstacles.　 In this comparative study, leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds offer, for the very first time, a comprehensive exploration of the lives and activities of Birgitta and Catherine in tandem. Particular attention is given to their literary works and the complex process of negotiating their sanctity and authorial roles. Above all, what the chapters reveal is the many points of connections between two of the most influential women of the Trecento, and how they were related to one another by their peers and successors.　

• Oen, Maria H. & Falkeid, Unn (2019). Introduction. In Oen, Maria H. & Falkeid, Unn (Ed.), Sanctity and Female Authorship: Birgitta of Sweden & Catherine of Siena. Routledge. ISSN 9780367368555. p. 1–13. Show summary

  Birgitta of Sweden (Birgitta Birgersdotter, 1302/03-1373) and her younger contemporary Catherine of Siena (Caterina Benincasa, 1347-1380) form the most powerful and influential female duo in European history. Both enjoyed saintly reputations in life, while acting as the charismatic leaders of a considerable group of followers consisting of clergy as well as mighty secular men and women. They are also among the very few women of the Trecento to leave a substantial body of written work which was widely disseminated in their original languages and in translations. Copies of Birgitta’s Liber celestis revelacionum (The Heavenly Book of Revelations) and compilations of Catherine's letters (Le lettere), prayers Le orazioni) and her theological work, Il Dialogo della divina Provvidenza (The Dialogue) found their way into monastic, royal, and humanist libraries all over Europe. After their deaths, Birgitta’s and Catherine’s respective groups of supporters sought to have them formally canonized. In both cases, however, their political and theological outspokenness, orally and in text, and their public authority represented obstacles.　 In this comparative study, leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds offer, for the very first time, a comprehensive exploration of the lives and activities of Birgitta and Catherine in tandem. Particular attention is given to their literary works and the complex process of negotiating their sanctity and authorial roles. Above all, what the chapters reveal is the many points of connections between two of the most influential women of the Trecento, and how they were related to one another by their peers and successors.　

• Falkeid, Unn (2019). The Political Discourse of Birgitta of Sweden. In Oen, Maria H. (Eds.), A Companion to Birgitta of Sweden and Her Legacy in the Later Middle Ages. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004338685. p. 80–102. doi: 10.1163/9789004399877_005. Show summary

  St Birgitta of Sweden (d. 1373) is one of the most celebrated female visionaries and authors of the Middle Ages and a central figure in the history of late-medieval religion. An aristocratic widow, Birgitta left her native country in 1349 and settled in Rome, where she established herself as an outspoken critic of the Avignon Papacy and an advocate of spiritual and ecclesiastical reform. Birgitta founded a new monastic order, and her major work, The Heavenly Book of Revelations, circulated widely in a variety of monastic, reformist, and intellectual milieus following her death. This volume offers an introduction to the saint and the reception of her work written by experts from various disciplines. In addition to acquainting the reader with the state of the scholarship, the study also presents fresh interpretations and new perspectives on Birgitta and the sources for her life and writings.

• Falkeid, Unn (2018). "'Una gran cosa.' Moderata Fonte og renessansens protofeminisme". Norsk Filosofisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-1943. 2-3, p. 66–78. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-2901-2018-02-03-03. Full text in Research Archive
• Falkeid, Unn (2018). Voci puerili: children in Dante's Divine Comedy. In Aasgaard, Reidar; Horn, Cornelia B. & Cojocaru, Oana Maria (Ed.), Childhood in History: Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds. Routledge. ISSN 9781472468925. p. 273–289. doi: 10.4324/9781315571133-17.
• Falkeid, Unn (2017). Kampen om fortidens stemmer: Birgitta av Sverige og senmiddelalderens politiske kanon. In Aasgaard, Reidar; Krefting, Ellen Marie & Schaanning, Espen (Ed.), Grep om fortiden: Perspektiver og metoder i idéhistorie. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202565282. p. 101–117.
• Falkeid, Unn (2015). De vita solitaria and De otio religioso: the perspective of the guest. In Ascoli, Albert Russell & Falkeid, Unn (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781107006140. p. 111–119. doi: 10.1017/cco9780511795008.013. Show summary

  Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304–74), best known for his influential collection of Italian lyric poetry dedicated to his beloved Laura, was also a remarkable classical scholar, a deeply religious thinker and a philosopher of secular ethics. In this wide-ranging study, chapters by leading scholars view Petrarch's life through his works, from the epic Africa to the Letter to Posterity, from the Canzoniere to the vernacular epic Triumphi. Petrarch is revealed as the heir to the converging influences of classical cultural and medieval Christianity, but also to his great vernacular precursor, Dante, and his friend, collaborator and sly critic, Boccaccio. Particular attention is given to Petrach's profound influence on the Humanist movement and on the courtly cult of vernacular love poetry, while raising important questions as to the validity of the distinction between medieval and modern and what is lost in attempting to classify this elusive figure.

• Falkeid, Unn & Ascoli, Albert Russell (2015). Introduction. In Ascoli, Albert Russell & Falkeid, Unn (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781107006140. p. 1–9. Show summary

  Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304–74), best known for his influential collection of Italian lyric poetry dedicated to his beloved Laura, was also a remarkable classical scholar, a deeply religious thinker and a philosopher of secular ethics. In this wide-ranging study, chapters by leading scholars view Petrarch's life through his works, from the epic Africa to the Letter to Posterity, from the Canzoniere to the vernacular epic Triumphi. Petrarch is revealed as the heir to the converging influences of classical cultural and medieval Christianity, but also to his great vernacular precursor, Dante, and his friend, collaborator and sly critic, Boccaccio. Particular attention is given to Petrach's profound influence on the Humanist movement and on the courtly cult of vernacular love poetry, while raising important questions as to the validity of the distinction between medieval and modern and what is lost in attempting to classify this elusive figure.

• Falkeid, Unn (2015). "The Sublime Realism of Gaspara Stampa". In Falkeid, Unn & Feng, Aileen A. (Ed.), Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry. Ashgate. ISSN 9781472427069. p. 39–54. Show summary

  Despite the fact that Gaspara Stampa (1523?-1554) has been recognized as one of the greatest and most creative poets and musicians of the Italian Renaissance, scholarship on her work has been surprisingly scarce and uncoordinated. In recent years, critical attention towards her work has increased, but until now there have been no anthologies dedicated solely to Stampa. Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry aims to set a foundation for further Stampa studies by accounting for her contributions to literature, music history, gender studies, the history of ideas, philosophy, and other areas of critical thought. This volume brings together an international group of interdisciplinary scholars who employ varied methodologies to explore multiple aspects of Stampa's work in dialogue with the most recent scholarship in the field. The chapters emphasize the many ways in which Stampa's poetry engages with multiple cultural movements of early modern Italy and Europe, including: Ficinian and Renaissance Neoplatonism, male-authored writing about women, Longinus's theory of the sublime, the formation of writing communities, the rediscovery of Aristotle's writings, and the reimagined relation between human and natural worlds. Taken as a whole, this volume presents a rich introduction to, and interdisciplinary investigation of, Gaspara Stampa's impact on Renaissance culture.

• Falkeid, Unn & Feng, Aileen A. (2015). "Editors' Introduction". In Falkeid, Unn & Feng, Aileen A. (Ed.), Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry. Ashgate. ISSN 9781472427069. p. 1–12. Show summary

  Despite the fact that Gaspara Stampa (1523?-1554) has been recognized as one of the greatest and most creative poets and musicians of the Italian Renaissance, scholarship on her work has been surprisingly scarce and uncoordinated. In recent years, critical attention towards her work has increased, but until now there have been no anthologies dedicated solely to Stampa. Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry aims to set a foundation for further Stampa studies by accounting for her contributions to literature, music history, gender studies, the history of ideas, philosophy, and other areas of critical thought. This volume brings together an international group of interdisciplinary scholars who employ varied methodologies to explore multiple aspects of Stampa's work in dialogue with the most recent scholarship in the field. The chapters emphasize the many ways in which Stampa's poetry engages with multiple cultural movements of early modern Italy and Europe, including: Ficinian and Renaissance Neoplatonism, male-authored writing about women, Longinus's theory of the sublime, the formation of writing communities, the rediscovery of Aristotle's writings, and the reimagined relation between human and natural worlds. Taken as a whole, this volume presents a rich introduction to, and interdisciplinary investigation of, Gaspara Stampa's impact on Renaissance culture.

• Falkeid, Unn (2015). I skyttel mellom liv og skrift. Petrarca og brevene. Aiolos – tidskrift för litteratur, teori och estetik. ISSN 1400-7770. p. 5–13.
• Falkeid, Unn (2014). Visdom til begjær. Marsilio Ficino og renessansens kjærlighetstraktater. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. p. 153–160.
• Falkeid, Unn (2014). "Helgeninnen med diktersjel". Sigrid Undsets CAterina av Siena lest i lys av nyere forskning. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. ISSN 0013-0818. p. 131–145.
• Falkeid, Unn (2014). En stige godt plantet i jorden. Teologikritikk og politisk motstand i den hellige Birgittas Frågornas bok. Norsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift. ISSN 0809-2044. p. 38–54.
• Falkeid, Unn (2013). "Thorn in the Flesh": Pain and Poetry in Petrarch's Secretum. In Cullhed, Anders; Franzén, Carin; Hallengren, Anders & Malm, Mats (Ed.), Pangs of Love and Longing. Configurations of Desire in Premodern Literature. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 1-4438-4763-1. p. 74–89.
• Falkeid, Unn (2013). Forsakelsesns strategier. En lesning av Carin Franzéns studie "Jag gav honom inte min kärlek. Om hövisk kärlek som kvinnelig strategi". Norsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift. ISSN 0809-2044. 16(1), p. 47–53.
• Falkeid, Unn (2012). V. Stanley Benfell. The Biblical Dante. Renaissance Quarterly. ISSN 0034-4338. 65(3), p. 980–982. doi: 10.1086/668376.
• Falkeid, Unn (2012). Petrarch and the Vision of Rome. Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia (ACTA). ISSN 0065-0900. 25(n.s. 11), p. 195–206. doi: 10.5617/acta.5793.
• Falkeid, Unn (2012). Petrarch's Laura and the Critics. MLN: Modern Language Notes. ISSN 0026-7910. 127(1), p. S64–S71.
• Falkeid, Unn (2011). Da libido dominandi a libido servandi. Il Paradiso VI di Dante letto alla luce de la Monarchia. In Vigh, Éva (Eds.), Leggere Dante oggi. Interpretare, commentare, tradurre alle soglie del settecentesimo anniversario. Aracne editrice. ISSN 978-88-548-3962-5. p. 131–151.
• Falkeid, Unn (2011). Zygmunt G. Baranski and Martin McLaughlin, eds., Dante the Lyric and Ethical Poet: Dante lirico e etico. Renaissance Quarterly. ISSN 0034-4338. p. 157–158. doi: 10.1086/660372.
• Falkeid, Unn (2010). Dante og skjøgen i Babylon et politisk oppgjør i det tidligmoderne Europa. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. 22(1), p. 89–102.
• Falkeid, Unn (2009). Giuseppe Mazzotta og den utidsmessige litteraturen, Cosmopoiesis. Renessansens prosjekt. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 978-82-02-30255-9. p. 126 –152.
• Falkeid, Unn (2009). Petrarch, Mont Ventoux and the Modern Self. Forum Italicum. ISSN 0014-5858. 43(1), p. 5–28.
• Falkeid, Unn (2008). Petrarch in the footsteps of Dante. In Falkeid, Unn (Eds.), Dante. A Critical Reappraisal. Unipub forlag. ISSN 978-82-7477-347-9. p. 187–197.
• Falkeid, Unn (2008). "Ove l'aura si sente". Petrarcas elegi over tapt muntlighet. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. p. 115–128.
• Falkeid, Unn (2008). Style, the Muscle of the Soul. Theories on Reading and Writing in Petrarch's Texts. Quaderni d'Italianistica. ISSN 0226-8043. XXIX(1), p. 21–39.

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• Falkeid, Unn & Anna, Wainwright (2023). The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden. Women, Politics and Reform in Renaissance Italy. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-43178-2. 242(242). 362 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Hoem, Edvard & Falkeid, Unn (2021). Edvard Hoem. Ute, langt der ute, Dikt 1967-2021. Forlaget Oktober. ISBN 9788249524631. 114 p.
• Falkeid, Unn (2021). Den hellige Birgitta. Enken som utfordret Europa. Kagge Forlag AS. ISBN 978-82-489-2817-1. 322 p. Show summary

  Martin Luther mente hun var gal. August Strindberg kalte henne en «satans kjerring». Den hellige Birgitta (1303–1373) var en av de tydeligste stemmene i Europa i sin tid og satte både konger og paver på plass. Unn Falkeid skildrer en modig nordisk adelskvinne som valgte å følge et hellig kall og bryte opp fra det livet som var staket ut. Hun føder og oppdrar åtte barn, blir så enke og bestemmer seg for å dra til Roma, kirkens sentrum, for å be paven om å vende hjem fra sitt franske eksil. Stadig mottar hun visjoner som nedtegnes og som til slutt fyller åtte bøker. Birgitta etterlot seg en klosterorden og det hittil største forfatterskapet skrevet av en kvinne. «Den svenske enken» ble hun kalt. Hun ble kanonisert etter sin død, og er i dag Europas skytshelgen. Birgittas dramatiske liv er en enestående fortelling fra europeisk middelalder.

• Oen, Maria H. & Falkeid, Unn (2019). Sanctity and Female Authorship: Birgitta of Sweden & Catherine of Siena. Routledge. ISBN 9780367368555. 228 p. Show summary

  Birgitta of Sweden (Birgitta Birgersdotter, 1302/03-1373) and her younger contemporary Catherine of Siena (Caterina Benincasa, 1347-1380) form the most powerful and influential female duo in European history. Both enjoyed saintly reputations in life, while acting as the charismatic leaders of a considerable group of followers consisting of clergy as well as mighty secular men and women. They are also among the very few women of the Trecento to leave a substantial body of written work which was widely disseminated in their original languages and in translations. Copies of Birgitta’s Liber celestis revelacionum (The Heavenly Book of Revelations) and compilations of Catherine's letters (Le lettere), prayers Le orazioni) and her theological work, Il Dialogo della divina Provvidenza (The Dialogue) found their way into monastic, royal, and humanist libraries all over Europe. After their deaths, Birgitta’s and Catherine’s respective groups of supporters sought to have them formally canonized. In both cases, however, their political and theological outspokenness, orally and in text, and their public authority represented obstacles.　 In this comparative study, leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds offer, for the very first time, a comprehensive exploration of the lives and activities of Birgitta and Catherine in tandem. Particular attention is given to their literary works and the complex process of negotiating their sanctity and authorial roles. Above all, what the chapters reveal is the many points of connections between two of the most influential women of the Trecento, and how they were related to one another by their peers and successors.　

• Falkeid, Unn (2017). The Avignon Papacy Contested. An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena. Harvard University Press (HUP). ISBN 9780674971844. 288 p. Show summary

  The Avignon papacy (1309–1377) represented the zenith of papal power in Europe. The Roman curia’s move to southern France enlarged its bureaucracy, centralized its authority, and initiated closer contact with secular institutions. The pope’s presence also attracted leading minds to Avignon, transforming a modest city into a cosmopolitan center of learning. But a crisis of legitimacy was brewing among leading thinkers of the day. The Avignon Papacy Contested considers the work of six fourteenth-century writers who waged literary war against the Catholic Church’s increasing claims of supremacy over secular rulers—a conflict that engaged contemporary critics from every corner of Europe. Unn Falkeid uncovers the dispute’s origins in Dante’s Paradiso and Monarchia, where she identifies a sophisticated argument for the separation of church and state. In Petrarch’s writings she traces growing concern about papal authority, precipitated by the curia’s exile from Rome. Marsilius of Padua’s theory of citizen agency indicates a resistance to the pope’s encroaching power, which finds richer expression in William of Ockham’s philosophy of individual liberty. Both men were branded as heretics. The mystical writings of Birgitta of Sweden and Catherine of Siena, in Falkeid’s reading, contain cloaked confrontations over papal ethics and church governance even though these women were later canonized. While each of the six writers responded creatively to the implications of the Avignon papacy, they shared a concern for the breakdown of secular order implied by the expansion of papal power and a willingness to speak their minds.

• Ascoli, Albert Russell & Falkeid, Unn (2015). The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107006140. 266 p. Show summary

  Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304–74), best known for his influential collection of Italian lyric poetry dedicated to his beloved Laura, was also a remarkable classical scholar, a deeply religious thinker and a philosopher of secular ethics. In this wide-ranging study, chapters by leading scholars view Petrarch's life through his works, from the epic Africa to the Letter to Posterity, from the Canzoniere to the vernacular epic Triumphi. Petrarch is revealed as the heir to the converging influences of classical cultural and medieval Christianity, but also to his great vernacular precursor, Dante, and his friend, collaborator and sly critic, Boccaccio. Particular attention is given to Petrach's profound influence on the Humanist movement and on the courtly cult of vernacular love poetry, while raising important questions as to the validity of the distinction between medieval and modern and what is lost in attempting to classify this elusive figure.

• Falkeid, Unn & Feng, Aileen A. (2015). Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry. Ashgate. ISBN 9781472427069. 222 p. Show summary

  Despite the fact that Gaspara Stampa (1523?-1554) has been recognized as one of the greatest and most creative poets and musicians of the Italian Renaissance, scholarship on her work has been surprisingly scarce and uncoordinated. In recent years, critical attention towards her work has increased, but until now there have been no anthologies dedicated solely to Stampa. Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry aims to set a foundation for further Stampa studies by accounting for her contributions to literature, music history, gender studies, the history of ideas, philosophy, and other areas of critical thought. This volume brings together an international group of interdisciplinary scholars who employ varied methodologies to explore multiple aspects of Stampa's work in dialogue with the most recent scholarship in the field. The chapters emphasize the many ways in which Stampa's poetry engages with multiple cultural movements of early modern Italy and Europe, including: Ficinian and Renaissance Neoplatonism, male-authored writing about women, Longinus's theory of the sublime, the formation of writing communities, the rediscovery of Aristotle's writings, and the reimagined relation between human and natural worlds. Taken as a whole, this volume presents a rich introduction to, and interdisciplinary investigation of, Gaspara Stampa's impact on Renaissance culture.

• Falkeid, Unn; Jordheim, Helge; Maurseth, Anne Beate & Sandmo, Erling Sverdrup (2011). Seyla Benhabib: Et annet verdensborgerskap. Cappelen Damm AS. ISBN 978-82-02-35091-8. 124 p.
• Falkeid, Unn (2008). Dante. A Critical Reappraisal. Unipub forlag. ISBN 978-82-7477-347-9. 255 p.
• Falkeid, Unn (2007). Petrarca og det moderne selvet. En lesning av canzone 129. Unipub forlag. ISBN 9788274773127. 295 p.

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• Falkeid, Unn (2022). David Marsh. Giannozzo Manetti: The Life of a Florentine Humanist. American Historical Review. ISSN 0002-8762. 127(4), p. 1843–1944. doi: 10.1093/ahr/rhac384.
• Falkeid, Unn (2022). “I will always speak the truth.” Justified anger in the household of Margherita Datini (1360–1423) .
• Falkeid, Unn (2022). Den hellige Birgitta. Enken som utfordret Europa.
• Falkeid, Unn (2022). “Non mi lasciar morire in questa carcere”. Lamentation and call to action in Renaissance civic poetry .
• Falkeid, Unn (2022). “I will always speak the truth.” Justified anger in the household of Margherita Datini (1360–1423) .
• Falkeid, Unn (2022). Faglig samtale på Dansens hus.
• Falkeid, Unn (2022). Den hellige Birgitta. Enken som utfordret Eruopa.
• Falkeid, Unn (2022). Saint Birgitta. The widow who challenged the powers in Europe.
• Falkeid, Unn (2022). Den hellige Birgitta. Enken som utfordret Europa.
• Falkeid, Unn (2021). Den hellige Birgitta. Enken som utfprdret Europa.
• Falkeid, Unn (2021). Den hellige Birgitta. Enken som utfordret Euopa.
• Falkeid, Unn (2021). Klassikeren: Petrarca.
• Falkeid, Unn (2021). Den hellige Birgitta. Enken som utfordret Europa.
• Falkeid, Unn (2021). Den hellige Birgitta. Enken som utfordret Euopa.
• Falkeid, Unn (2021). ’The most illustrious and divine of all the sibyls.’ Saint Birgitta in the prophetic visions of Tommaso Campanella and Queen Christina of Sweden. .
• Falkeid, Unn (2021). Den hellige Birgitta. Enken som utfordret Europa .
• Falkeid, Unn (2021). Og jorden var øde og tom. Om Primo Levis erfaringer fra Auschwitz. .
• Falkeid, Unn (2020). Den nakne sannhet. Ariosto og Den rasende Roland. .
• Falkeid, Unn (2020). Den nakne sannhet. Ariosto og Den rasende Roland. .
• Falkeid, Unn (2020). Birgitta and the Widowed Rome.
• Falkeid, Unn (2019). The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden. Women, Politics and Reform in Renaissance Italy.
• Falkeid, Unn (2019). Gaspara Stampa and the Renaissance Language of Love.
• Falkeid, Unn (2019). The Avignon Papacy Contested. Bokpresentasjon. .
• Falkeid, Unn (2019). Den Hellige Birgittra. Pilegrim og Profet.
• Falkeid, Unn (2019). Den Hellige Birgittra. Pilegrim og Profet.
• Falkeid, Unn (2019). Den hellige Birgittas profetier og intellektuelle arv i Italia.
• Falkeid, Unn (2019). 'A single fold under one shepherd’. Birgitta of Sweden in Tommaso Campanella’s Monarchia del Messia.
• Falkeid, Unn (2019). “’A single fold under one shepherd.’ Birgitta of Sweden in Tommaso Campanella’s Monarchia del Messia.
• Falkeid, Unn (2018). “Magistra apostolorum. The Virgin Mary in Birgitta of Sweden and Vittoria Colonna”.
• Falkeid, Unn (2018). Dante og den nye respekten for barn. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
• Falkeid, Unn (2018). Mary Rescued: Vittoria Colonna and Reformed Petrarchism .
• Falkeid, Unn (2018). Birgitta av Sveriges politiske visjoner og intellektuelle arv i Italia .
• Falkeid, Unn (2017). Voci puerili: children in Dante's Divine Comedy.
• Falkeid, Unn (2017). Fransiskanernes frihetskamp under pavetiden i Avignon.
• Falkeid, Unn (2016). Reconsidering Birgitta of Sweden and Catherine of Siena in the Canon of European Political Thought.
• Falkeid, Unn (2016). Petrarch Studies Today.
• Falkeid, Unn (2015). The Burden of Nothingness. Birgitta of Sweden's Jerusalem Visions.
• Falkeid, Unn (2015). The Widow and the Martyr. Staging the Ecclesiastic Crisis in Trexento Rome.
• Falkeid, Unn (2015). The Perspective of the Guest. Petrarch's De vita solitaria and De otio religioso.
• Falkeid, Unn (2015). Crucial Childhoods. Dante and the Reappraisal of Children in Late Medieval Italy.
• Falkeid, Unn (2015). Body and Politics in Fourteenth-Century Literature.
• Falkeid, Unn (2015). Catherine of Siena and the Mystical Body of the Church.
• Falkeid, Unn (2015). Catherine of Siena and the Mystical Body f the Church.
• Falkeid, Unn (2014). Strewn with Ruins. Petrarch, Cola di Rienzo and the Battle of Rome.
• Falkeid, Unn (2014). An unsuccessful ascent. Birgitta of Sweden's Liber questionum and the critique of Mathias of Linköping and Bonaventure.
• Falkeid, Unn (2014). Caught between Flight and Faith: Piccarda and Dante's Pradiso III.
• Falkeid, Unn (2014). The Perspective of the Guest. Petrarch's De vita solitaria and De otio religioso.
• Falkeid, Unn (2014). Marsilius av Padova og kampen mot pavens maktfullkommenhet.
• Falkeid, Unn (2014). The Sublime Realism of Gaspara Stampa.
• Falkeid, Unn (2013). Dantes Inferno.
• Falkeid, Unn (2013). Dante, Justinian and the question of Europe.
• Falkeid, Unn (2013). Catherine of Siena and the Mystical Body of the Church.
• Falkeid, Unn (2013). Logikk og maktbegjær i Dantes Paradis VI.
• Falkeid, Unn (2013). Gaspara Stampa and the Sublimity of Passions.
• Falkeid, Unn (2012). Strewn with Ruins. Petrarch, Cola di Rienzo and the Battle of Rome.
• Falkeid, Unn (2012). The Thorn in the Flesh. Pain and Poetry in Petrarch’s Secretum.
• Falkeid, Unn (2012). Gaspara Stampa and the Sublimity of Passions.
• Falkeid, Unn (2012). The Biblical Dante. Renaissance Quarterly. ISSN 0034-4338. 65(3), p. 980–U496. doi: 10.1086/668376.
• Falkeid, Unn (2011). A ladder fixed on earth. Revelation and Resistance in Birgitta’s Liber Questionum.
• Falkeid, Unn (2011). Dante the Lyric and Ethical Poet: Dante lirico e etico. Renaissance Quarterly. ISSN 0034-4338. 64(1), p. 157–158. doi: 10.1086/660372.
• Falkeid, Unn (2011). Dante, Avignon, and the Roman Law.
• Falkeid, Unn (2011). Thorn in the Flesh. Pain and Poetry in Petrarch's Secretum.
• Falkeid, Unn (2011). Thorn in the Flesh. Oain and Poetry in Petrarch's Secretum.
• Falkeid, Unn (2011). Thorn in the Flesh. Pain and Poetry in Petrarch's Secretum.
• Falkeid, Unn (2010). Cupidity and the Veil of Light. Dante's Paradiso VI.
• Falkeid, Unn (2010). Cosmopoiesis; renessansens prosjekt. Bokpresentasjon. [Internet]. Salongen. Nettstedet for filosofi og idéhistorie.
• Falkeid, Unn (2010). Logikk og maktbegjær i Dantes Paradiso VI.
• Falkeid, Unn (2010). Cupidity and the Veil of Light. Dante's Paradiso VI.
• Falkeid, Unn (2010). Da "libido dominandi" a "libido servandi".Il Paradiso VI di Dante letto alla luce de la Monarchia.
• Falkeid, Unn (2010). Dante e la libertà universale.
• Falkeid, Unn (2010). Transformations of lust for power in Dante’s Comedy.
• Falkeid, Unn (2010). Dante og skjøgen i Babylon.
• Falkeid, Unn (2009). Rome: Babylon or the New Jerusalem?
• Falkeid, Unn (2009). William of Ockham and Individual Freedom.
• Falkeid, Unn (2009). Petrarca e l'elegia dell'oralità perduta.
• Falkeid, Unn (2009). Petrarch and the Vision of Rome.
• Falkeid, Unn (2009). L’elegia di Petrarca dell’oralità perduta.
• Falkeid, Unn (2009). Petrarch and the Freedom of Thought.
• Falkeid, Unn (2009). William of Ockham and the Individual Freedom.
• Falkeid, Unn (2009). Marsilius of Padua and the Freedom of the Citizens.
• Falkeid, Unn (2009). Dante and Universal Freedom.
• Falkeid, Unn (2009). Ove l'aura si sente. Petrarch's Elegy for Lost Orality.
• Falkeid, Unn (2009). Marsilius of Padua and the Freedom of the Citizens.
• Falkeid, Unn (2009). Petrarch and Intellectual Freedom.
• Falkeid, Unn (2009). Marsilius av Padova og opprøret i Avignon.
• Falkeid, Unn (2008). Anakronismens nødvendighet.
• Falkeid, Unn (2008). Petrarch’s Laura and the critics.
• Falkeid, Unn (2008). Marsilius av Padova og opprøret i Avignon. En politisk kontrovers i tidligmoderne Europa.
• Falkeid, Unn (2008). Modernitetens tilsynekomst.
• Falkeid, Unn (2007). Marsilius of Padua and the way to freedom.
• Falkeid, Unn (2007). Petrarch, St. Augustine and the Ascent of Mont Ventoux.
• Falkeid, Unn (2007). Style, the Muscle of the Soul.
• Falkeid, Unn (2007). Heterodoksi og humanisme under pavtiden i Avignon.
• Falkeid, Unn (2007). Italiensk renessanse.
• Falkeid, Unn (2007). The Way to Freedom. A Political Discussion in Early Modern Europe.
• Falkeid, Unn (2006). In the Footsteps of Dante.
• Falkeid, Unn (2006). Petrarcas nihilisme.
• Falkeid, Unn (2006). Italiensk renessanse.
• Falkeid, Unn (2006). Italiensk renessanse.
• Falkeid, Unn (2003). Allegory and Imitation. Hermeneutics in Conflict in Petrarch's Canzoniere.
• Falkeid, Unn (2000). Etterord, Honning. Gyldendal Norsk Forlag A/S. ISSN 82-05-27565-3. p. 45–48.
• Falkeid, Unn (2000). Honning. Gyldendal Norsk Forlag A/S. ISSN 82-05-27565-3.
• Falkeid, Unn (1999). The mirror of the soul.
• Falkeid, Unn (1998). Petrarch and the modern self.
• Falkeid, Unn (1995). Pirandellos vemodige latter. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
• Falkeid, Unn (1995). Pilegrimer og jorsalfarere i middelalderen. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
• Falkeid, Unn (1995). Berlusconi og telefascismen. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
• Falkeid, Unn (1994). "Og jorden var øde og tom". Primo Levi og Auschwitz. Samtiden. ISSN 0036-3928.
• Falkeid, Unn (1994). Og jorden var øde og tom. (Primo Levi). Samtiden. ISSN 0036-3928. p. 7–14.
• Falkeid, Unn (1994). Jakten på det perfekte språket (Umberto Eco). Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
• Falkeid, Unn (1994). Farvel til naturtisltanden (Hans Peter Duerr). Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
• Falkeid, Unn (1993). Susan Sontag, Vestens Tenkere. 3 bind. Aschehoug & Co. p. 418–431.
• Falkeid, Unn (1991). Elfenbenstårnet vakler. Profil. ISSN 0800-7128. p. 113–117.
• Falkeid, Unn (1991). No business like showbusiness. Samtiden. ISSN 0036-3928. p. 92–96.
• Falkeid, Unn (1991). Oscar Wilde - dandy og sosialist, Sosialismen og menneskets sjel. Solum. ISSN 82-560-0751-6. p. 7–21.
• Falkeid, Unn (1991). Sosialismen og menneskets sjel. Solum. ISSN 82-560-0751-6.
• Falkeid, Unn (1990). Kvinneperspektiv og modernitetskritikk. Samtiden. ISSN 0036-3928. p. 103–104.
• Falkeid, Unn (1989). Bakhtin, latteren og den lystige gjenstridighet. Samtiden. ISSN 0036-3928. p. 47–56.
• Butenschøn, Unn Falkeid (2006). Petrarca og det moderne selvet. En lesning av canzone 129. Unipub forlag. ISSN 0806-3222. Show summary

  Den italienske dikteren Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) omtales gjerne som ”humanismens far”. Med det menes det nye synet på selvet som på den ene siden er knyttet til renessansehumanismens fremhevelse av antikkens kultur som forbilledlig, og på den andre siden ønsket om å konkurrere og overgå de klassiske mestrene. I diktene så vel som i brevene, dialogene og traktatene tematiserer Petrarca selvet og de personlige erfaringenes egenart i den forstand at tekstene fremstår som selvbiografiske. En dominerende tendens innenfor Petrarca-resepsjonen har derfor vært biografisk orientert. Gjennom grundige analyser av Petrarcas tekster – hovedsakelig av canzone 129, men også av en rekke andre dikt fra den italienskspråklige sangboken Canzoniere og av sentrale tekster fra det latinske forfatterskapet – problematiserer og utfordrer Unn Falkeid Butenschøn de biografiske fortolkningsmodellene. Hennes påstand er at Petrarcas tekster i stor grad dreier seg om fortolkningens vilkårlighet og selvets ustadighet, slik at en teksts sanne mening ikke lar seg rekonstruere. Snarere stilles leserne selv til ansvar for den mening som kan oppspores i Petrarcas tekster ved at fortolkningene avslører hver enkelt lesers verdihierarki og erfaringshorisont.

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