Academic interests
Medieval visual culture
Images and religious practices
Medieval Rome
Iconography
History of Christianity
Architectural history
Cultural heritage
Background
I am an art historian and medievalist graduated from the University of Oslo (2002). I am also a biographer and non-fiction author in the field of cultural history and cultural heritage.
My primary field of research is images and their devotional use in pre- and early modern cultures. I have published books and articles on visual rhetoric and intellectual culture in medieval Italy and Scandinavia, on the conception of death in early Protestant Denmark-Norway, and on the reception of Jerusalem in medieval Scandinavia.