Unn Falkeid

Professor - History of Ideas
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Email unn.falkeid@ifikk.uio.no
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Visiting address Blindernveien 31 Georg Morgenstiernes hus 0313 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1020 Blindern 0315 Oslo

Academic interests

  • Late medieval and early modern intellectual history (1300–1700) 
  • The nexus between politics, aesthetics, and theology in medieval and early modern Europe
  • Late medieval political thought (Dante Alighieri, Marsilius of Padua, William of Ockham, Francis Petrarch, Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena)
  • Religious reform movements
  • Apocalyptic and utopian visions in late medieval and early modern Europe
  • History of emotion
  • Women's contribution to early modern history of knowledge
  • Renaissance women writers and philosophers
  • Renaissance humanism and book history
  • Respublica literaria (salons, academies, and virtual communities in the Italian Renaissance)

Education

  • 2006: Ph.D. (Dr. art.) in Italian Literature, University of Oslo 
  • 1994: MA (Cand. philol.) in Italian Studies, University of Oslo
  • 1992: BA (Cand. mag.) in History of Ideas, Latin, and Italian Studies, University of Oslo.

Background

  • From 2017: Professor, History of Ideas, University of Oslo
  • 2016–2017: Associate Professor, History of Ideas, University of Oslo
  • 2014–2016: Academy Research Fellow, The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm
  • 2008–2013: Postdoctoral Fellow, Italian Literature, University of Oslo 
  • 2005–2008: Lecturer, Italian and comparative literature, University of Oslo
  • 1998–2004: Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oslo (on leave 2001–2002) 
  • 2001–2002: Chief Editor of modern fictional literature, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag
  • 1995–1998: Editor of general non-fictional literature, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Prizes, grants and fellowships

  • Elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (from 2020)
  • The Alberigo Senior Award 2019 (European Academy of Religion) for my book The The Avignon Papacy Contested. An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena (Harvard University Press, 2017)
  • The Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History 2018 (Society for Italian Historical Studies/American Historical Association) for The Avignon Papacy Contested. An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena (Harvard University Press, 2017)
  • Principal investigator and project manager for the interdisciplinary research project The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden. Women, Politics and Reform in Renaissance Italy. The Research Council of Norway (2018-2021)
  • Academy research scholarship from the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (2014-2016)
  • Premio "Il lauro dantesco", Centro Relazioni Culturali, Comune di Ravenna (2011)
  • Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University (2010-2012)
  • Fulbright visiting scholarship, Yale University (2010-2011)
  • Leiv Eriksson mobility programme grant. The Research Council of Norway (2010-2011)
  • Postdoctoral research scholarship from Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo (2008-2013)
  • Doctoral research scholarship from Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo (1998--2004)

Appointments

Curriculum vitae

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Tags: History of Ideas, Intellectual history, Renaissance studies, Humanism, Early Modern Women, Book History, Gender Studies

Publications

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Falkeid, Unn (2015). "The Sublime Realism of Gaspara Stampa". p. 39–54.
  • Falkeid, Unn & Feng, Aileen A. (2015). "Editors' Introduction". p. 1–12.
  • 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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  • 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.
  • Oen, Maria H. & Falkeid, Unn (2019). Sanctity and Female Authorship: Birgitta of Sweden & Catherine of Siena. Routledge. ISBN 9780367368555. 228 p.
  • Falkeid, Unn (2017). The Avignon Papacy Contested. An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena. Harvard University Press (HUP). ISBN 9780674971844. 288 p.
  • Ascoli, Albert Russell & Falkeid, Unn (2015). The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107006140. 266 p.
  • 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). 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. ISSN 82-05-27565-3. p. 45–48.
  • Falkeid, Unn (2000). Honning. Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. 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.

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