Pensum/læringskrav
Norwegian Medieval Churches and Church Art
Morten Stige, Høsten 2011
Before the start of the course the students should have read through the 2 first items on the literature list.
For those who read Norwegian I also recommend as an introduction: Ekroll, Øystein og Stige, Morten:
Kirker i Norge bd 1, Arfo, Oslo 2000: 9-50.
Luttikhuizen, Henry, Dorothy Verkerk: Snyder’s Medieval Art. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River N. J.
2006 (or later eds.)
Aron Anderson: The Art of Scandinavia. Vol 2. Paul Hamlyn. London 1970: 16-239 (223 p.)
Surveys
#Sawyer, Bibi, Peter Sawyer: Medieval Scandinavia. From Conversion to Reformation circa 800–1500.
University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis 1993: 49–79, 100–128 (58 pp.)
The church building
Anker, Leif, Jiri Havran: The Norwegian Stave Churches. Arfo. Oslo 2005: 9–100, 216-223 (98 pp.)
#Lidén, Hans-Emil: ”From Lund or directly from Speyer? Import of Rhenish-Lombardic impulses as
manifested in some 12th century churches in Bergen”. Hafnia. Copenhagen Papers in the History of Art 12
(2003): Romanesque Art in Scandinavia. University of Copenhagen, Department of Art History.
Copenhagen: 19–27 (8 pp.)
#Olsen, Olaf: ”Christianity and churches”. From Viking to Crusader. The Scandinavians and Europe 800–
1200. Else Roesdahl, David M. Wilson (eds). New York 1992: 152–161 (9 pp.)
The church interior: decoration and function
#Liepe, Lena: ”On the liturgical connection between medieval wooden sculpture and murals in Scanian
churches”. Liturgy and the Arts in the Middle Ages. Essays in Honour of C. Clifford Flanigan. Eva Louise
Lillie, Nils Holger Pedersen (eds.). Museum Tusculanum Press. Copenhagen 1996: 221–249 (28 pp.)
#Nilsén, Anna: ”Man and picture: on the function of wall paintings in medieval churches”. History and
Images. Towards a New Iconology. Axel Bolvig, Philip Lindley (eds.). Medieval Texts and Cultures of
Northern Europe. Brepols. Turnhout 2003: 323–340 (17 pp.)
#Nyborg, Ebbe: ”Church treasures and wall decoration”. From Viking to Crusader. The Scandinavians and
Europe 800–1200. Else Roesdahl, David M. Wilson (eds). New York 1992: 212–215 (4 pp.)
#Svanberg, Jan: ”Stone sculpture”. From Viking to Crusader. The Scandinavians and Europe 800–1200.
Else Roesdahl, David M. Wilson (eds). New York 1992: 210–211 (2 pp.)
#Tegnér, Göran: ”Twelfth-century wooden sculpture”. From Viking to Crusader. The Scandinavians and
Europe 800–1200. Else Roesdahl, David M. Wilson (eds). New York 1992: 208–209 (2 pp.)
Studies in iconography
#Stang, Margrethe C.: ”Body and soul: Margaret and Olybrius in Torpo church, Norway”. Ornament and
Order. Essays on Viking and Medieval Art for Signe Horn Fuglesang. Margrethe C. Stang, Kristin B.
Aavitsland (eds.). Tapir. Trondheim 2008: 161–177 (16 pp.)
#Svanberg, Jan: ”Obscene and blasphemous motifs in Swedish medieval art”. Master Golyas and Sweden.
The Transformation of a Clerical Satire. A Collection of Essays. Olle Ferm, Bridget Morris (eds.). Runica et
mediaevalia. Scripta minora 2 [3]. Stockholm 1997: 453–504 (51 pp.)
Altar frontals
von Achen, Henrik: Norwegian Medieval Frontals in Bergen Museum. Bergen 1996. (70 pp. in English incl.
illustr.)
#Hohler, Erla Bergendahl, Nigel Morgan, Unn Plahter, Anne Wichstrøm: Painted Altar Frontals of
Norway 1250–1350 1–3. Archetype Publications. London 2004:
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Morgan, Nigel J: ”Norwegian altar frontals in a European context: Form and function”, vol. 1 pp. 3–
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Morgan, Nigel J.: ”Iconography”, vol. 1 pp. 39–66
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Hohler, Erla Bergendahl: ”The frontals in their contemporary society”, vol. 1 pp. 66–78 (49 pp.)
#Morgan, Nigel: ”The iconography of the sculpted wooden altar frontals and altarpieces in Norway and
Sweden, c. 1250–1375”. Ornament and Order. Essays on Viking and Medieval Art for Signe Horn
Fuglesang. Margrethe C. Stang, Kristin B. Aavitsland (eds.). Tapir. Trondheim 2008: 139–160 (21 pp.)