Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age

Julie Lund is Professor at the University of Oslo. Her research focuses on ontologies, the use of the past in the past, personhood and objecthood, including studies of animated objects, rituals, paganism and Christianity, and the use of the landscape in Viking Age and Early Medieval Scandinavia.Sarah Semple is Professor in Archaeology at Durham University (UK). Her research and publications focus largely on the landscapes and material culture of early medieval Britain and Northern Europe. She is the author of Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England (2013) and a co-atuhor of Negotiating the North. Meeting Places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea Zone (2020).

• VOLUME 2: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF OBJECTS IN THE MEDIEVAL AGEEdited by Julie Lund, University of Oslo, Norway, and Sarah Semple, University of Durham, UK1. Objecthood, Robin Fleming and Katherine L. French2. Technology, Steve Ashby3. Economic Objects, Dries Tys and Pieterjan Deckers4. Everyday Objects: Making and Shaping Medieval Worlds, Toby F. Martin5. Art, Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen6. Architecture, Sam Turner7. Bodily Objects, Bonnie Effros8. Object Worlds, Ben Jervis and Sarah Semple

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