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Margrete Syrstad Andås

Margrete Syrstad Andås

Associate Professor
Department of Art and Media Studies
Faculty of Humanities

margrete.syrstad.andas@ntnu.no
+4773591834 +4790186764 Bygg 7, 7531, Dragvoll, Edvard Bulls veg 1
About Publications Teaching Media

About

The St Clement's project: Cooperation with NIKU, Norwegian Institue of Cultural Heritage: The making of a sacred landscape at Nidarneset c. 970-1200

What appears to be the remains of St Clement’s church, the edifice most closely connected to St Olaf in the sagas, was recently excavation in Trondheim. By its association with royalty and Conversion, this was an important building which was rebuilt in wood several times. I contribute to the publication with two essays. The first concerns the depositional finds for the excavations, and is co-written with Marianne Hem Eriksen, whilst the other discusses the church as liturgical space, and i co-writtened with Åslaug Ommundsen and Alf Tore Hommedal.

"THE URNES PROJECT" (see publication of project, Urnes and its Global Romanesque Connections under editions).

In his "Apologia" of 1125, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux questions the purpose of the fantastic beasts, the monstrous creatures, the scenes of hunt, and all the twisted and hybrid figures so frequently represented in Romanesque sculpture. Bernard had never visited the northers edge of Christianity, but this particular universe of fantastic creatures also reached Urnes, in the Norwegian Sogne Fjord, as early as 1131-1132. The natural sciences have over the last decades developed dendrochronology as methodology, and this allows us to know exactly when the chieftain of Urnes had the wood cut for his new church. In this wave of renewal, where a brand new stave church replaced the old one for no apparent reason but changing fashions, the portal of the old church was kept and inserted in the north wall. This older portal has been dated to 1070, and this is what gave name to the latest of the Viking Age style groups; the Urnes style. Urnes church is now a UNESCO monument.

 

“The Urnes Project” is a research project financed by NTNU, UNESCO and the Norwegian Directorate of Cultural Heritage. The project consists of eleven scholars from Europe and The United States. Its aim is to examine the iconography both of the portal, and the interior capital sculpture. The essays will be published together  under the title «Urnes and its Gobal Romanesque Connections». The projects participants are; Dr. Thomas E. A. Dale (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Dr. Kirk Ambrose (University of Colorado, Boulder), Dr. Elizabeth den Hartog (Leiden University), Dr. Griffin Murray (University College Cork, Irland), Dr. Birgit Maixner (NTNU, Trondheim) Dr. Nathalie le Luel (Université catholique de l'Ouest, Angers), Dr. Øystein Ekroll (Nidaros domkirkes restaureringsarbeider, Trondheim), Ingrid Lunnan Nørseth (NTNU, Trondheim), Leif Anker (The Directorate of Heritage, Oslo), Kjartan Hauglid (The Royal Palace Oslo). Dr. Kristin Bliksrud Aavitsland (Norwegian School of Theology), Linn Borgen (Oslo University).

Dr. Margrete Syrstad Andås (NTNU, Trondheim) is project manager.

Research group IKM, NTNU: REFRAMING THE MARGIN: THE ROLE OF MARGINAL IMAGERY IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SACRED

Sub project: The Marginal in stave church imagery.

From the earliest days of Romanesque until the end of the Gothic we find a large body of motifs that are neither biblical nor narrative. The popularity of fighting beasts, grotesque masks, and expressive faces was long-lived. These images often appear in the margins, and may thus be seen as commenting upon and defining the centre. One may find apt explanation for singular motifs, but mostly, these images are not presenting us with a puzzle, if only the right set of texts are studied. Often, their decorative qualities are far more obvious than any religious (or other) content This form of imagery challenges traditional iconography.

The field of medieval art history has debated the meaning of such images since the mid-nineteenth century. The interest in this art of ‘indeterminability’ has increased since the early 1990s, as they have been debated within the framework of ‘the monstrous’ or ‘the marginal.’ Accordingly, they are often referred to as ‘marginal art.’ The rise of visual studies has offered yet another chance to examine this puzzling and gripping artistic vocabulary. A substantial amount of the preserved material from medieval Norway feature such motifs. I examin the role of ‘marginal imagery’ in the creation of sacred spaces in stone and stave churches. Stave churches take on a particualr role in my sub project, as they feature nothing but marginal imagery, in the dragon portals, the brackt masks, and in their overal aestethic language of visual entanglement.

Reseach project: TRACING THE JERUSALEM CODE. CHRISTIAN CULTURES IN SCANDINAVIA.

http://www.mf.no/en/researchphd/ongoing-research-projects/tracing-jerusalem-code

Subproject and forthcoming article: 

Entering Jerusalem. Candlemas and Churching in the Lives of the Women of the North.

In this project, I study the role of Candlemas and Churching in the lives of the women of the north in medieval times. The revelation of St. Birgitta of Sweden, Book VII, Ch. 2, describes the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also called Candlemas, which commemorates three central religious events of entry comprised in one story: (1) The offering of a firstborn son to the Temple of Jerusalem, (2) Mary’s post-partum re-entry into the Temple of Jerusalem, and (3) and the reception of the child by Simeon; the old man who had received God’s promise that he would behold the Messiah. All these aspects of Luke 2: 22-38 are noted in St Birgitta’s vision, yet her revelation contains additional layers of meaning and information less obvious to the modern reader. St Birigtta goes on to describe a procession of virgins and ladies accompanying the blessed Virgin for her Entry in the Temple. For a woman like St Birgitta, belonging to the higher strata of society, and herself many times a mother, the description also reflects her own Churching, and the Churching of other women of her standing. There might not have been angels present, but all the best women her society would have been chosen to accompany her as she entered her own church, the local temple of Jerusalem and the earthly gate to the heavenly city. Candlemas might only have come around once a year, but Churching would have been amongst the most frequently celebrated of medieval rituals, following the birth of a child, whether this lived or died. And in all these celebrations the earthly and the heavenly Jerusalem were brought into play through the repetition and re-enactment of religious memories, an in the construction of personal ones. On the threshold of the local church, there simply was no forgetting Jerusalem. 

Reserach group NTNY, ORGANISING LANDSCAPE; https://www.ntnu.no/museum/landskap

Sub project: Religious time needs religious place: The making of a sacred landscape at Nidarneset c. 970-1200

What appears to be the remains of St Clement’s church, the edifice most closely connected to St Olaf in the sagas, are currently under excavation in Trondheim. By its association with royalty and sanctity, this location formed a nexus for expansive structural changes taking place throughout the North around the turn of the last millennium. Christianity brought with it fundamental changes to laws, beliefs, and concepts of time. Medieval religious perceptions of time, as communicated daily through liturgy, demanded a sacred landscape. Time needed place. St Olaf and the places sanctified by his body were at the heart of this religious and urban transformation. In this sub-project, I study religion’s role in shaping the urban landscape of Trondheim. This entails mapping the location of churches, exploring their functions in relation to one other and the ruling elite, and studying how these buildings were formed and reshaped according to St Olaf’s cult. Archaeological and liturgical material, as well as other contemporary and later textual accounts, are here examined .

OTHER PROJECTS:

Images of Entry 

(Forthcomin article: "The Portal in literaty sources from the north.")

The project examines visual and literal images of religious entry from the North from the period c.1100-1350. From a theological perspective, soul and space were important to salvation history. The understanding of sacred space changed from the early to the high middle ages, when sacred space was considered to be qualitatively different form the space outside. The project examined literal and visual images of entry, as they appear on church portals and baptismal fonts. A substantial part of the motifs here met with are of the type traditionally labelled” marginal art,” which is a genre of motifs explored within the framework of NTNU project Reframing the Margin.

 

The Trondheim Cathedral. Histories Behind History

This monograph is financed by the Norwegian Non-fiction Writers And Translators Association (NFF). The book project is directed towards a wide audience, and consists of ten essays on medieval objects and elements which may still be seen in the Cathedral today. The texts aim to show how for instance sculpture, inscriptions, or portals, tell stories about a culture and a mind-set very different from our own.

Research interests:

Sacred space and religious symbolism

Liturgical and secular processional practices and the use of space

Liturgical ritual in medieval Scandinavia

Legal ritual in medieval scandinavia

Iconography

Iconology

Notions of purity/impurity in medieval legal and theological texts and in religious practices

Early Gothic architecture

 

Biography: Ph.D. from the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Ritual, University of Copenhagen, spring 2013; BA and M.Phil. from the University of Oslo 200. Lecturer in Art History and Church History at NTNU, the University of Oslo, and the University of Copenhagen 2002-2013. Fellowships and Grants: Authors´ grant from NFFO 2012-2013; Research fellow, the Strathmartine Research Centre, St. Andrews, fall 2006; NORFA Research fellow, Center for Medieval Studies, UiO, Spring 2005; Fulbright Research fellow, Divinity School, Yale University, 2001-2002.

 

On-going book projects (for summaries, se above):

Images of Entry. Cases from the North.

Nidarosdomen. Historier bak historien.

 

Latest talks and conference papers:

«En riktig gammel kirke: Barteløver, kuleøyne og gotiske kapiteler» Margrethe Syrstad Andås, NTNU og Kjartan Hauglid, UiO, Jubileet Sakshaug kirke 835 år. Sakshaug, Trøndelag 27-29.09.2019.

"Objects from Nidaros. Looking at Medieval Art from the Trøndelag Region from the 1198 Mære Beam Head to the Hov Crucifix." Royal Saints Kings and Peoples. St. Olaf in Context. The 2nd Nexus Nidaros Conference. Trondheim 29.11.2018

""Re-reading the 1070 Urnes Portal: Who is the King of Glory?" The  Urnes Project, Urnes 22-25.9.2018.

"Public Penance and Physical Spaces as Hotspots for the Definition of the Self", workshop at NIKU, NFR project "The Creative Self. The Construction of the Self in Social Spaces," Oslo 20-22.06.2018

"Religiøst liv og kirkelandskap i Nidaros før 1200," NIDARK paper, NTNU University Museum, Trondheim  May 29, 2018.

"Making it Known to Man: Church Portals in the Liturgical and Legal Pratices of the North," Mittlealterliche Portale als Orte der Transformation (BMBF), University of Bamberg, Bamberg, January 2018.

"Religious Time needs Religious Place," Challenging 997. Church, Town, Saint. St Clement's Church and the Development of Trondheim 900-1150, NTNU, Trondheim, December, 2019.

"Processions in the Medieval Townscape: The Laypeople as Ritual Agents and Audience." Scecond Fiddels in Medieval Ritual. NTNU, Trondheim, November 2017.

"Screens and Galleries in Norway 1130-1275," IV. Forum Kunst des Mittelalters, Berlin und Brandenburg, September 2017.

"Middelalderens kirkebygg. Aktuelle forskningstema," Middelalderkirkene. En flik av verden i det norske landskapet, Riksantikvaren, Fagernes, September 2017.

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"Revisiting Stve Church Portal Iconography: The Case of Nesland III," The Completion of the Stave Church Programme - what have we learnt?, Riksantikvaren, Oslo 14.-15. juni 2016. 

”Prophetic Materiality; Rauðúlfs þáttr and metals as religious-political symbols,” Matter and Materiality, Conference University of Oslo, December 2015

"Fra vugge til grav. Kirkerommet i middelaldermenneskets liv," Stiklestadseminaret, November 2015

”Prosesjoner i byrommet. Et foredrag om det rituelle livet i middelalderens Nidaros og om gangr som uttrykksform,”Fortidsminneforeningens foredragsserie, April 2015

“Synd og fortapelse i kunst fra middelalderens Trøndelag,” Kunnskapsbyen Trondheim, February 2015

“Dåpen og Kunsten,” NDR og Norsk Pilegreimssenters konferanse om Dåpen, November 2014

”Marias minner, mors minner, mine miner. Halbwachs, Nora og Kvinners kirkegang,”

IKM seminaret, June 2014

 

Latest seminar organized;

“Stavkirkene og forskingen,” funded by Riksantikvaredn, NTNU and Folkemuseet på Sverresborg, September 13-14, 2014.

 

Monographs:

Imagery and Ritual in the Liminal Zone. A Study of Texts and Architectural Sculpture from the Nidaros Province c. 1100-1300, Doctoral dissertation. Det teologiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen 2012.

Editions:

Urnes and its Global Romnesque Connections. Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages, eds. Kirk Ambrose, Margrete Syrstad Andås, and Griffin Murrray (Brepols, Turnhout, 2021). 

Architectural and Ritual Constructions. The Medieval Cathedral of Trondheim in a European Context. Ritus et Artes, Vol. 3 (Turnhout, Brepols 2007), eds.: Margrete Syrstad Andås, Øystein Ekroll, Andreas Haug and Nils Holger Petersen.

Articles:

“Introduction,” in Urnes and its Global Romnesque Connections. Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages, eds. Kirk Ambrose, Margrete Syrstad Andås, and Griffin Murrray (Brepols, Turnhout, 2021), 10–21. 

 

“Who is the King of Glory? The Religious and Political Context of the Urnes Portal and West Gable,” in Urnes and its Global Romnesque Connections. Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages, eds. Kirk Ambrose, Margrete Syrstad Andås, and Griffin Murrray (Brepols, Turnhout, 2021), 304–331. 

 

 

“The Decoration of Buildings in the North in the Late Viking Age: A Tale of Bilingualism, Code-Switching, and Diversity?” inUrnes and its Global Romnesque Connections. Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages, eds. Kirk Ambrose, Margrete Syrstad Andås, and Griffin Murrray (Brepols, Turnhout, 2021), 196–228. 

 

“Appendix: Alphabetical List of Fragments form Eleventh Century Decorated Buildings in the North,” in Urnes and its Global Connections. Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages, eds. Kirk Ambrose, Margrete Syrstad Andås, and Griffin Murrray (Brepols, Turnhout, 2021), 229–273.

 

“The last of the beasts,” in Fabulous animals: - from the iron age to the vikings, ed. ngunn Marit Røstad, Hanne Lovise Aannestad, Katherine Elliott, Anja Mansrud, (Oslo, 2020), 65–72.

 

“Det siste dyret” in Fabelaktige dyr: Fra jernalder og vikingetid, ed. Ingunn Marit Røstad, Hanne Lovise Aannestad, Katherine Elliott, Anja Mansrud, (Oslo, 2020), 65–72.

”Entering  the Temple of Jerusalem. Candlemas and churching in the Lives of the Women of the North. A Study of Textual and Visual Sources.” In Tracing the Jerusalem Code, Vol. I, ed. K. B. Aavitsland (De Gruyter, 2021), 340–374.

“Portals in the liturgical and legal use of the North” In Mittelalterliche Portale als Orte der Transformation, ed. S. Breitling, S. Albrecht, K. Schröck (Bamberg, 2018), 170–177.

”Fra vugge til grav. Kirkebygget i middelaldermenneskets liv.” In Værnes kirke, ed. Morten Stige og Kjell Erik Petterson, forthcoming 2016.

”Prosesjoner i byrommet i middelalderens Norge.” In (GEN)KLANGE, Essays om kunst og kristendom tilegnet Nils Holger Petersen på 70-årsdagen. Publikationer fra Det Teologiske Fakultet 62, Kristoffer Garne and Lars Nørregaard (Eds.)((København: Københavns Universitet 2016), 47-55. http://static-curis.ku.dk/portal/files/160889909/Genklange_Festskrift_til_Nils_Holger_Petersen_e_bog.pdf 

“Hinn helgi æysteinn erkibiskup: Presteskapets egen helgen?” In Kristin Bjørlykke, Øystein Ekroll, Birgitta Syrstad Gran og Marianne Hermann (eds.): Eystein Erlendsson – Erkebiskop, politiker og kirkebygger (Trondheim, Nidaros domkirkes restaureringsarbeiders forlag 2012), 149-167.

“Relikviekapell og kongelig mausoleum?”, in Kristin Bjørlykke, Øystein Ekroll and Birgitta Syrstad Gran (eds.): Nidarosdomen – ny forskning på gammel kirke (Trondheim, Nidaros domkirkes restaureringsarbeiders forlag 2010), 296-318.

"The Octagon Doorway: A Question of Purity and Danger?" In Kristin Bliksrud Aavitsland and Margrethe Stang (Eds.): Ornament and Order. Essays on Viking and Northern Medieval Art for Signe Horn Fuglesang (Trondheim, Tapir 2008), 97-134.

“Introductory Note to Christopher Hohler’s “The Palm Sunday Procession and the West Front of Salisbury Cathedral”, in Margrete Syrstad Andås, Øystein Ekroll, Andreas Haug and Nils Holger Petersen (Eds.):  Architectural and Ritual Constructions. The Medieval Cathedral of Trondheim in a European Context. Ritus et Artes, Vol. 3 (Turnhout, Brepols 2007), 279-284.

“Art and Ritual in the Liminal Zone”, in Margrete Syrstad Andås, Øystein Ekroll, Andreas Haug and Nils Holger Petersen (Eds.):  Architectural and Ritual Constructions. The Medieval Cathedral of Trondheim in a European Context. Ritus et Artes, Vol. 3 (Turnhout, Brepols 2007), 47-126.

”Spor etter religiøs praksis på Tingvoll på 1200-tallet: Om innvielseskors, altre, portaler og alt detaljer kan fortelle ”, in Terje Spurkland og Morten Stige (Eds.): Tingvoll kyrkje. Gåta Gunnar gjorde, (Trondheim, Tapir 2006), 159-176.

“Hvor marginal er marginen. Om blottere i sentrum og konger i periferien”, in Kersti Markus (Ed.): Bilder i Marginen. Nordiska studier i medeltidens konst, (Tallin, Argo 2006), 139-158.

“A Royal Chapel for a Royal Relic?”, Senter for Middelalderstudiers Skrifter, (Trondheim, Tapir 2004), 173-19.

”Merker i stein: Om bygghytten ved Domkirken på erkebiskop Øysteins tid”, Trondhjemske samlinger (Trondheim 2003), 25-41.

”Smekre vannlilejkapiteler og rike chevroner: Spor av Yorkbygghyttens folk i Trondheims- og Bergensområdet 1160-80”, Årbok for Foreningen til norske fortidsminnesmerkers bevaring 2001, (Oslo, 2002), 75-89.

M.Phil. dissertation:

Skrudhuset ved Nidarosdomen. Form og funksjon. University of Oslo 2000, Vol. I-II, Unpublished M. Phil. Dissertation, Vol I: 1-200, Vol II, bilder: 1-50.

Publications

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  • By category
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2021

  • Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad. (2021) Appendix: Alphabetical List of Fragments from Eleventh-Century Decorated Buildings in the North. Urnes Stave Church and its Global Romanesque Connections..
    Academic chapter/article
  • Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad. (2021) The Decoration of Buildings in the North in the Late Viking Age: A Tale of Bilingualism, Code-Switching, and Diversity?. Urnes Stave Church and its Global Romanesque Connections..
    Academic chapter/article
  • Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad. (2021) “Who is this King of Glory?”: The Religious and Political Context of the Urnes Portal and West Gable". Urnes Stave Church and its Global Romanesque Connections..
    Academic chapter/article
  • Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad; Murray, Griffin; Ambrose, Kirk. (2021) Urnes Stave Church and its Global Romanesque Connections. Brepols. 2021. ISBN 9782503594514.
    Scientific anthology
  • Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad; Murray, Griffin; Amrbose, Kirk. (2021) Introduction, in "Urnes Stave Church and its Global Romanesque Connections". Brepols. 2021. ISBN 9782503594514.
    Scientific anthology

2019

  • Haugan, Idun; Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2019) "Urnes," i Aftenposten Historie nr. 6 (2 144 -147). Aftenposten Historie. volum 6.
    publications.INTERVJUSKRIFTL

2018

  • Jondell, Erik; Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2018) Klemeskirkeutstillingen. Klemenskirkeutdtillingen [Kunstnerisk og museal presentasjon] . Riksantikvaren v. Erik Jondell; Trondheim. 2018-06-13 - 2018-06-13.
    Museum exhibition

2016

  • Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2016) Kirkebygget i middelaldermenneskets liv. Værnes kirke - en kulturskatt i stein og tre.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2016) Prosesjoner i byrommet i høymiddelalderens Norge. (Gen)klange.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Prusac Lindhagen, Marina; Stige, Morten; Aavitsland, Kristin Bliksrud; Kollandsrud, Kaja; Andås, Margrete Syrstad; Bandlien, Bjørn; Liepe, Lena. (2016) Hjem til Nasjonalgalleriet. Morgenbladet.
    Chronicle
  • Prusac Lindhagen, Marina; Stige, Morten; Aavitsland, Kristin Bliksrud; Kollandsrud, Kaja; Andås, Margrete Syrstad; Bandlien, Bjørn; Liepe, Lena. (2016) Nasjonalgalleriets gjenfødsel. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
    Chronicle

Journal publications

  • Haugan, Idun; Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2019) "Urnes," i Aftenposten Historie nr. 6 (2 144 -147). Aftenposten Historie. volum 6.
    publications.INTERVJUSKRIFTL
  • Prusac Lindhagen, Marina; Stige, Morten; Aavitsland, Kristin Bliksrud; Kollandsrud, Kaja; Andås, Margrete Syrstad; Bandlien, Bjørn; Liepe, Lena. (2016) Hjem til Nasjonalgalleriet. Morgenbladet.
    Chronicle
  • Prusac Lindhagen, Marina; Stige, Morten; Aavitsland, Kristin Bliksrud; Kollandsrud, Kaja; Andås, Margrete Syrstad; Bandlien, Bjørn; Liepe, Lena. (2016) Nasjonalgalleriets gjenfødsel. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
    Chronicle

Books

  • Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad; Murray, Griffin; Ambrose, Kirk. (2021) Urnes Stave Church and its Global Romanesque Connections. Brepols. 2021. ISBN 9782503594514.
    Scientific anthology
  • Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad; Murray, Griffin; Amrbose, Kirk. (2021) Introduction, in "Urnes Stave Church and its Global Romanesque Connections". Brepols. 2021. ISBN 9782503594514.
    Scientific anthology

Part of book/report

  • Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad. (2021) Appendix: Alphabetical List of Fragments from Eleventh-Century Decorated Buildings in the North. Urnes Stave Church and its Global Romanesque Connections..
    Academic chapter/article
  • Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad. (2021) The Decoration of Buildings in the North in the Late Viking Age: A Tale of Bilingualism, Code-Switching, and Diversity?. Urnes Stave Church and its Global Romanesque Connections..
    Academic chapter/article
  • Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad. (2021) “Who is this King of Glory?”: The Religious and Political Context of the Urnes Portal and West Gable". Urnes Stave Church and its Global Romanesque Connections..
    Academic chapter/article
  • Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2016) Kirkebygget i middelaldermenneskets liv. Værnes kirke - en kulturskatt i stein og tre.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2016) Prosesjoner i byrommet i høymiddelalderens Norge. (Gen)klange.
    Academic chapter/article

Teaching

Courses

  • KUH2000 - Museums and collections: Bachelor's Thesis in Art History
  • KUH2011 - Texts that have Influenced Art History
  • KUH3000 - Sources, Theory and Method in the Art History Subject (culminates in project description)
  • KUH2010 - Texts that have Influenced Art History

Media

2022

  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad. (2022) Dekor av kirkebygg og visuelle språk i nordområdene i sen vikingtid. konferanse . Fortidsminneforeningen; Oslo. 2022-11-17 - 2022-11-17.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad. (2022) «Inngangen til det hellige rommet: Hvordan Urnesportalen kan forstås i et rituelt perspektiv»  . Seminar . Fortidsminneforeningen; Oslo. 2022-06-13 - 2022-06-13.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad. (2022) Klemenskirken. En øvelse i å vite, tolke og å anta. Norsk Arkeologimøte . Norsk Arkeologisk Forbund; Trondheim. 2022-11-03 - 2022-11-04.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad. (2022) Portalers symbolikk og bruk. Konferanse om kirkedører i Erkebispegården . Nidaros domkirkes restaureringsarbeider; Trondheim. 2022-11-10 - 2022-11-12.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad. (2022) "The otherness of the North. Woodcarving through the long 12th Century." contribution at ERC workshop at Nationalmuseet as part of the project "Stone Mirrors.". work . Nationalmuseet i København; København. 2022-10-27 - 2022-10-28.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad. (2022) The religious elites of Nidaros 1150–1250. Materiality and Ritual Constructions. seminar . Biörn Tjellen, Mitt universitet; Trondheim. 2022-12-09 - 2022-12-10.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad; Hauglid, Kjartan. (2022) En riktig gammel kirke: Barteløver, kuleøyne og gotiske kapiteler. Om sakshaug kirkes datering. seminar . Fortidsminneforeningen; Sakshaug. 2022-09-28 - 2022-09-28.
  • Documentary
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2022) "Klemenskirken: En øvelse i å vite, tolke og anta." Adresseavisen. 03.07.2022 https://www.midtnorskdebatt.no/meninger/i/OrMA7A/klemenskirken-en-oevelse-i-aa-vite-tolke-og-anta. Adresseavisen [Avis]. 2022-07-03.

2021

  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Helen Syrstad. (2021) Urnes and its Global Romanesque Connections: Introduksjon til ny forskning på Urnes. Fortidsminneforeningens fagdag . Fortidsminneforeningen; Oslo. 2021-08-26 - 2021-08-26.

2020

  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2020) The Urnes Project. Nexus Nidaros, NTNU . IHN, NTNU; Vitenskapsakademiet, Trondheim. 2020-01-10 - 2020-01-10.

2019

  • Interview
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2019) Er utsmykningene på Urnes stavkirke egentlig hedensk? https://forskning.no/kunsthistorie-ntnu-partner/er-utsmykningene-pa-urnes-stavkirke-egentlig-hedenske/1313378. forskning.no [Internett]. 2019-03-21.
  • Interview
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2019) "Hva betyr dyrene i stavkirkeornamentikken?" https://gemini.no/2019/03/hva-betyr-dyrene-i-stavkirkeornamentikken/. Gemini.no [Fagblad]. 2019-03-18.
  • Popular scientific lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2019) Skaun kirke: Antemensalet fra Skaun og kirkebygget i middelalderen. Foredrag Skaun historielag 9.mai 2019. Fagkveld Skaun historielag . Skaun Historielag; Skaun. 2019-05-09 - 2019-05-09.
  • Lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2019) Skriveworkshop, Nye Oslo bys historie (etter Follobaneprosjektet): "Religiøst liv i middelalderens Oslo.". Bokprosjektet "Nye Oslo bys historie i middelalderen" . NIKU; NIKU, Oslo. 2019-11-04 - 2019-11-05.
  • Interview
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2019) "Slakter forslag til nye spir i Notre-Dame: Passer bedre i Disneyland. https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/wPxrWM/Slakter-forslag-til-nye-spir-i-Notre-Dame--Passer-bedre-i-Disneyland. aftenposten.no [Avis]. 2019-05-13.
  • Interview
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2019) https://geminiresearchnews.com/2019/04/what-do-the-animals-in-stave-church-ornamentation-signify/. https://geminiresearchnews.com [Internett]. 2019-04-19.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad; Hagulid, Kjartan Magnus Prøven. (2019) «En riktig gammel kirke: Barteløver, kuleøyne og gotiske kapiteler». Sakshaug kirke 835 år . Fortidsminneforeningen; Sakshaug, Inderøy. 2019-09-27 - 2019-09-28.

2018

  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2018) Kirkelandskap og religiøst liv i Trondheim før 1200. NIDARK-foredrag. NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet. NIDARK-foredrag . NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet; Trondheim. 2018-05-30 - 2018-05-30.
  • Lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2018) Kunst og arkitektur fra middelalderens Trondheim. "Bilder i Norden." Nordisk ikonografisk symposium. . IKM, NTNU; Trondheim og Stiklestad. 2018-08-30 - 2018-09-02.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2018) Making it known to man. Portals in the Liturgical and Lega Uses of the North. Mittelalterliche Portale als Orte der Transformation . Universität Bamberg und Bundesministerium für Bildung und Fo; Bamberg. 2018-01-11 - 2018-01-14.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2018) "Objects from Nidaros. Looking at Medieval Art from the Trøndelag Region from the 1198 Mære Beam Head to the Hov Crucifix.". Royal Saints Kings and Peoples. St. Olaf in Context. The 2nd Nexus Nidaros Conference . IHS, NTNU; Trondheim. 2018-11-29 - 2018-11-30.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2018) Public penance and physical spaces as hotspots for the definition of the self. The Construction of the Self in Social Spaces . NIKU NFR; Oslo. 2018-06-20 - 2018-06-22.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2018) Religiøst liv og kirkelandskap i Nidaros før 1200. NIDARK foredrag . NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet; Suhmhuset, Trondheim. 2018-05-30 - 2018-05-30.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2018) "Re-reading the 1070 Urnes Portal: Who is the King of Glory?". The Urnes Project . Margrete Syrstad Andås NTNU, UNESCO, Riksantikvaren; Urnes Stavkirke. 2018-09-24 - 2018-09-24.

2017

  • Programme participation
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2017) "Hellig Krig. Del I" NRK P2 Museum. NRK P2 [Radio]. 2017-12-24.
  • Programme participation
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2017) "Hellig Kring. Del II". P2 MUSEUM [Radio]. 2017-12-31.
  • Interview
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2017) Kirker og klosters bruk i norsk middelalder. MUSEUM NRK P2 [Radio]. 2017-04-01.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2017) Making it Known to Man: Church Portals in the Liturgical and Legal Pratices of the North. Mittlealterliche Portale als Orte der Transformation (BMBF), , January 2018 . University of Bamberg, Bamberg; Bamberg. 2017-01-11 - 2017-01-15.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2017) Middelalderens kirkebygg. Aktuelle forskningstema. Middelalderkirkene. En flik av verden i det norske landskapet . Riksantikvaren; Fagernes. 2017-09-07 - 2017-09-08.
  • Programme participation
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2017) "Portaler på liv og død" i NRK P2 "MUSEUM". NRK P2 [Radio]. 2017-02-25.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2017) Portalers bruk og symbolikk i sekulær og monastsik kontekst. Seminar om restaurering av steinportaler . Akasia arkitekter; Stavanger domkirke og Utstein kloster. 2017-02-14 - 2017-02-15.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2017) Processions in the Medieval Townscape: The Laypeople as Ritual Agents and Audience. Scecond Fiddels in Medieval Ritual . NFR, NTNU; Trondheim. 2017-11-22 - 2017-11-24.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2017) Religious Time needs Religious Place. Challenging 997. Church, Town, Saint. St Clement's Church and the Development of Trondheim 900-1150 . NTNU, Nexus Nidaros; Trondheim. 2017-11-30 - 2017-12-01.
  • Academic lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2017) Screens and Galleries in Norway 1130-1275. IV. Forum Kunst des Mittelalters . Humboldt Universität und Freie Universität Berlin; Berlin und Brandenburg. 2017-09-20 - 2017-09-24.

2016

  • Lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2016) Kongeinngangen: Hva vet vi nå?. seminar . Nidaros domkirkes restaureringsarbeider; Trondheim. 2016-12-15 - 2016-12-15.
  • Lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2016) Revisiting stave church portal iconography - The case of Nesland III. TheCompletionof the StaveChurchProgramme– What havewe learnt? . Riksantikvaren; Oslo. 2016-06-14 - 2016-06-15.
  • Programme participation
    NRK, tv; Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2016) ANNO. null [TV]. 2016-08-28.

2015

  • Interview
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2015) Fotografen har tatt bilder av kvinner verden rundt. http://www.klikk.no/kvinneguiden/mote/article1518780.ece [Internett]. 2015-03-24.
  • Popular scientific lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2015) Fra vugge til grav. Kirkerommet i middelaldermenneskets liv. Stiklestadseminaret 2015 . Stiklestad nasjonale kultursenter; Stiklestad. 2015-11-15 - 2015-11-16.
  • Lecture
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2015) “Prophetic materiality: Rauðúlfs þáttr and metals as religious-political symbols”. Matter and Materiality . UiO; Oslo. 2015-12-03 - 2015-12-05.
  • Interview
    Andås, Margrete Syrstad. (2015) "Skjønnhet verden rundt" https://www.klikk.no/kvinneguiden/mote/fotografen-har-tatt-bilder-av-kvinner-verden-rundt-2601757. klikk.no [Internett]. 2015-03-01.
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