Henning Laugerud (b. 1961), dr.art. University Lecturer. Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo. Member of and Editor for The European Network on the Instruments of Devotion (ENID). See: http://www.enid.uib.no.
Research areas:
Medieval and early modern.
Theories of interpretation. hermeneutics, visual-studies and rhetorical perspectives.
Art- and cultural-history, history of ideas, Church-history. To be more specific: The power of images and visual culture. The idea of "tradition" and visual culture. Images and the Catholic (Christian) tradition (for instance: The importance if images in the survival of catholic traditions and ideas in protestant Europe - mainly Scandinavia). Recusant history. Currrently working on a project about witch-craft in Norway.
Publications:
Some recent publications of particular relevance:
Instruments of Devotion. The Practices and Objects of Religious Piety from the Late Middle Ages to the 20th Century. Aarhus 2007. (Together with Laura Katrine Skinnebach).
Tegn, symbol og tolkning. Om forståelse og fortolkning av middelalderens bilder [Sign, Symbol and Interpretation. On the understanding and interpretation of Medieval Images]. Copenhagen 2003. (Together with Gunnar Danbolt and Lena Liepe).
"Some remarks on the Sacredness or the Sanctity of Images according to the Council of Trent and St. Thomas Aquinas", in: Bugge Amundsen and Laugerud (ed. ): Categories of Sacredness in Europe, 1500-1800. Oslo 2003.
Norsk fritenkerhistorie 1500-1800 [The History of Norwegian Free-thinking 1500-1800]. Oslo 2001. (Together with Arne Bugge Amundsen.)
"'Jesu fødsel' på prekestolen fra Onsøy gamle kirke. Ikonologisk-teologisk "dissonans" i Østfold. ["'The Nativity' on the pulpit from the old church in Onsøy. Iconological-theological dissonance in Østfold.], in: Sanders (ed.): Mellem Gud og Djevelen. Religiøse og magiske verdensbilleder I Norden 1500-1800 [Between God and the Devil. Religious and Magical Wold-views in the Nordic Countries 1500-1800.]. Copenhagen 2001.
