Henning Laugerud
Associate Professor
Research Group Images of Knowledge
Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies
Research group for Antiquity and the Classical Tradition
Title: Associate Professor
Phone: +47 55 58 42 28
E-mail: Henning.Laugerud@lle.uib.no
Visiting address: HF-bygget, Sydnesplassen 7
• Medieval and early modern.
• Theories of interpretation, Hermeneutics, visual-studies and rhetorical perspectivesm, memory-studies (mnemology).
• Art- and cultural-history, history of ideas, religious history. Some particular themes: The power of images and visual culture and the idea of “tradition” and visual culture, history of the gaze/sight and the understanding of the medieval sensorium. Scandinavian Recusant history.
Member of European Science Foundations "Pool of Reviewers".
Ongoing research:
A museological project: Sight, sense and cognition. The ‘hagioscopic' mimesis of the museum
The Optics of Understanding: Sight, Perception and Discourses of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. The topic for this study is what we might call the optics of understanding – with its point of departure in the importance of sight that might be seen as a common feature in the discourses of knowledge and understanding in Early Modern Europe. That is, the importance of sight in early modern theories and understanding of the psychology of knowledge.
Icons in /of Memory, a mnemological study of the significance of memory in the medieval period. Dealing with the topics of theories of memory, the understanding of memory and its relation to knowledge, ars memoria and the visual. A study of European "memory-culture".
Catholicism in Norway during and after the Reformation. The purpose of this book project is to look at the Catholic Church and Catholicism in Norway during and in the first centuries after the Reformation. The objective is to present a different story and a different perspective on both the church’s organised resistance and “popular” opposition, as well as the survival of Catholic beliefs and practices and recusant history after the reformation of 1537.
Founding member of- and editor for the european research-network:
ENID - The European Network on the Instruments of Devotion (www.enid.uib.no).