Troels Myrup Kristensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 256908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Troels Myrup Kristensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Troels Myrup |
| FAMILY NAME | Kristensen |
| SIGNATURE | KRISTENSEN T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3116-5708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Vernacular classicism and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
This article discusses a crematorium inaugurated in 1923 in the municipal Northern Cemetery (Nordre Kirkegård) of Aarhus as a case of vernacular classicism in interwar Denmark. While earlier works by its architect Sophus Frederik Kühnel (1851–1930) followed National Romantic, Renaissance, and Gothic models, the crematorium stands out because of its crowning feature, a stepped pyramid roof that emulates one of the most characteristic architectural…
The phantom Mausoleum
The Mausoleum of Halikarnassos (modern Bodrum, Turkey) is one of the wonders of the ancient world, although little remains above ground to give visitors a sense of its original grandeur. While previous scholarship has studied the Mausoleum's place within the canon of classical Greek art, this paper identifies specifically local perceptions of the monument through interviews with residents of Bodrum, exploring how different images, values and futu…
Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean
In Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean, Anna Collar and Troels Myrup Kristensen bring together diverse scholarship to explore the socioeconomic dynamics of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage from archaic Greece to Late Antiquity, the Greek mainland to Egypt and the Near East. This broad chronological and geographical canvas demonstrates how our modern concepts of religion and economy were entangled in the ancient world. By taking ma…
Space, Exchange and the Embedded Economies of Greek Sanctuaries
Classical Heritage and European Identities
Classical Heritage and European Identities examines how the heritages of classical antiquity have been used to construct European identities, and especially the concept of citizenship, in Denmark from the eighteenth century to the present day. It implements a critical historiographical perspective in line with recent work on the "reception" of classical antiquity that has stressed the dialectic relationship between past, present and future.Arguin…
Mobile situations
Building on theoretical frameworks and concepts from the so-called ‘New Mobilities Paradigm’, this paper investigates freestanding exedrae as stages of gathering in ancient Greek sanctuaries. In the Epidauros Asklepieion, one of the most important destinations of pilgrimage in the Greek world, 18 such exedrae were constructed from the fourth century BC onwards. Providing seating for small groups and adorned with honorific statuary, the exedrae we…
Excavating Pilgrimage
Excavating Meriamlik
This chapter proposes some ways in which a broader palette of archaeological approaches can shed light on one particular pilgrimage shrine, Meriamlik, located in modern south-central Turkey. Meriamlik was dedicated to the female protomartyr Thekla and developed over the course of the fourth century to become one of the most important pilgrimage shrines in late antique Asia Minor. The role of Meriamlik in the early stories of Thekla was limited, a…
Nonnus and the Art of Late Antiquity
Pilgrimage, devotional practices and the consumption of sacred places in ancient Egypt and contemporary Syria
Pilgrimages are often messy affairs, not only leaving all sorts of material detritus behind, but also in many cases severely damaging or even destroying the sites that are visited as part of journeys to a sacred place. As such, this immensely popular religious tradition constitutes a social practice that is deeply tied to the landscapes and places that are considered to be holy and thus principally worthy of preservation (at least by many definit…
Heritage erasure
Notes1. Figure from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_issues_of_Pompeii_and_Herculaneum (accessed 23 September 2014). See also the work carried out by the Pompeii Sustainable Preservation Project: www.pompeii-sustainable-preservation-project.org and the Herculaneum Conservation Project: www.herculaneum.org.2. See https://www.publicartfund.org/view/exhibitions/6042_danh_vo_we_the_people (accessed 24 September 2014).3. Four of the papers pu…
Using Images in Late Antiquity
Fifteen papers focus on the active and dynamic uses of images during the first millennium AD
Using and Abusing Images in Late Antiquity (And Beyond)
Making and Breaking the Gods
The Material Culture of Roman and Early Christian Pilgrimage
and symbolic qualities through fragmentation and deposition, referring to the fragility and beauty of life, as well as to an aspiration of the a erworld, combined with the personality of the deceased.As a matter of fact, her relatives were the ones who created these layers of meaning by making the object -as well as the actions of breakage and deposition -form part of the funerary rituals.In this way, social practice and the funerary rites constr…
Textiles, Tattoos and the Representation of Pilgrimage in the Roman and Early Christian Periods
and symbolic qualities through fragmentation and deposition, referring to the fragility and beauty of life, as well as to an aspiration of the a erworld, combined with the personality of the deceased.As a matter of fact, her relatives were the ones who created these layers of meaning by making the object -as well as the actions of breakage and deposition -form part of the funerary rituals.In this way, social practice and the funerary rites constr…
Embodied Images
The Christian destruction of pagan images in Late Antiquity frequently has been regarded as a mindless aspect of religious intolerance. A closer study of the phenomenon, as observed through the extant historical and archaeological sources from Egypt, however, suggests a more complex modus operandi in Christian responses to pagan images that is furthermore revelatory of contemporary conceptions of religious imagery. This study argues that Christia…
Archaeological engagements
Udgivelsesdato: 2007
Making and Breaking the Gods
Heritage erasure
Notes1. Figure from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_issues_of_Pompeii_and_Herculaneum (accessed 23 September 2014). See also the work carried out by the Pompeii Sustainable Preservation Project: www.pompeii-sustainable-preservation-project.org and the Herculaneum Conservation Project: www.herculaneum.org.2. See https://www.publicartfund.org/view/exhibitions/6042_danh_vo_we_the_people (accessed 24 September 2014).3. Four of the papers pu…
Embodied Images
The Christian destruction of pagan images in Late Antiquity frequently has been regarded as a mindless aspect of religious intolerance. A closer study of the phenomenon, as observed through the extant historical and archaeological sources from Egypt, however, suggests a more complex modus operandi in Christian responses to pagan images that is furthermore revelatory of contemporary conceptions of religious imagery. This study argues that Christia…
The Material Culture of Roman and Early Christian Pilgrimage
and symbolic qualities through fragmentation and deposition, referring to the fragility and beauty of life, as well as to an aspiration of the a erworld, combined with the personality of the deceased.As a matter of fact, her relatives were the ones who created these layers of meaning by making the object -as well as the actions of breakage and deposition -form part of the funerary rituals.In this way, social practice and the funerary rites constr…
Pilgrimage, devotional practices and the consumption of sacred places in ancient Egypt and contemporary Syria
Pilgrimages are often messy affairs, not only leaving all sorts of material detritus behind, but also in many cases severely damaging or even destroying the sites that are visited as part of journeys to a sacred place. As such, this immensely popular religious tradition constitutes a social practice that is deeply tied to the landscapes and places that are considered to be holy and thus principally worthy of preservation (at least by many definit…
Textiles, Tattoos and the Representation of Pilgrimage in the Roman and Early Christian Periods
and symbolic qualities through fragmentation and deposition, referring to the fragility and beauty of life, as well as to an aspiration of the a erworld, combined with the personality of the deceased.As a matter of fact, her relatives were the ones who created these layers of meaning by making the object -as well as the actions of breakage and deposition -form part of the funerary rituals.In this way, social practice and the funerary rites constr…
Archaeological engagements
Udgivelsesdato: 2007
Archaeological engagements
Udgivelsesdato: 2007
Embodied Images
The Christian destruction of pagan images in Late Antiquity frequently has been regarded as a mindless aspect of religious intolerance. A closer study of the phenomenon, as observed through the extant historical and archaeological sources from Egypt, however, suggests a more complex modus operandi in Christian responses to pagan images that is furthermore revelatory of contemporary conceptions of religious imagery. This study argues that Christia…
The Material Culture of Roman and Early Christian Pilgrimage
and symbolic qualities through fragmentation and deposition, referring to the fragility and beauty of life, as well as to an aspiration of the a erworld, combined with the personality of the deceased.As a matter of fact, her relatives were the ones who created these layers of meaning by making the object -as well as the actions of breakage and deposition -form part of the funerary rituals.In this way, social practice and the funerary rites constr…
Textiles, Tattoos and the Representation of Pilgrimage in the Roman and Early Christian Periods
and symbolic qualities through fragmentation and deposition, referring to the fragility and beauty of life, as well as to an aspiration of the a erworld, combined with the personality of the deceased.As a matter of fact, her relatives were the ones who created these layers of meaning by making the object -as well as the actions of breakage and deposition -form part of the funerary rituals.In this way, social practice and the funerary rites constr…
Making and Breaking the Gods
Using Images in Late Antiquity
Fifteen papers focus on the active and dynamic uses of images during the first millennium AD
Using and Abusing Images in Late Antiquity (And Beyond)
Pilgrimage, devotional practices and the consumption of sacred places in ancient Egypt and contemporary Syria
Pilgrimages are often messy affairs, not only leaving all sorts of material detritus behind, but also in many cases severely damaging or even destroying the sites that are visited as part of journeys to a sacred place. As such, this immensely popular religious tradition constitutes a social practice that is deeply tied to the landscapes and places that are considered to be holy and thus principally worthy of preservation (at least by many definit…
Heritage erasure
Notes1. Figure from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_issues_of_Pompeii_and_Herculaneum (accessed 23 September 2014). See also the work carried out by the Pompeii Sustainable Preservation Project: www.pompeii-sustainable-preservation-project.org and the Herculaneum Conservation Project: www.herculaneum.org.2. See https://www.publicartfund.org/view/exhibitions/6042_danh_vo_we_the_people (accessed 24 September 2014).3. Four of the papers pu…
Nonnus and the Art of Late Antiquity
Excavating Pilgrimage
Excavating Meriamlik
This chapter proposes some ways in which a broader palette of archaeological approaches can shed light on one particular pilgrimage shrine, Meriamlik, located in modern south-central Turkey. Meriamlik was dedicated to the female protomartyr Thekla and developed over the course of the fourth century to become one of the most important pilgrimage shrines in late antique Asia Minor. The role of Meriamlik in the early stories of Thekla was limited, a…
Mobile situations
Building on theoretical frameworks and concepts from the so-called ‘New Mobilities Paradigm’, this paper investigates freestanding exedrae as stages of gathering in ancient Greek sanctuaries. In the Epidauros Asklepieion, one of the most important destinations of pilgrimage in the Greek world, 18 such exedrae were constructed from the fourth century BC onwards. Providing seating for small groups and adorned with honorific statuary, the exedrae we…
Classical Heritage and European Identities
Classical Heritage and European Identities examines how the heritages of classical antiquity have been used to construct European identities, and especially the concept of citizenship, in Denmark from the eighteenth century to the present day. It implements a critical historiographical perspective in line with recent work on the "reception" of classical antiquity that has stressed the dialectic relationship between past, present and future.Arguin…
Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean
In Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean, Anna Collar and Troels Myrup Kristensen bring together diverse scholarship to explore the socioeconomic dynamics of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage from archaic Greece to Late Antiquity, the Greek mainland to Egypt and the Near East. This broad chronological and geographical canvas demonstrates how our modern concepts of religion and economy were entangled in the ancient world. By taking ma…
Space, Exchange and the Embedded Economies of Greek Sanctuaries
The phantom Mausoleum
The Mausoleum of Halikarnassos (modern Bodrum, Turkey) is one of the wonders of the ancient world, although little remains above ground to give visitors a sense of its original grandeur. While previous scholarship has studied the Mausoleum's place within the canon of classical Greek art, this paper identifies specifically local perceptions of the monument through interviews with residents of Bodrum, exploring how different images, values and futu…
Vernacular classicism and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
This article discusses a crematorium inaugurated in 1923 in the municipal Northern Cemetery (Nordre Kirkegård) of Aarhus as a case of vernacular classicism in interwar Denmark. While earlier works by its architect Sophus Frederik Kühnel (1851–1930) followed National Romantic, Renaissance, and Gothic models, the crematorium stands out because of its crowning feature, a stepped pyramid roof that emulates one of the most characteristic architectural…
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