Johan Georges P Bollaert

Senior Lecturer - Lingvistiske og nordiske studier

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Email j.g.p.bollaert@iln.uio.no

Mobile phone +46737252604

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Visiting address Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 Henrik Wergelands hus 0313 OSLO

Postal address Postboks 1102 Blindern 0317 Oslo

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Background

PhD in Old Norse philology, specialized in Runology and medieval epigraphy
Masterclass in the Summer school in Scandinavian Manuscript Studies, Københavns Universitet (2017)
Master in Swedish, Uppsala Universitet (2016)
Bachelor in Language and Linguistics: English-Swedish, Universiteit Gent (2014)

Research

In my PhD project, I made a comparative analysis of runic and roman alphabet epigraphy in late Viking Age and Medieval Norway. The project focused on the visual aspects of these inscriptions, in relation to literacy and orality.

Currently, I am working on a database of roman alphabet inscriptions in Norway, as well as a study of the influence of continental epigraphy on Viking Age runic inscriptions in Scandinavia.

Teaching

NFI1101: Norrøn grammatikk og eldre språkhistorie
NFI1100: Runology - General Introduction
NFI4111/2120: Old Norse Palaeography and Codicology
NFI4122/2102: Runology - Runic Inscriptions of the Middle Ages
NFI4121/2101: Runology – Runic Inscriptions from the Migration Period to the Viking Age

Tags: Old Norse Philology, Epigraphy, Runes, Middle Ages, Literacy, PhD candidate

Andersen, Elisabeth; Bollaert, Johan Georges P; Holmqvist, Karen Langsholt & Kaun, Susanne (2022). Images and Inscriptions: A Study of the Murals in Kviteseid Old Church. Collegium Medievale. ISSN 0801-9282. p. 59–88. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Kviteseid Old Church in Telemark, Norway, is a medieval stone church with murals of a seemingly informal character. These depictions consist of ships, figures, individual letters, and longer inscriptions, apparently randomly placed on the interior chancel walls. By studying the painting techniques, the stratigraphic structure and the motifs of the paintings, the authors explore the intentions behind these motifs. They argue that, although of simple manufacture and unprogrammatic, they were an important part of the late-medieval and post-Reformational church experience. Several of the images and inscriptions may have had a memorial intention. This study provides a new understanding of a type of murals found in several medieval churches in Norway and abroad that has often been (mis)interpreted as graffiti.
Bollaert, Johan Georges P (2021). Dating Medieval Roman Alphabet Inscriptions– An Example from Hallvard’s Cathedral in Oslo. Collegium Medievale. ISSN 0801-9282. 24. Full text in Research Archive

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Bollaert, Johan Georges P (2022). Kors och tvärs: om interpunktion i Uppsalas runstenar. Exemplet U 942.
Bollaert, Johan Georges P (2022). Runic and Roman alphabet tombs in medieval Norway - exceptions in a digraphic society?
Bollaert, Johan Georges P (2021). Epigraphy and place: "Hamar-I".
Bollaert, Johan Georges P (2021). Visuality and literacy in medieval norwegian epigraphy.
Bollaert, Johan (2019). Unusual Interpunction: (a lack of) Literacy?
Bollaert, Johan (2019). Gravstenarnas placering, skriftens läsbarhet och minnet efter de döda - Två gravstenar från Hallvardskatedralen.
Bollaert, Johan (2019). Material directing form? - The design of public inscriptions on stone.
Bollaert, Johan (2019). Visuality and Literacy in Medieval Norwegian Epigraphy.
Bollaert, Johan (2019). literacitet och visualitet i norges medeltida inskrifter.
Bollaert, Johan (2019). Visible inscriptions in urban and rural Norway.
Bollaert, Johan (2018). HER:HVILIR or her:hvilir - Carving Traditions in Medieval Norway.
Bollaert, Johan (2018). Roman Alphabet Epigraphy in Medieval Scandinavia - A Writing Culture?
Kleivane, Elise & Bollaert, Johan (2018). <authority>Bokstavar mellom runer og manuskript</authority>.
Bollaert, Johan (2017). Roman alphabetical inscriptions – A writing culture in Scandinavia?
Bollaert, Johan Georges P; Kleivane, Elise & Blennow, Anna Holst (2022). Visuality and Literacy in the Medieval Epigraphy of Norway. Universitetet i Oslo.

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Published Oct. 2, 2017 4:41 PM - Last modified June 7, 2023 2:43 PM

Projects

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