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International prize awarded annually for outstanding research in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology. Administered by the University of Bergen, Norway. Funded by the Norwegian Government.

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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yesterday, Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper joined ABC National Radio's Late Night Live for an hour-long conversation on the Reformation era and the German Peasants' War of 1524–1525, themes explored in her latest book, The Summer of Fire and Blood. Link in the comments. (Photo: Eivind Senneset.)
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As part of an event series organised by Australian Academy of the Humanities, in partnership with the Holberg Prize, Laureate Lyndal Ropert delivered the Academy Lecture yesterday, at the The University of Melbourne. The lecture was entitled 'Brotherhood: Gender and the German Peasants’ War 1524-26'
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On 23 September, Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper held the lecture ‘"Dr Liar" meets “The Devil Himself‘’: Martin Luther and Thomas Müntzer' at the The University of Queensland, followed by discussions between Professor Roper and Emeritus Professor Peter Harrison. holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper is doing events Australia this month. Today's event at the University of Sydney is about to start. From the left: Norwegian Ambassador Per Albert Ilsaas; Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper; Chair of the Holberg Prize Board Prof. Jørgen Sejersted. Photo: Stephen Blake
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Australian Academy of the Humanities @humanitiesau.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The AAH will partner with @holbergprize.bsky.social to bring Professor Lyndal Roper FAHA, 2026 Holberg Prize Laureate and Emeritus Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford, to Australia for three public lectures this September. humanities.org.au/events/aah-h...
A woman in a blue shirt stands at a lecturn. The graphic includes the text "Award-winning historian Lyndal Roper FAHA to tour Australia".
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In April 2026, Duke University, in collaboration with the Holberg Prize, hosted a conference on 2008 Holberg Laureate Fredric Jameson and critical theory. The conference was a three‑day celebration of Fredric Jameson’s scholarship, exploring the future of critical theory. 1/
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The 2021 Nils Klim Laureate Daria Gritsenko was appointed Professor of Algorithmic Governance and Public Policy at TU München in 2025. In this podcast, she discusses how digital technologies are reshaping government and how algorithmic decision-making affects democratic legitimacy and public trust.
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How algorithms change public decision-making
In this episode of “NewIn,” we meet Daria Gritsenko. The new professor of Algorithmic Governance and Public Policy examines how digital technologies are reshaping government and how algorithmic decisi...
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Thank you to everyone who nominated a candidate! We received a record number of nominations for both the Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize by the 15 June deadline. Missed the deadline? Nominations for the 2028 Holberg Prize and 2028 Nils Klim Prize are now being accepted. shorturl.at/I4Slv
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Record Number of Nominations for the Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Read Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's interview with Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper on the link below. (Paywall.) (Photo: Eivind Senneset.) www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"No lever vi i ei postprint-tid, og eg meiner å sjå ei tilbakevending til ein gammal kultur der det trykte ikkje lenger er autoritativt, men det som går frå munn til munn. I dag synest influensarar i aukande grad å vere dei folk trur på", sier Lyndal Roper. www.dagogtid.no/kultur/ho-se...
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(+) Ho ser historia nedanfrå
Om vi ikkje lærer studentane kritisk tenking og korleis dei skal arbeide med KI, gjer vi oss irrelevante, seier vinnar av Holbergprisen Lyndal Roper.
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Today, the 2026 Nils Klim Prize was conferred upon Associate Professor Majse Lind. Read or listen to her Acceptance Speech here. (Photo: Eivind Senneset.) holbergprize.org/news/majse-l...
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Majse Lind’s Acceptance Speech
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Today, the 2026 Holberg Prize was conferred upon Professor Lyndal Roper. Read or listen to her Acceptance Speech here. (Photo: Eivind Senneset) holbergprize.org/news/lyndal-...
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Lyndal Roper’s Acceptance Speech
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Today, Norway's Minister of Research and Higher Education Sigrun Aasland conferred the Holberg Prize upon Professor Lyndal Roper and the Nils Klim Prize upon Associate Professor Majse Lind. We congratulate the Laureates! (Photo: Eivind Senneset) holbergprize.org/news/holberg...
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The 2026 Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize Award Ceremony will begin at 14:00, CEST. Professor Lyndal Roper will receive the Holberg Prize, and Associate Professor Majse Lind will receive the Nils Klim Prize. Livestream link below. (Photo: Eivind Senneset.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIJk...
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
"Det historikerne ofte er dårligere til, er å forestille seg at mennesker faktisk opplevde at det var deres religiøse overbevisninger som drev dem." Professor Gunnar Winsnes Knutsen skriver om Holbergprisvinner Lyndal Roper. www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/hva-vi...
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(+) Hva vil det si å bo i en verden der Gud og djevelen er virkelige størrelser?
Holbergprisvinner Lyndal Roper gir oss et mindre arrogant historiefag, skriver Gunnar W. Knutsen.
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
1/ "What makes people suddenly attracted to a conservative vision of the family?" Laureate Lyndal Roper delivered her Holberg Lecture today. The lecture can be watched in full on the link below: www.youtube.com/live/PEd-tiQ... (Photo: Silje Katrine Robinson)
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A sound body makes for a sound mind. In preperation for Lyndal Roper's Masterclass, "Bodies, Gender, Psyche, Movement", the Holberg Laureate led the four participating PhD candidates through a physical exercise session. (Photo:Eivind Senneset)
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The Holberg Lecture, by Laureate Lyndal Roper starts now. The topic is ‘‘Who owns Fertility? The Reformation’s Sexual Politics’ Livestream link and more information below. holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
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The 2026 Holberg Lecture: ‘Who Owns Fertility? The Reformation’s Sexual Politics’
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
1/ Welcome to day three of the Holberg Week. The Holberg Masterclass with Lyndal Roper, ‘Bodies, Gender, Psyche, Movement’, will start shortly. How do we include physical experience, real bodies, in our understanding of human life? Where do phenomena like dreams fit in? What does gender mean today?
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Great discussions today at the Nils Klim Symposium. From the left: Rikke Amalie Agergaard Jensen, Annabel Bogaerts, Nils Klim Laureate Majse Lind, Moderator Per-Einar Binder, Elisabeth de Moor. Video is available here: www.youtube.com/live/HtDMjdY... (Photo: Eivind Senneset)
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A conversation at the House of Literature in Bergen, between the two Laureates, Lyndal Roper and Majse Lind, provided a wonderful ending to the second day of the Holberg Week. The event was moderated by Professor Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Academic Director of the Holberg Prize. (Photo: Eivind Senneset)
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The last event of the day is ‘An Evening with the Holberg Prize’, featuring Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper and Nils Klim Laureate Majse Lind in conversation. The event starts shortly. Livestream link below.
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
1/ Assistant Professor Rikke Jensen speaks at the Nils Klim symposium: “I argue that recovery cannot be understood as an individual outcome, but rather as a relational and narrative reorganization of life after disruption.
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
1/ Assistant Professor Elisabeth de Moor speaks at the Nils Klim Symposium: “Narrative identity captures a construct. It captures who we are as people and how we became that person."
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
1/ Assistant Professor Annabel Bogaerts speaks at the Nils Klim Symposium: "These findings are really valuable – but they describe distributions, not persons."
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
1/ Nils Klim Laureate Majse Lind delivers her lecture at the start of the symposium held in her honour. Livestream/video link below. holbergprisen.no/arrangemente...
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The 2026 Nils Klim Seminar, in honour of Laureate Majse Lind, starts now. In addition to the Laureate, the panel will consist of: Annabel Bogaerts (Univ. of Amsterdam) Elisabeth de Moor (Tilburg Univ.) Rikke Amalie Agergaard Jensen, (Univ. of Southern Denmark). holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
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The 2026 Nils Klim Symposium: ‘Storying the Person in a Mental Health Crisis’
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
1/ Professor Barbara D. Savage speaks at the Holberg Symposium: “This opportunity to stand before you comes at a particularly painful time for scholars in the United States, as all fields of study is under siege, as is the very notion that expertise matters, whether in education or in government."
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
1/ Professor John-Paul Ghobrial speaks at the Holberg Symposium and points out a detail in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome: what is almost certainly the grave of writer Pietro della Valle (1586–1652), widely celebrated as “the early archetypal early modern explorer”.
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Professor Annette Kehnel speaks at the Holberg Symposium: “History, I think, is footfalls down the passages we once took, or did not take—journeys through times and spaces that open our minds to diversity, to possibilities not yet, or no longer, realized.”
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
1/2 Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper introduces the Holberg Symposium topic. Livestream/video link below. holbergprize.org/events-and-p... (Photo: Eivind Senneset)
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The Holberg Week's open programme kicks off with the Holberg Symposium, ‘Where is History Moving? New Directions in Writing the Past’, in honour of Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper. The event will start shortly. Livestream link is available below. (Photo: Evind Senneset)
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Professor Per-Einar Binder has just finished interviewing Nils Klim Laurate Majse Lind for the Nils Klim Conversation. The interview will be available on YouTube this autumn. See the full Holberg Week programme here: holbergprize.org/events.../th...
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
While the Holberg Week officially starts this evening, activities are already well under way. Here, Professor Gunnar Winsnes Knutsen has just finished interviewing Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper for the Holberg Conversation. For all this week's events, see: holbergprize.org/events.../th...
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The Holberg Week starts on Monday, 1 June. Join us in celebration of Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper and Nils Klim Laureate Majse Lind, as well as the Holberg School Programme finalists. For in-person attendance, register on the link below. holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
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The 2026 Holberg Week
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
What knowledge lies hidden in books where the words are still guarded by sand? Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper explains. Join us for the Holberg Week celebrations, 1–4 June. holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
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Smart Cookies podcast @smartcookies.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
It was so cool to host Prof. Lyndal Roper, this year's @holbergprize.bsky.social winner on the pod 🎙️, to have a chat about her AMAZING book, Summer of FIRE and BLOOD: The German Peasants' War... Full convo HERE 👇🏻 youtu.be/uoz-72qwCio #medieval #feudal #revolution
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Meet the 2026 Holberg Laureate, Professor Lyndal Roper. Join the celebrations during the 2026 Holberg Week, 1–4 June, in Bergen, or watch the events on YouTube. holbergprize.org/events-and-p... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uip...
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Meet the 2026 Holberg Laureate, Professor Lyndal Roper
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
On 12 May, the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion at the University of Bergen will organise an interdisciplinary seminar devoted to the work of the 2026 Holberg laureate Lyndal Roper. holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
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The Works of Lyndal Roper - An Interdisciplinary Discussion
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Jürgen Habermas received the 2005 Holberg Prize for his contribution to "the understanding of rationality, ethics, legitimation, critical public discussion, modernity, the post-national society and European integration." We are saddened by his recent passing. holbergprize.org/news/in-memo...
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In Memoriam: Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026)
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"Du skal være hovedpersonen i dit eget liv." "Dagens gæster forsker i, hvad vores egen fortælling om vores liv betyder for vores trivsel." Årets Nils Klim-vinner, Majse Lind, er intervjuet i Danmarks Radio, for podcasten Brinkmanns briks. www.dr.dk/lyd/p1/brink...
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
From 10 to 12 April, Duke University, in collaboration with the Holberg Prize, will host a conference on Fredric Jameson and critical theory. The event features Holberg Laureates Achille Mbembe and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak as keynote speakers. holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"Roper mener Lutherforskere i stor grad har vært opptatt av hans teori om menneskers frelse. Men mener at man samtidig har blitt litt blinde for en helt sentral side ved Luthers teologi. Nemlig at Kristus virkelig er til stede i kroppen." Les intervjuet med Holbergprisvinner Lyndal Roper:
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De fleste helgener var tynne. Årets Holbergpris-vinner mener det snudde med Luther
FORSKNING: I århundrer har Martin Luther vært fremstilt med enorme steinskulpturer. Så ble han til en Playmobil-figur. – En fantastisk vending, mener Lyndal Roper, historikeren som i år mottar Holberg...
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
OPEN CALL: The Holberg Prize is offering scholarships for five PhD candidates in the Nordic countries to participate in a Masterclass with Professor Lyndal Roper on 'Bodies, Gender, Psyche, Movement' on 3 June, 2026. The deadline for applications is 17 April, 2026.
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Call for Participation: PhD Masterclass with 2026 Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Lyndal Roper has made history as the first Australian awarded the Holberg Prize — who is she? humanities.org.au/power-of-the...
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
"Hvem er jeg? En viktig komponent er vår livshistorie: Om hvor jeg kom fra, hva jeg har vært gjennom, og hvor jeg er på vei." Professor Per-Einar Binder beskriver Nils Klim-prisvinner Majse Linds forskning i Khrono. www.khrono.no/vi-er-histor...
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Vi er historiene vi forteller om oss selv
Majse Lind mottar årets Nils Klim-pris. Det er en velfortjent anerkjennelse av en forsker som peker mot noe vi trenger å forstå bedre: hva som skjer når livsfortellingen ikke finner sin form, eller br...
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I NRK Studio 2 igår gav UiB-professorene Gunnar Winsnes Knutsen og Per-Einar Binder en introduksjon til årets prisvinnere og deres forskning. Hør dem fortelle om Holbergprisvinner Lyndal Roper og Nils Klim-prisvinner Majse Lind på lenken under (fra 01:54:40). radio.nrk.no/serie/studio...
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"History is fundamentally about the relationship between evidence and argument – what we need are the skills to assess evidence and to be able to test and look at and examine whether it supports the argument or not," says Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/lyndal-...
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Lyndal Roper: ‘Drastic’ cuts to UK humanities risk brain drain
Newly crowned winner of Holberg Prize raises alarm over job losses and shuttering of courses across UK
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"— Jeg tror vi alle innser betydningen av sterke institusjoner i den situasjonen verden befinner seg i nå. De bidrar til intellektuell frihet og gir folk sikkerhet, sier professor Roper." Les Khronos intervju med årets mottager av Holbergprisen, Lyndal Roper, under. www.khrono.no/holbergprisv...
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Holbergpris­vinner: — Det finnes intellektuelt liv også utenfor universitetet
Den australske historikeren Lyndal Roper tildeles Holbergprisen 2026. Hun har skrevet biografier om Martin Luther og forsket på hekser, makt og menneskesinn. Og brukt sykkel som historisk metode.
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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Meet the 2026 Holberg Laureate, Professor Lyndal Roper, University of Oxford. Professor Roper receives the Holberg Prize for her ground-breaking research into early modern European history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXqP...
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Lyndal Roper: The 2026 Holberg Prize Laureate
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