Sivert Angel (editor) - Were We Ever Protestants?: Essays in Honour of Tarald Rasmussen

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Figure 3.1The Coronation of the Virgin, c. 150025, in Snders Church on the sland of Funen, Denmark. Photo: Arnold Mikkelsen.41

Figure 3.2Interior of Skive Church, Denmark. Photo: Martin Wangsgaard Jrgensen.42

Figure 3.3Christ and God above the altar in Skive Church, Denmark. Photo: Martin Wangsgaard Jrgensen.43

Figure 3.4Local Danish saints: St Kjeld and St Thger. Photo: Martin Wangsgaard Jrgensen.44

Figure 3.5Universal saints: Mauritius and Christopher. Photo: Martin Wangsgaard Jrgensen.45

Figure 3.6St George and Danish St Knud Lavard. Photo: Martin Wangsgaard Jrgensen.46

Figure 3.7The upper part of the church door in Haraldsted Church, Island of Zealand, Denmark. Photo: Kristian Hude.48

Figure 3.8Der groe Rosenkranz, woodcut by Erhard Schn. published under Public Domain Mark 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)50

Figure 3.9The alterpiece in Odense Cathedral on the island of Funen, Denmark. Photo: Niels Elswing.52

Figure 3.10Jens Jepsen Lohmann. Photo: Skive Byarkiv.54

Figure 3.11Queen Dagmar portrayed as a pseudo saint in the church of St Bendt in Ringsted, island of Zealand, Denmark by Joakim Frederik Skovggard (1916). Photo: The Danish National Museum.65

Figure 3.12Hellige Olav (Olav the Holy) in the Norwegian Church in Copenhagen, by Agnes Slott-Mller (1921). Photo: Martin Wangsgaard Jrgensen.67

Figure 8.1Title page from Niels Palladius book Det hellige Ecteskabs Ordens Regle, effter huilcke alle Ectefolk br ath leffue (1557).165

Figure 10.1Jan de Beijer, Het Spui met de Oude Lutherse Kerk gezien vanaf de Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, 1765. Amsterdam Museum, published under Public Domain Mark 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) via Wikimedia Commons.201

Figure 10.2Title page of the inauguration sermon of the Old Lutheran Church Amsterdam, Netherlands.202

Figure 10.3Title page of the Visscherbijbel, Lindenberg edition, 1702. Bijzondere Collecties, Allard Pierson, Amsterdam OTMKF625056_001.210

Figure 10.4Luther portrait in the Visscherbijbel, edition 1648. Bijzondere Collecties, Allard Pierson, Amsterdam OTMKF625056.211

Figure 10.5Portrait of Adolph Visscher in the Visscherbijbel, edition 1702. Bijzondere Collecties, Allard Pierson, Amsterdam OTMKF625056_002.213

Figure 10.6Title page of the Visscherbijbel, edition 1734. Bijzondere Collecties, Allard Pierson, Amsterdam OTM0618779.214

Figure 12.1Medal in commemoration of the bicentenary of the reformation (1717). From Cyprianus, Hilaria evangelica.244

Figure 12.2The Cathedral of Viborg. Drawing by Christen Dalsgaard (1856). Photo: Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark.261

Figure 12.3The base of the seven branched candlestick with inscription from 1730 about its resurrection after the fire of 1726. Photo: Carsten Bach-Nielsen.262

Figure 12.4Tychonius edition and commentary of the Augsburg Confession, (1730). Statsbiblioteket, Aarhus, Denmark.264

Figure 12.5The smallest of the three new bells of the Viborg Cathedral (1730). Photo: Carsten Bach-Nielsen.265

Figure 12.6The interior of the Viborg Cathedral. Photo: E. Rye 1909.267

Figure 12.7The reformation monument of 1736. Photo: Poul Petersen.269

Figure 12.8Detail of the reformation monument. Cathedral Museum, Viborg, Denmark. Photo: Carsten Bach-Nielsen269

Tarald Rasmussen has been a Professor of church history at the University of Oslos Faculty of Theology since 1987 and for many years, he has both a national and international reputation as a leading church historian. His particular field of research is late medieval and early modern church history, and Reformation history in particular. His profile is that of a classical university Professor, making substantial contributions to the three main areas of the universitys activity: research, teaching and dissemination.

Rasmussen was born on 28 October 1949 in Elverum, Norway, where his father was a lecturer at Elverum College of Education. He graduated in theology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo in 1975. As a young scholar he conducted research in Germany as a fellow in Berlin in 1978, and in 1984 as a Humboldt fellow at the Institute of Late Medieval and Reformation Studies in Tbingen, under the direction of the influential Reformation scholar Professor Heiko A. Oberman. As a result of his studies in Germany, Rasmussen became acquainted with many leading historians and church historians. In 1986 he received his doctorate with his dissertation Inimici ecclesiae: das ekklesiologische Feindbild in Luthers Dictata super Psalterium (15131515) im Horizont der theologischen Tradition, published in 1989. It was a dissertation that put him in the international top class of Lutheran research.

As a researcher, Rasmussen has shown a special interest in the religious transformations that occurred in the period from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period. These transformations could be found at various levels, for instance in politics and legislation as well as in cultural life, and they led to the emergence of a confessional Christianity of the sixteenth century that differed profoundly from the Roman Christianity of the late Middle Ages. He helped to further identify the various elements of these transformation processes, frequently making use of a comparative approach that took in Germany and the Nordic countries.

He emphasises the importance of traditions from the late Middle Ages to the Reformation and has conducted research into catholic belief and spirituality in the early modern period in countries like Italy and Spain. Collaborating with researchers from different disciplines, he includes perspectives of religious studies and cultural studies into church history. He has distinguished himself as a very creative researcher.

Tarald Rasmussen has published extensively in refereed journals and books. He has also presented his studies at international conferences and participated in various national and international research networks and projects. A number of his publications are at the forefront of international studies of the early modern period. He was a co-editor of the translation of Luthers work into Norwegian, Martin Luther. Verker i utvalg (selected works in Norwegian translation), published in six volumes 19791983. In 2004 he edited a selection of the translated texts in the volume Luthers reformasjon. Hovedtekster 15171521 (Luthers Reformation. Main texts 15171521). In 2005 he published Francis of Assisi. Selections, partly translated by him from Latin into Norwegian, in the series Verdens hellige skrifter (The Worlds Holy Scriptures). He was additionally the co-author of two volumes of