These days, if I'm not in somewhere in the outer solar system, I'm in seventeenth-century Indonesia. Later this summer I'm giving a...

In the course of doing research for my new book about medieval imagery in space exploration and the astrophysical sciences - The Cosmic...

I'm delighted to have been invited to deliver a keynote address at the Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North, an...

Diagrams may be knowledge in visual form, but they are also material things, whose designs sometimes made use of the physical properties...

It was a dark and stormy night when the Dutch ship Het Wapen van Amsterdam, known in Iceland as Gullskipið ('the gold ship'), ran aground...

When the manuscript collector Árni Magnússon (1663–1730) returned to Copenhagen with a consignment of precious manuscripts gathered from...

When Katarzyna Anna Kapitan and I set about curating a virtual exhibition that would span two museum collections, our challenge was to...

The word petrichor, describing the familiar and pleasant smell of the first rain on dry earth, was coined by two scientists writing in...

This week, the virtual exhibition Writing Futures, which I curated in partnership with the National Museum of Iceland and the Museum of...

I'm delighted to announce an upcoming seminar that will mark the launch of a new virtual exhibition Reception and Reinvention: Old Norse...