Nils Holger Petersen

Nils Holger Petersen

Associate professor emeritus

Current research

Current projects:

  • Mozart's Music and the Concept of the Sublime
  • 'Liturgical Drama' in the Middle Ages
  • Bible Reception in Music (in connection with the EBR)
  • The reception of medieval saints' cults after the Reformation

Selected publications

  1. Published

    Resonances: Historical essays on Continuity and Change

    Bücker, A. (ed.), Østrem, E. (ed.) & Petersen, Nils Holger (ed.), 2011, Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Academic Publishers. 266 p. (Ritus et Artes: Traditions and Transformations, Vol. 5).

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologypeer-review

  2. Published

    Medieval Resurfacings, Old and New

    Petersen, Nils Holger, 2011, In: Studies in Medievalism. XX, p. 35-42 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Quotation and Framing: Re-contextualization and Intertextuality as Newness in George Crumb's Black Angels

    Petersen, Nils Holger, 2010, In: Contemporary Music Review. 29, 3, p. 309-21 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Medieval Ritual and Early Modern Music: The Devotional Practice of Lauda Singing in Late-Renaissance Italy

    Østrem, E. & Petersen, Nils Holger, 2008, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. 348 p. (Ritus et Artes; No. 1).

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  5. Published

    Commonplaces in Religious Upbringing in Sixteenth-Century Italian Youth Confraternities: Iacopo Ansaldi and the Compagnia dell'Arcangelo Raffaello

    Petersen, Nils Holger, 2011, Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period: Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Revolt. Cowling, D. & Bruun, M. B. (eds.). Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, Vol. I. p. 187-208 22 p. (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, Vol. XXXIX).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  6. Published

    Seduction or Truth in Music? Mozart's Don Giovanni and Søren Kierkegaard's Either/Or

    Petersen, Nils Holger, 2008, In: Kierkegaard Studies: Yearbook 2008. p. 109-128 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

  7. Published

    Poetry, Truthfulness, and the 'Pity of War': The Sacrifice of Isaac, Wilfred Owen, and Benjamin Britten

    Petersen, Nils Holger, 2009, Media Inter Media: Essays in Honor of Claus Clüver. Glaser, S. A. (ed.). Amsterdam: Brill | Rodopi, p. 143-163 20 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  8. Published

    Biblical Reception, Representational Ritual, and the Question of 'Liturgical Drama'

    Petersen, Nils Holger, 2009, Sapientia et Eloquentia: Meaning and Function in Liturgical Poetry, Music, Drama, and Biblical Commentary in the Middle Ages. Iversen, G. & Bell, N. (eds.). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, p. 163-201 39 p. (Disputatio, Vol. 11).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  9. Published

    Representation in European Devotional Rituals: The Question of the Origin of Medieval Drama in Medieval Liturgy

    Petersen, Nils Holger, 2007, The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama. Csapo, E. & Miller, M. C. (eds.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, p. 329-60

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

Selected activities

  1. Introduction to "Clamavit Ihesus magna voce: Lost Voices of the Passion"

    Petersen, Nils Holger (Lecturer)

    17 Jun 2011

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesLecture and oral contribution

  2. Music Drama and the Bible in the Middle Ages and Beyond

    Petersen, Nils Holger (Lecturer)

    21 Feb 2011

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesLecture and oral contribution

  3. Symbolic Identity, Cohesion, and Cultural Memory: Saints' Cults between Regional and Trans-Regional Impulses

    Petersen, Nils Holger (Lecturer)

    15 Nov 2010

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesLecture and oral contribution

  4. Cultural Memory: Medieval Eucharistic Devotion and Thought

    Petersen, Nils Holger (Lecturer)

    28 Jun 2011

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesLecture and oral contribution

  5. Humanities and Modern Society: Mutual Challenges

    Petersen, Nils Holger (Lecturer)

    12 Nov 2010

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesLecture and oral contribution

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