Body-Politics: Personhood, Sexuality, and Death in the Iron and Viking Ages

Project Information

BODY-POLITICS

Grant agreement ID: 949886

DOI

10.3030/949886

EC signature date 24 January 2021

Start date 1 February 2021

End date 31 July 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 492,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 492,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Unbounded: The multiplicity of bodies and beings in Viking worlds

Author(s): Marshall, Brad Thompson, Emma Louise Wilson, Alexander Eriksen, Marianne Hem
Published in: Open Arts Journal, Issue 2025, 2025, ISSN 2050-3679
Publisher: Open University

Reflections on Posthuman Ethics. Grievability and the More-than-human Worlds of Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia

Author(s): Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Kay, Kevin
Published in: Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Issue 32 (2), 2022, ISSN 0959-7743
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0959774321000561

Body-worldings of later Scandinavian prehistory: making oddkin with two body-objects

Author(s): Eriksen, Marianne Hem
Published in: Current Swedish Archaeology, Issue 30 (2022), 2022, Page(s) 65-94, ISSN 1102-7355
Publisher: Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundet, Goteborgs universitet
DOI: 10.37718/csa.2022.09

Found in translation: towards a richer archaeological language

Author(s): Eriksen, Marianne Hem Mol, Eva Pétursdóttir, Þóra
Published in: Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2025, ISSN 0959-7743
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Viking body-making: new evidence for intra-action with iconic Viking anthropomorphic ‘art’

Author(s): Marianne Hem Eriksen, Brad Marshall, Elisabeth Aslesen, Christina Tsoraki
Published in: Antiquity, 2025, Page(s) 1-19, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2025.10230

Womb Politics: The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absence

Author(s): Marianne Hem Eriksen, Katherine Marie Olley, Brad Marshall, Emma Tollefsen
Published in: Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Issue 2025, 2025, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 0959-7743
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0959774325000125

Non-peer reviewed articles (5)

Viking pregnancy was deeply political – new study

Author(s): Eriksen, Marianne Hem
Published in: The Conversation, Issue 2025, 2025, ISSN 2774-681X
Publisher: The Conversation UK

Viking children practiced with swords and quickly grew up to become adults

Author(s): Eriksen, Marianne Hem
Published in: ScienceNorway (forskning.no), 2020, ISSN 1891-635X
Publisher: forskning.no

Hva tenkte vikingene egentlig om gravide kvinner?

Author(s): Begstrøm, Ida Irene Eriksen, Marianne Hem
Published in: forskning.no, Issue 2025, 2025, ISSN 1891-6341
Publisher: forskning.no

Is Norse god Odin older than previously thought? An expert analyses new evidence

Author(s): Eriksen, Marianne Hem
Published in: The Conversation, 2023, ISSN 2774-681X
Publisher: The Conversation UK

La maternité à l’époque viking, entre genres, corps et politique sexuelle – nouvelle étude archéologique

Author(s): Eriksen, Marianne Hem
Published in: The Conversation France, 2025, ISSN 2431-2134
Publisher: The Conversation France

Other (9)

Stepping Outside the Matrix: (Re)Examining our relationship with horses

Author(s): Larssen, Renate
Published in: River Tiger Podcast, 2023
Publisher: River Tiger Podcast

Viking sexuality

Author(s): Eriksen, Marianne Hem Lister, Kate (host)
Published in: Betwixt The Sheets Podcast, 2024
Publisher: History Hit

Hur gör vikingadjur (How do Viking animals do?)

Author(s): Larssen, Renate
Published in: Axess TV, 2023
Publisher: Axess TV

BBC Radio 3: Life, Art and Drama in the Kitchen

Author(s): Eriksen, Marianne Hem
Published in: BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, 2023
Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation

BBC World Service 'Vikings and their quest for silver'

Author(s): Eriksen, Marianne Hem
Published in: BBC World Service: The Forum, 2022
Publisher: BBC

BBC Radio 3: Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2023

Author(s): Eriksen, Marianne Hem
Published in: BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, 2023
Publisher: BBC

BBC 4 Free Thinking: Beer, crisps and the British pub

Author(s): Marianne Hem Eriksen
Published in: BBC Radio 4, 2024
Publisher: British Broadcasting Cooperation

Weird Viking Bodies

Author(s): Eriksen, Marianne Hem
Published in: BBC Radio 3 The Essay, 2024
Publisher: BBC

BBC 3 Free Thinking Approaches to Death

Author(s): Eriksen, Marianne Hem
Published in: BBC 3 Free Thinking, 2024
Publisher: BBC

Book chapters (5)

Of bodies and buildings: Rituals in the halls of the Vikings

Author(s): Eriksen, Marianne Hem
Published in: The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World, 2023
Publisher: Oxbow

Bodies of intoxication. Psychoactives in Viking ritual practice

Author(s): Eriksen, Marianne Hem Costello, Brian
Published in: Ritual Performance in the Viking Age (eds. Nygaard, Croix and Sindbæk)., 2025
Publisher: Aarhus University Press

‘Body, Doorway that You Are’. Gendering in Fourth- to Sixth-Century <scp>ad</scp> Voss and Hardanger

Author(s): Elisabeth Aslesen
Published in: Gendering the Nordic Past, 2025, Page(s) 67-76, ISBN 978-2-503-60888-4
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
DOI: 10.1484/m.wop-eb.5.144355

Mapping collaborations: working in the contact zone of posthumanism and gender archaeology

Author(s): Kay, Kevin Eriksen, Marianne Hem
Published in: Gender Trouble and Current Archaeological Debates, Issue 2024, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-68156-1
Publisher: Springer

Households. Houses as technology in the Viking Age and beyond

Author(s): Eriksen, Marianne Hem
Published in: Bloomsbury Cultural History of Technology Volume 2: The Medieval Period (600-1450), 2026
Publisher: Bloomsbury