UiB : Historisk-filosofisk fakultet : Institutter

Professor Ingvild Øye

Professor of Medieval archaeology
Head of Department 2005 - 2007

Work address: Department of Archaeology, University of Bergen, Joachim Frieles gt1,  5020 Bergen
Tel. (47) 55582056/(47) 55588014 Fax 47 55588050 E.mail: Ingvild.oye@ark.uib.no

Academic degrees:
1988: Dr. philos. of Medieval archaeology, University of Bergen (UiB) autumn 1988.
1971: Cand philol, UiB, autumn1971.

Positions:
Commissions and positions after I was educated at the university have all been connected with research, education, cultural heritage and museum work within the fields of medieval archaeology and history.
Since autumn 1994: Professor of medieval archaeology, Department of Archaeology, UiB
Until autumn 1998 also director of Bryggens Museum.
In the years 1988-1998: Director of Bryggens Museum.
Earlier positions: Senior Lecturer and head of section at Bryggens Museum (1984-1988), lecturer same work place (1979-1984). Research fellow at the Medieval Collection, Historical Museum, and University of Bergen (1973-1979). Research fellow, UiB (1973).

Research activities:
Thematically my research has been concentrated on the agrarian society, rural conditions in the Middle Ages, and urbanisation. In several studies I have integrated a gender perspective.

Participation/leadership in larger research projects:
The Bryggen Project – Publication of the major excavations 1955-1978 (1980-84), Norwegian Research Council (NFR)
The West Norwegian Farm (Vestlandsgårdsprosjektet). ”The traditional West Norwegian farm as a biological and cultural system”: leader of the archaeological project (1995-1998), NFR
Norwegian Agricultural History (1998-2002), Norwegian Research Council
Coordinator the ongoing project:” Regions in a long time perspective - People, materiality and landscape. ”(Institute project) (cf http://www.hf.uib.no/arkeologisk/forskning.html).

International cooperation:
Network for researchers within the Hansa-region, organized by Amt für Denkmalspflege i Lübeck: Lübeck Colloqium on Urban Archaeology in the Hanseatic Region
Rural archaeological network: Ruralia Conferences on medieval rural archaeology
The network:Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, an international network of landscape specialists.

Representation the last 5 years:

Norwegian Research Council:
Leader of the Humaniora committee, Division of Science (2004- )
Deputy member of the board, Culture and Society Division (2001-2003)

University of Bergen:
Head of Department of Archaeology (2005- )
Deputy Dean, Faculty of Arts (1999-2001)
Head of the Research Committee, Faculty of Arts (1999-2001)

Other representation:
Member of the Council for the Kaupang-Project (2001-2006)
Member of the steering committee for the international network Ruralia, conferences on medieval rural archaeology (2004 –)
Member of the board for The National Library (2001-2005)
Member of the board for The National centre of Museums, Libraries and Archives 2002–)
Deputy member of the board for The Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) (1995-2003)

Editorial representation:
The Bryggen Papers . Fagbokforlaget (Chief editor), Bergen. The series The Northern World, North Europe and the Baltic 400-1400 AD, Economies and Cultures, BRILL, Academic Publishers. Leiden.
Strilesoga vol. 1-5 (1996-2202) (J.R. Myking, E. Nysæter og I. Øye), Eide forlag, Bergen

Publications the last five years:

2005:

Farming and farming systems in Norse societies of the North Atlantic, chapter 35 inViking and Norse in the North Atlantic. Select Papers from Proceedings of the Fourteenth Viking Congress, Tórshavn, 19-30 July 2001, Annales Societas Scientiarium Færoensis Supplementum XLIV, (eds. A. Mortensen and S. Arge), 359-370, Tórshavn 2005.

Kvinner, kjønn og samfunn fra vikingtid til reformasjonen, i Med kjønnsperspektiv på norsk historie, del 1. Gro Hagemann, Kari Melby, Hilde Sandvik og Ingvild Øye (Red. I. Blom og S. Sogner), 21-101, Cappelen Akademisk forlag, Oslo 2005

Kammer, kjønn og kontekst, i Fra funn til samfunn. Jernalderstudier tilegnet Bergljot Solberg på70-årsdagen. UBAS Nordisk 1, Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter (red. K.A. Bergsvik og A. Engevik, 393-415, Bergen.

Land and peasants – recent medieval studies in Norway, in Land, Lords and Peasants. Peasants’ rights to control land in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period – Norway, Scandinavia and the Alpine region. Report from a seminar in Trondheim, November 2004 (eds. T. Iversen and J. R. Myking). No 52 Trondheim Studies in History, 119-132, NTNU, Trondheim.

Introduction, in ’Utmark’. The Outfield as Industry and Ideology in the Iron Age and the Middle Ages in UBAS – International 1. University of Bergen Archaeological Series ( eds. Ingunn Holm, Sonja Innselset and Ingvild Øye), 9-20, Bergen

2004:

Agricultural conditions and rural societies c. 800- 1350, InNorwegian Agricultural History (ed. R. Almås), 79-140, forthcoming July 2004, Tapir, Trondheim.

The Infrastructure of Bergen in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period to ca. 1700 . Lübecker Kolloqium zur Stadtarchäeologie im Hanseraum IV, Amt für Archäeologische Denkmalpflege der Hansestadt Lübeck, Lübec.

The concept of “utmark”, its meaning and history in common use and archaeological research. The Outfield as Industry and Ideology in the Iron Age and Middle Ages (eds. I. Øye and I. Holm, UBAS, University of Bergen, Archaeological Series)

2003:

Outfields as part of the medieval farm – four archaeological case studies from Western Norway, Scandinavian archaeological practice – in theory (ed. J. Bergstøl), Oslo Archaeological Series vol 1, 400-411, Oslo 2003

Hovedfaget – mellom magistergrad og mastergrad. Riss 1/ 2003, 11-17, Bergen.

2002:

Landbruk under press, 800 – 1350, Jorda blir levevei.Norges landbrukshistorie vol I, part 2, 214-477, Samlaget, Oslo

Ragnhild Simunsdatter and women’s social and economic position in Norse society, Collegium Medivale vol 15, 81-93, Oslo.

Universitetsmuseene – ved en skillevei?, Museumsnytt nr.1, 2002, 14-15

2001:

Austad, I, I. Øye et al. Den tradisjonelle vestlandsgården som kulturbiologisk system. Kulturminner og miljø. Forskning i grenseland mellom natur og kultur (ed. Birgitte Skar), 135- 205, utg. av Norsk institutt for kulturforskning, Oslo. (IØ alone: 140-143, 153-165.)

Herdis Torvaldsdatter, Norsk biografisk leksikon, bd. 4, 241-42, Oslo.

Asbjørn E. Herteig, Norsk biografisk leksikon, bd. 4, 251-52, Oslo  

Editorial work the last five years:

2005:

One thesis in 2005; G. Hansen: The Emergence of a Town, Bergen c. 800- 1170 . in The Bryggen Papers. Fagbokforlaget AS (chief editor), Bergen.

UBAS – International 1. University of Bergen Archaeological Series ( eds. Ingunn Holm, Sonja Innselset and Ingvild Øye. ’Utmark’. The Outfield as Industry and Ideology in the Iron Age and the Middle Ages, Bergen.

2004:

Medieval Fishing Tackle from Bergen and Borgund. B ryggen Papers. Main Series vol 5. Fagbokforlaget as (ed. I. Øye)

The Outfield as Industry and Ideology in the Iron Age and Middle Ages (eds. I. Øye and I. Holm, UBAS, University of Bergen, Archeological Series I

2002:

Vestlandsgården. Fire arkeologiske punktundersøkelser. Havrå – Grinde –Lee – Ormelid. Arkeologiske avhandlinger og rapporter ved Universitetet i Bergen, no. 8, Bergen

2001:

Ships and Commodities. Bryggen Papers Supplementary Series vol 7. Fagbokforlaget as (ed. I. Øye)

Strilesoga bind V , (eds. J.R. Myking, E. Nysæter og I. Øye) Eide forlag, Bergen Eide forlag.

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