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Saints and sainthood around the Baltic Sea :

1580443230

1580443249

9781580443234

9781580443241

Saints and sainthood around the Baltic Sea :

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identity, literacy, and communication in the Middle Ages /

edited by Carsten Selch Jensen, Tracey R. Sands, Nils Holger Petersen, Kurt Villads Jensen, Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen.

Kalamazoo :

Medieval Institute Publications,

[2018]

©2018

1802

xii, 324 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm.

Studies in medieval and early modern culture ;

LIV

Papers presented at an interdisciplinary conference held in Helsinki in October, 2011, at the Finnish Literature Society.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-310) and index.

Saints and sainthood around the Baltic Sea : an introduction / Carsten S. Jensen, Tracey R. Sands, Nils Holger Petersen, Kurt V. Jensen, Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen -- The elusive reality of saints : saints, churches, and cults / Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen -- Medieval cults and modern inventions : Dorothy of Montau, the Teutonic Order, and "Katholiken fūr Hitler" / Cordelia Heß -- Finnish saints' traditions and folklore : interpreting St. Anne, St. Katherine of Alexandria, and St. Birgitta of Sweden / Irma-Riitta Järvinen -- Varangian saints and Christlike Varangians in Early Rus' Christianity / John H. Lind -- The cult and visual representation of Scandinavian saints in medieval Livonia / Anu Mänd -- History made sacred : martyrdom and the making of a sanctified beginning in early-thirteenth-century Livonia / Carsten Selch Jensen -- St. Canute Lavard around the Baltic Sea / Nils Holger Petersen -- Saints, guilds, and seals : from exclusivity to competition / Lars Bisgaard -- Saints and political identities in late medieval Lund and Uppsala / Tracey R. Sands -- Saints at war in the Baltic region / Kurt Villads Jensen -- Saints around the Baltic : some remarks, conclusions, and further questions / Felicitas Schmieder.

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"This volume addresses the history of saints and sainthood in the Middle Ages in the Baltic Region, with a special focus on the cult of saints in Russia, Prussia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, and Latvia (more commonly referred to in the Middle Ages as Livonia)."--

Christian hagiography-- History-- To 1500, Congresses.

Christian saints-- Cult-- Baltic Sea Region, Congresses.

Christian saints-- Cult-- Livonia, Congresses.

Christian saints-- Cult-- Scandinavia, Congresses.

Church history-- Middle Ages, 600-1500, Congresses.

Christian hagiography.

Christian saints-- Cult.

Church history-- Middle Ages.

Church history.

Baltic Sea Region, Church history, Congresses.

Livonia, Church history, Congresses.

Europe, Baltic Sea Region.

Europe, Livonia.

Scandinavia.

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Jensen, Carsten Selch

Jensen, Kurt Villads

Lehtonen, Tuomas M. S.

Petersen, Nils Holger

Sands, Tracey R.

Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura,sponsoring body.

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