Jensen / Sands / Petersen Saints and Sainthood around the Baltic Sea

Identity, Literacy, and Communication in the Middle Ages
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-58044-324-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 54, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

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). The articles cover a wide range of topics, for example the introduction of foreign (and old) saints into new regions, the creation of new local cults of saints in newly Christianized regions, the role of the cult of saints in the creation of political and lay identities, the adaption of the cult of saints in folk poetry, and the potential role of saints in times of war. The articles also address questions of methodology in research on the medieval cult of saints. Chronologically, the articles cover most of the Middle Ages from the Scandinavian Varangians in Rus in the tenth century to the late medieval Northern societies of the late fifteenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jensen, Carsten Selch

Sands, Tracey

Sands, Tracey (Independent Scholar)

Petersen, Nils Holger

Jensen, Kurt Villads

Lehtonen, Tuomas M. S.

Lehtonen, Tuomas M. S. (Secretary General

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Preface
Part I: Introduction and Methodological Questions
Saints and Sainthood around the Baltic Sea: An Introduction by Carsten S. Jensen, Tracey R. Sands, Nils Holger Petersen, Kurt V. Jensen, and Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen
The Elusive Quality of Saints: Saints, Churches, and Cults by Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen
Medieval Cults and Modern Inventions: Dorothy of Montau, the Teutonic Order and Katholiken für Hitler by Cordelia Heß
Finnish Saints' Tradition and Folklore: Interpreting St. Anne, St. Katherine of Alexandria, and St. Birgitta of Sweden by Irma-Riitta Järvinen
Part II: Cult of Saints in Medieval Russia and Livonia
Varangian Saints and Christ-Like Varangians in Early Rus' Christianity by John H. Lind
The Cult and Visual Representation of Scandinavian Saints in Medieval Livonia by Anu Mänd
History Made Sacred: Martyrdom and the Making of a Sanctified Beginning in Early Thirteenth-Century Livonia by Carsten Selch Jensen
Part III: Saints' Cults and the Creation of Regional and National Identities
St. Canute Lavard around the Baltic Sea by Nils Holger Petersen
Saints, Guilds, and Seals: From Exclusivity to Competition by Lars Bisgaard
Saints and Political Identities in Late Medieval Lund and Uppsala by Tracey R. Sands
Saints at War in the Baltic Region by Kurt Villads Jensen
Saints around the Baltic: Some Remarks, Conclusions, and Further Questions by Felicitas Schmieder
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

- Carsten Selch Jensen is Associate Professor in Church History at the University of Copenhagen.

- Tracey Sands is an independent scholar of Scandinavian Studies, based in California.

- Nils Holger Petersen is Associate Professor emeritus of Church History, University of Copenhagen.

- Kurt Villads Jensen is Professor in medieval history and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University.

- Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen is Secretary General of the Finnish Literature Society, and Adjunct Professor (Docent) of European History at the University of Helsinki.