Saints and Sainthood around the Baltic Sea: Identity, Literacy, and Communication in the Middle Ages

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

Saints and Sainthood around the Baltic Sea: Identity, Literacy, and Communication in the Middle Ages

Carsten Selch Jensen (Editor), Nils Holger Petersen (Editor), Kurt Villads Jensen (Editor), Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen (Editor), Tracey R. Sands (Editor)

Section of Church History

Abstract

This collection of articles covers most of 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 will also address questions of methodology in the research on the medieval cult of saints. Chronologically, the articles cover most of the Middle Ages from the Scandinavian Varangians in Rus in the 10th century to the late medieval Northern societies of the late 15th century.

Original language	English

Publisher	Medieval Institute Publications
Volume	LIV
ISBN (Print)	9781580443234
ISBN (Electronic)	9781580443241
Publication status	Published - 2018

Series	Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Keywords

Faculty of Theology
Saints
Sainthood
Baltic Sea Region
Middle Ages
Identity
Literacy
Communication

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