Saints and sainthood around the Baltic Sea
Subtitle: identity, literacy, and communication in the Middle Ages
By: edited by Carsten Selch Jensen, Tracey R. Sands, Nils Holger Petersen, Kurt Villads Jensen, Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen
Contributors: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Series: Studies in medieval and early modern culture -- LIV; Studies in medieval and early modern culture -- 54.
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Kalamazoo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781580443234
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Christian saints; Congresses; Cult; Christian hagiography; History; Church history; Middle Ages
Description: "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)."--
Notes: 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.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: The elusive reality of saints : saints, churches, and cults / Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen; title: Medieval cults and modern inventions : Dorothy of Montau, the Teutonic Order, and "Katholiken fūr Hitler" / Cordelia Hess; title: Finnish saints' traditions and folklore : interpreting St. Anne, St. Katherine of Alexandria, and St. Birgitta of Sweden / Irma-Riitta Järvinen; title: Varangian saints and Christlike Varangians in Early Rus' Christianity / John H. Lind; title: The cult and visual representation of Scandinavian saints in medieval Livonia / Anu Mänd; title: History made sacred : martyrdom and the making of a sanctified beginning in early-thirteenth-century Livonia / Carsten Selch Jensen; title: St. Canute Lavard around the Baltic Sea / Nils Holger Petersen; title: Saints, guilds, and seals : from exclusivity to competition / Lars Bisgaard; title: Saints and political identities in late medieval Lund and Uppsala / Tracey R. Sands; title: Saints at war in the Baltic region / Kurt Villads Jensen; title: Saints around the Baltic : some remarks, conclusions, and further questions / Felicitas Schmieder.