[H-verkko] Helsinki, Saints and Sainthood around the Baltic Sea: Orality, Literacy and Communication in the Middle Ages

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Saints and Sainthood around the Baltic Sea: Orality, Literacy and
Communication in the Middle Ages
Helsinki 13.10.2011 klo 09:00 - 14.10.2011 klo 17:00

Programme


Thursday 13th October 2011

9–9:30 Coffee, opening words
Carsten Selch Jensen, University of Copenhagen

9:30–12 Session I 

The Transformative Power of Saints: Saints, Churches and Cults
Martin Wansgaard Jürgensen, Department of Church History, University
of Copenhagen

Saints and Landscapes. Framing Space and Local Identities in Medieval
Alsace (12th/13th centuries)
Uta Kleine, FernUniversität Hagen, Historisches Institut

Varangian Saints and Christ-Like Varangians in Early Rus’
Christianity
John Lind, Independent Scholar, Dr. Phil.

12–14 Lunch break

14–16 Session II 

History Made Sacred. Martyrdom and the Making of a Sanctified
Beginning in Livonia in the Early 13th Century
Carsten Selch Jensen, Department of Church History, University of
Copenhagen

The Cult of Scandinavian Saints in Medieval Livonia
Anu Mänd, Tallinn University

Coffee break

16–18 Session III 

St Canute Lavard around the Baltic Sea
Nils Holger Petersen, Department of Church History, University of
Copenhagen

Saints at Wars in the Baltic Region
Kurt Villads Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, Odense



19:30 Conference Dinner at Restaurant Sunn
address: Aleksanterinkatu 26, 2nd floor
Senate square, 00170 Helsinki



Friday 14th October 2011

9:00–12 Session IV 

Oral transmission of cultural impulses: the emergence of the cult of
St Olav in Novgorod
Elena Melnikova, Russian Academy of Science’s Institute for History,
Russia

A German Saint in a German Region? The Cult of Dorothea of Montau in
Prussia
Cordelia Hess, Department of history, University of Stockholm 

The Burning of Saint Katherine: Adaptations of the Legend of Saint
Katherine of Alexandria in Finnish Oral Poetry
Irma-Riitta Järvinen, The Finnish Literature Society, research
department

12–14 Lunch break

14–17 Session V 

Saints and Political Identities in Late Medieval Lund and Uppsala
Tracey R. Sands, Department of Church History, University of
Copenhagen

Coffee break

Saints and Guilds
Lars Bisgaard, University of Southern Denmark, Odense

Concluding remarks
Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen, The Finnish Literature Society



All the sessions take place at The Finnish Literature Society, Great
Hall (Hallituskatu 1, 2nd floor)

The seminar open to public. Welcome!



The seminar is organized by the Finnish Academy project Oral and
Literary Cultures in Medieval and Early Modern Baltic Sea Region:
Cultural Transfer, Linguistic Registers and Communicative Networks
and The Finnish Literature Society in collaboration with the
Department of Church history, University of Copenhagen.

Further information: Finnish Literature Society, Tuomas M. S.
Lehtonen, mobile +358 201 131 200 tuomas.lehtonen at finlit.fi

 
 


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