Sources and Methods for the History of Experience

Reetta Eiranen is a Researcher at the Research Council of Finland's Centre of Excellence in Nationalism Research in the Humanities (NARS) at the Finnish Literature Society.Riikka Miettinen is Associate Professor of Social History at Tampere University, Finland and works as a Researcher funded by the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland.Raisa Maria Toivo is Professor of History at Tampere University, Finland.This volume is part of the work conducted at the Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in the History of Experience at Tampere University (2018-2025).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. First-person texts as sources for the history of experience; Reetta Eiranen and Sami Suodenjoki.- 3. Oral history and memory: Boundaries, possibilities and construction of experience; Antti Malinen.- 4. Sermons and exempla as sources for the history of experience; Sari Katajala-Peltomaa.- 5. Experiencing with and through photographs; Tanja Vahtikari.- 6. Visual hagiographies and the experience of disability in Medieval and Renaissance Italy; Karen McCluskey and Louise St. Guillaume.- 7. Literary fiction as a source of history of experience; Mikko Kemppainen and Jussi Lahtinen.- 8. Premodern legal records as sources for studying experience; Riikka Miettinen and Saku Pihko.- 9. Reading quantitative and qualitative sources in economic history as histories of experience; Pirjo Markkola. -10. Tracing experience in administrative sources; Johanna Annola.