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E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 20201 104 kr
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Demonic possession was a spiritual state that often had physical symptoms; however, in Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa argues that demonic possession was a social phenomenon which should be understood with regard to the community and culture. She focuses on significant case studies from canonization processes (c. 1240-1450) which show how each set of sources formed its own specific context, in whichdemonic presence derived from different motivations, reasonings, and methods of categorization. The chosen perspective is that of lived religion, which is both a thematic approach and a methodology: a focus on rituals, symbols, and gestures, as well as sensitivity to nuances and careful contextualizing of thecases are constitutive elements of the argumentation. The analysis contests the hierarchy between the ''learned'' and the ''popular'' within religion, as well as the existence of a strict polarity between individual and collective religious participation. Demonic presence disclosed negotiations over authority and agency; it shows how the personal affected the communal, and vice versa, and how they were eventually transformed into discourses and institutions of the Church; that is, definitions ofthe miraculous and the diabolical. Geographically, the volume covers Western Europe, comparing Northern and Southern material and customs. The structure follows the logic of the phenomenon, beginning with the background reasons offered as a cause of demonic possession, continuing with communities''responses and emotions, including construction of sacred caregiving methods. Finally, the ways in which demonic presence contributed to wider societal debates in the fields of politics and spirituality are discussed. Alterity and inversion of identity, gender, and various forms of corporeality and the interplay between the sacred and diabolical are themes that run all through the volume.
E-bok
Engelska, 20201 104 kr
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Demonic possession was a spiritual state that often had physical symptoms; however, in Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa argues that demonic possession was a social phenomenon which should be understood with regard to the community and culture. She focuses on significant case studies from canonization processes (c. 1240-1450) which show how each set of sources formed its own specific context, in whichdemonic presence derived from different motivations, reasonings, and methods of categorization. The chosen perspective is that of lived religion, which is both a thematic approach and a methodology: a focus on rituals, symbols, and gestures, as well as sensitivity to nuances and careful contextualizing of thecases are constitutive elements of the argumentation. The analysis contests the hierarchy between the ''learned'' and the ''popular'' within religion, as well as the existence of a strict polarity between individual and collective religious participation. Demonic presence disclosed negotiations over authority and agency; it shows how the personal affected the communal, and vice versa, and how they were eventually transformed into discourses and institutions of the Church; that is, definitions ofthe miraculous and the diabolical. Geographically, the volume covers Western Europe, comparing Northern and Southern material and customs. The structure follows the logic of the phenomenon, beginning with the background reasons offered as a cause of demonic possession, continuing with communities''responses and emotions, including construction of sacred caregiving methods. Finally, the ways in which demonic presence contributed to wider societal debates in the fields of politics and spirituality are discussed. Alterity and inversion of identity, gender, and various forms of corporeality and the interplay between the sacred and diabolical are themes that run all through the volume.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 322 kr
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Demonic possession was a spiritual state that often had physical symptoms; however, in Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa argues that demonic possession was a social phenomenon which should be understood with regard to the community and culture. She focuses on significant case studies from canonization processes (c. 1240-1450) which show how each set of sources formed its own specific context, in which demonic presence derived from different motivations, reasonings, and methods of categorization. The chosen perspective is that of lived religion, which is both a thematic approach and a methodology: a focus on rituals, symbols, and gestures, as well as sensitivity to nuances and careful contextualizing of the cases are constitutive elements of the argumentation. The analysis contests the hierarchy between the 'learned' and the 'popular' within religion, as well as the existence of a strict polarity between individual and collective religious participation. Demonic presence disclosed negotiations over authority and agency; it shows how the personal affected the communal, and vice versa, and how they were eventually transformed into discourses and institutions of the Church; that is, definitions of the miraculous and the diabolical. Geographically, the volume covers Western Europe, comparing Northern and Southern material and customs. The structure follows the logic of the phenomenon, beginning with the background reasons offered as a cause of demonic possession, continuing with communities' responses and emotions, including construction of sacred caregiving methods. Finally, the ways in which demonic presence contributed to wider societal debates in the fields of politics and spirituality are discussed. Alterity and inversion of identity, gender, and various forms of corporeality and the interplay between the sacred and diabolical are themes that run all through the volume.
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
2 259 kr
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This book analyses the interconnection of space and experience in Roman antiquity, Byzantium, and the Middle Ages, ca. 100 BCE–1500 CE.The joint analysis of these two conceptual spearheads enables a novel analysis of how space affected social frameworks and how experiences built communities and shaped individual lives over the longue durée. The volume manifests the richness and innovativeness of analysing individual and shared experiences together with space as cultural, political, and social constructions, bridging micro and macro levels. Ten high-quality case studies explore experiencing domestic, urban, political, and sacred space. An in-depth introduction explains the main concepts, and an epilogue binds the themes and chapters together. The volume utilizes a wide array of source material and has comprehensive coverage chronologically, geographically, and disciplinarily, including several branches of classical, Byzantine, and medieval studies.The volume serves graduate students and scholars of several disciplines and fields: classics and ancient history, medieval history, Byzantine studies, archaeology, and art history. It will also be fruitful to scholars of the modern period whose work touches upon the field of the history of experiences.Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
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PDF, Engelska, 2026797 kr
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This book analyses the interconnection of space and experience in Roman antiquity, Byzantium, and the Middle Ages, ca. 100 BCE-1500 CE.The joint analysis of these two conceptual spearheads enables a novel analysis of how space affected social frameworks and how experiences built communities and shaped individual lives over the longue duree. The volume manifests the richness and innovativeness of analysing individual and shared experiences together with space as cultural, political, and social constructions, bridging micro and macro levels. Ten high-quality case studies explore experiencing domestic, urban, political, and sacred space. An in-depth introduction explains the main concepts, and an epilogue binds the themes and chapters together. The volume utilizes a wide array of source material and has comprehensive coverage chronologically, geographically, and disciplinarily, including several branches of classical, Byzantine, and medieval studies.The volume serves graduate students and scholars of several disciplines and fields: classics and ancient history, medieval history, Byzantine studies, archaeology, and art history. It will also be fruitful to scholars of the modern period whose work touches upon the field of the history of experiences.
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Engelska, 2026797 kr
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This book analyses the interconnection of space and experience in Roman antiquity, Byzantium, and the Middle Ages, ca. 100 BCE-1500 CE.The joint analysis of these two conceptual spearheads enables a novel analysis of how space affected social frameworks and how experiences built communities and shaped individual lives over the longue duree. The volume manifests the richness and innovativeness of analysing individual and shared experiences together with space as cultural, political, and social constructions, bridging micro and macro levels. Ten high-quality case studies explore experiencing domestic, urban, political, and sacred space. An in-depth introduction explains the main concepts, and an epilogue binds the themes and chapters together. The volume utilizes a wide array of source material and has comprehensive coverage chronologically, geographically, and disciplinarily, including several branches of classical, Byzantine, and medieval studies.The volume serves graduate students and scholars of several disciplines and fields: classics and ancient history, medieval history, Byzantine studies, archaeology, and art history. It will also be fruitful to scholars of the modern period whose work touches upon the field of the history of experiences.
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PDF, Engelska, 2025774 kr
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The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back up the authority of popes, and even occasionally ended up being sanctified themselves. Yet, current scholarship rarely treats these three components of medieval faith together. This book remedies that by bringing together scholars to consider the links among the three and the ways that understanding them can help us build a more complete picture of the working of the church and Christianity in the Middle Ages.|This book brings together scholars to consider the links among the roles of popes, saints, and crusaders and the ways that understanding them can help us build a more complete picture of the working of the church and Christianity in the Middle Ages.
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Engelska, 2025774 kr
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The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back up the authority of popes, and even occasionally ended up being sanctified themselves. Yet, current scholarship rarely treats these three components of medieval faith together. This book remedies that by bringing together scholars to consider the links among the three and the ways that understanding them can help us build a more complete picture of the working of the church and Christianity in the Middle Ages.|This book brings together scholars to consider the links among the roles of popes, saints, and crusaders and the ways that understanding them can help us build a more complete picture of the working of the church and Christianity in the Middle Ages.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
684 kr
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The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back up the authority of popes, and even occasionally ended up being sanctified themselves. Yet, current scholarship rarely treats these three components of medieval faith together. This book remedies that by bringing together scholars to consider the links among the three and the ways that understanding them can help us build a more complete picture of the working of the church and Christianity in the Middle Ages.|This book brings together scholars to consider the links among the roles of popes, saints, and crusaders and the ways that understanding them can help us build a more complete picture of the working of the church and Christianity in the Middle Ages.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
2 506 kr
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This study is an exploration of lived religion and gender across the Reformation, from the 14th–18th centuries. Combining conceptual development with empirical history, the authors explore these two topics via themes of power, agency, work, family, sainthood and witchcraft.By advancing the theoretical category of ‘experience’, Lived Religion and Gender reveals multiple femininities and masculinities in the intersectional context of lived religion. The authors analyse specific case studies from both medieval and early modern sources, such as secular court records, to tell the stories of both individuals and large social groups. By exploring lived religion and gender on a range of social levels including the domestic sphere, public devotion and spirituality, this study explains how late medieval and early modern people performed both religion and gender in ways that were vastly different from what ideologists have prescribed.Lived Religion and Gender covers a wide geographical area in western Europe including Italy, Scandinavia and Finland, making this study an invaluable resource for scholars and students concerned with the history of religion, the history of gender, the history of the family, as well as medieval and early modern European history.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
646 kr
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This study is an exploration of lived religion and gender across the Reformation, from the 14th–18th centuries. Combining conceptual development with empirical history, the authors explore these two topics via themes of power, agency, work, family, sainthood and witchcraft.By advancing the theoretical category of ‘experience’, Lived Religion and Gender reveals multiple femininities and masculinities in the intersectional context of lived religion. The authors analyse specific case studies from both medieval and early modern sources, such as secular court records, to tell the stories of both individuals and large social groups. By exploring lived religion and gender on a range of social levels including the domestic sphere, public devotion and spirituality, this study explains how late medieval and early modern people performed both religion and gender in ways that were vastly different from what ideologists have prescribed.Lived Religion and Gender covers a wide geographical area in western Europe including Italy, Scandinavia and Finland, making this study an invaluable resource for scholars and students concerned with the history of religion, the history of gender, the history of the family, as well as medieval and early modern European history.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Engelska, 2020706 kr
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This study is an exploration of lived religion and gender across the Reformation, from the 14th–18th centuries. Combining conceptual development with empirical history, the authors explore these two topics via themes of power, agency, work, family, sainthood and witchcraft.
By advancing the theoretical category of ‘experience’, Lived Religion and Gender reveals multiple femininities and masculinities in the intersectional context of lived religion. The authors analyse specific case studies from both medieval and early modern sources, such as secular court records, to tell the stories of both individuals and large social groups. By exploring lived religion and gender on a range of social levels including the domestic sphere, public devotion and spirituality, this study explains how late medieval and early modern people performed both religion and gender in ways that were vastly different from what ideologists have prescribed.
Lived Religion and Gender covers a wide geographical area in western Europe including Italy, Scandinavia and Finland, making this study an invaluable resource for scholars and students concerned with the history of religion, the history of gender, the history of the family, as well as medieval and early modern European history.
The Introduction chapter of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 202026 kr
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This study is an exploration of lived religion and gender across the Reformation, from the 14th–18th centuries. Combining conceptual development with empirical history, the authors explore these two topics via themes of power, agency, work, family, sainthood and witchcraft.
By advancing the theoretical category of ‘experience’, Lived Religion and Gender reveals multiple femininities and masculinities in the intersectional context of lived religion. The authors analyse specific case studies from both medieval and early modern sources, such as secular court records, to tell the stories of both individuals and large social groups. By exploring lived religion and gender on a range of social levels including the domestic sphere, public devotion and spirituality, this study explains how late medieval and early modern people performed both religion and gender in ways that were vastly different from what ideologists have prescribed.
Lived Religion and Gender covers a wide geographical area in western Europe including Italy, Scandinavia and Finland, making this study an invaluable resource for scholars and students concerned with the history of religion, the history of gender, the history of the family, as well as medieval and early modern European history.
The Introduction chapter of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
1 154 kr
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Del 23 - International Medieval Research
Miracles in Medieval Canonization Processes
Structures, Functions, and Methodologies
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 376 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
544 kr
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'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural, political and social place of religion in society. It also makes known in English the work of a series of Finnish historians elaborating together a pioneering vision of the notion of experience in the discipline of history.'- Piroska Nagy, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada This open access book offers a theoretical introduction to the history of experience on three conceptual levels: everyday experience, experience as process, and experience as structure. Chapters apply 'experience' to empirical case studies, exploring how people have made and shared theirreligion through experience in history. This book understands experience as a simultaneously socially constructed and intimately personal process that connects individuals to communities and past to future, thereby forming structures that create and direct societies. It represents the crossroads of a new field of the history of experience, and an established tradition of the history of lived religion. Chapters offer a longue durée view from the fourteenth-century heretics, via experiences of miracle, madness, sickness, suffering, prayer, conversion and death, to the religious artisanship of soldiers in the Second World War frontlines. It concentrates on Northern Europe, but includes materials from Italy, France and United Kingdom.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
437 kr
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'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural, political and social place of religion in society. It also makes known in English the work of a series of Finnish historians elaborating together a pioneering vision of the notion of experience in the discipline of history.'- Piroska Nagy, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada This open access book offers a theoretical introduction to the history of experience on three conceptual levels: everyday experience, experience as process, and experience as structure. Chapters apply 'experience' to empirical case studies, exploring how people have made and shared theirreligion through experience in history. This book understands experience as a simultaneously socially constructed and intimately personal process that connects individuals to communities and past to future, thereby forming structures that create and direct societies. It represents the crossroads of a new field of the history of experience, and an established tradition of the history of lived religion. Chapters offer a longue durée view from the fourteenth-century heretics, via experiences of miracle, madness, sickness, suffering, prayer, conversion and death, to the religious artisanship of soldiers in the Second World War frontlines. It concentrates on Northern Europe, but includes materials from Italy, France and United Kingdom.
Del 12 - Later Medieval Europe
Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
2 531 kr
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The boundaries between mental, social and physical order and various states of disorder – unexpected mood swings, fury, melancholy, stress, insomnia, and demonic influence – form the core of this compilation. For medieval men and women, religious rituals, magic, herbs, dietary requirements as well as to scholastic medicine were a way to cope with the vagaries of mental wellbeing; the focus of the articles is on the interaction and osmosis between lay and elite cultures as well as medical, theological and political theories and practical experiences of daily life.Time span of the volume is the later Middle Ages, c. 1300-1500. Geographically it covers Western Europe and the comparison between Mediterranean world and Northern Europe is an important constituent.Contributors are Jussi Hanska, Gerhard Jaritz, Timo Joutsivuo, Kirsi Kanerva, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Marko Lamberg, Iona McCleery, Susanna Niiranen, Sophie Oosterwijk, and Catherine Rider.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
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This book brings together scholars to consider the links among the roles of popes, saints, and crusaders and the ways that understanding them can help us build a more complete picture of the working of the church and Christianity in the Middle Ages.
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Finska, 2022267 kr
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Myllärin mädäntynyt aasi virkoaa henkiin, raivopäisen mustasukkaisesta aviomiehestä sukeutuu säyseä ja rakastava puoliso ja vuolaaseen virtaan pudonnut pikkulapsi löytyy kolme päivää myöhemmin täysin vahingoittumattomana - mutta puhumaan oppineena.Hädän hetkellä keskiajan ihminen kääntyi pyhimysten puoleen. Pyhimykset välittivät jumalallista voimaa ja saivat aikaan ihmeitä: palauttivat sokeille näkökyvyn, korjasivat vääntyneitä raajoja, auttoivat löytämään kadonneita tavaroita. Vuorovaikutus heidän kanssaan oli erottamaton osa jokapäiväistä elämää.Verta vuotava kuva ja muita outoja ihmeitä uppoutuu ihmekokemusten, pyhimysten kunnioittamisen ja eletyn uskon suhteeseen myöhäiskeskiajan Euroopassa. Hätkähdyttävien ja traagisten tapausten takaa paljastuu mitä moninaisimpia tarinoita ja kohtaloita. Samalla selviää, millaisiin hämmästyttäviin ihmetekoihin ovat pystyneet muiden muassa luostarijärjestön perustaja Birgitta, Ranskan kuningas Ludvig IX sekä filosofi-teologi Tuomas Akvinolainen.
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Finska, 2022288 kr
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Myllärin mädäntynyt aasi virkoaa henkiin, raivopäisen mustasukkaisesta aviomiehestä sukeutuu säyseä ja rakastava puoliso ja vuolaaseen virtaan pudonnut pikkulapsi löytyy kolme päivää myöhemmin täysin vahingoittumattomana - mutta puhumaan oppineena.Hädän hetkellä keskiajan ihminen kääntyi pyhimysten puoleen. Pyhimykset välittivät jumalallista voimaa ja saivat aikaan ihmeitä: palauttivat sokeille näkökyvyn, korjasivat vääntyneitä raajoja, auttoivat löytämään kadonneita tavaroita. Vuorovaikutus heidän kanssaan oli erottamaton osa jokapäiväistä elämää.Verta vuotava kuva ja muita outoja ihmeitä uppoutuu ihmekokemusten, pyhimysten kunnioittamisen ja eletyn uskon suhteeseen myöhäiskeskiajan Euroopassa. Hätkähdyttävien ja traagisten tapausten takaa paljastuu mitä moninaisimpia tarinoita ja kohtaloita. Samalla selviää, millaisiin hämmästyttäviin ihmetekoihin ovat pystyneet muiden muassa luostarijärjestön perustaja Birgitta, Ranskan kuningas Ludvig IX sekä filosofi-teologi Tuomas Akvinolainen.
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Finska, 2026271 kr
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Pyhimys naapurissa kertoo keskiajan Suomesta, jossa pyhimysten, taivaallisten naapureiden, kanssa jaettiin ilot ja surut. Eletyssä uskossa olivat mukana tavat ja tilat sekä tunteet, aistit ja ruumiillisuus.Teos tuo aikakauden ihmiset ja heidän värikkään arkensa lähelle meitä. Se selvittää, missä asioissa pyhimyksiltä pyydettiin apua ja miten apuun vastattiin. Miksi Pyhälle Katariinalle lahjoitettiin hopeiset rinnat ja Pyhälle Henrikille hevonen ja haarniska? Mitä tekemistä pamahtavilla ruutipalloilla oli Autuaan Hemmingin kanssa? Teoksessa pureudutaan myös Neitsyt Marian kultin paikallispiirteisiin, veistoksiin ja maalauksiin.Pyhimys naapurissa kyseenalaistaa väitteet keskiajan Suomesta ”puolipakanallisena” maana. Teos hyödyntää lukuisia erilaisia lähteitä ja osoittaa, että hallinnollisesta johtoasemastaan huolimatta kirkko ei kontrolloinut kaikkea, vaan keskiajan ihmisillä oli mahdollisuus elää uskoaan omannäköisillään tavoilla.
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Finska, 2026275 kr
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Miksi Petrus Pethersonin vaimo lahjoitti pyhälle Katariinalle hopeiset rinnat? Mitä tekemistä pamahtavilla ruutipalloilla on autuaan Hemmingin kanssa? Pyhimys naapurissa kertoo aiemmin kuulematonta tarinaa uskonnollisista tavoista ja elämästä keskiajan Suomessa. Pyhimysten, taivaallisten naapureiden kanssa jaettiin ilot ja surut. Eletyssä uskossa olivat mukana tunteet, aistit ja ruumiillisuus.Teos tuo aikakauden ihmiset ja heidän värikkään arkensa lähelle meitä. Se selvittää, millaisia olivat suositut pyhiinvaellukset, millaisia lahjoja pyhimyksille annettiin ja miksi näin tehtiin. Millaisen muodon Neitsyt Marian kultti sai Suomessa, ja miten hänen kanssaan neuvoteltiin veistoksen välityksellä? Missä asioissa pyhimyksiltä pyydettiin apua? Teos hyödyntää lukuisia erilaisia lähteitä ja kuvaa elävästi keskiaikaisten ihmisten kokemuksia. Pyhimys naapurissa kyseenalaistaa väitteet keskiajan Suomesta ”puolipakanallisena maana”. Se osoittaa, että hallinnollisesta johtoasemastaan huolimatta kirkko ei kontrolloinut kaikkea, vaan keskiajan ihmisillä oli mahdollisuus elää uskoaan omannäköisillään tavoilla.
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Teos lähestyy lasten kokemuksia antiikissa ja keskiajalla tarinoiden ja konkreettisten esimerkkien kautta. Mistä arki koostui, miten tytöt ja pojat käyttivät aikansa, ja millaisia iloja ja suruja elämään kuului? Usein ajatellaan, että lasten elämä antiikissa ja keskiajalla oli kurjaa ja heitä kohdeltiin julmasti. Vastakohdaksi esitetään valoisa ja sivistynyt nykyaika, joka korostaa lapsen oikeuksia. Lapsuus ja arki antiikissa ja keskiajalla osoittaa tuon käsityksen yksipuolisuuden. Lasten elämää luonnehti suhde vanhempiin ja muihin perheenjäseniin, leikki ja oppiminen niin koulussa kuin jokapäiväisissäkin askareissa - kuten nykyäänkin. Toisaalta lasten tekemä työ ja uskonto arjen rytmittäjänä tekevät vanhan maailman lapsuudesta meille vieraan. Teos tuo esille lasten omia näkökulmia ja kokemuksia sekä vertailee elämää Rooman valtakunnassa ja sydänkeskiajalla. Elämänmakuisten esimerkkiensä ansiosta kirja on kiinnostavaa luettavaa. Se on ensimmäinen laaja suomeksi tehty tutkimus aiheesta, ja sen näkökulmat ovat kansainvälisestikin uraa uurtavia.