Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th–20th centuries)

book: Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th–20th centuries)

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2024

Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th–20th centuries)

Edited by: Cordelia Heß and Gustavs Strenga

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111351193

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This anthology is about the representations and uses of medieval saints, heroes, and heroic events as elements of popular, local, and national culture during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Baltic Sea region: Scandinavia, Finland, Baltic countries, Northern Germany and North-Western Russia. Authors examine the processes of how medieval saints and heroes have been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, used, and reflected during modernity, and by whom. The focus of the anthology is on "doing" memory as a practice that commemorated the past and shaped spaces and identities in the present. It approaches the memory of saints and heroes, for example, Swedish Saints Birgitta and Eric, Danish Saint Knud, Kyivan Princess Olga, Swedish military leader in Finland Tyrgils Knutsson, Liv/Latvian warrior Imanta and Holsatian count Gerhard III as a shared heritage and as part of national, local and popular culture. The anthology contributes to the understanding of the Baltic Sea region through the study of saints, cults and heroic representations in the longue durée between the Middle Ages and modernity. It also adds nuance to the use of popular concepts of memory studies, particularly an update of Pierre Nora’s lieux de mémoire.

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Cordelia Heß and Gustavs Strenga, University of Greifswald, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Doing Memory of Medieval Saints and Heroes in the Baltic Sea Region Cordelia Heß and Gustavs Strenga Open Access Download PDF	1
Popular Culture
A Tool to Think With? Saint Birgitta as Cultural Heritage in Post-Reformation Finland Sari Katajala-Peltomaa Open Access Download PDF	23
Mothers of the Land: Baltic German and Estonian Personifications from the Virgin Mary to the Epic Linda Kristina Jõekalda Open Access Download PDF	43
From Bishop-Killer to Latvian National Hero: Imanta’s Transformations from the Middle Ages to Nation-Building Gustavs Strenga Open Access Download PDF	81
Local
Saints and Urban Medievalism: The Case of Saint Knud Rex in Modern-Day Odense Steffen Hope Open Access Download PDF	113
The Memorialization of Natural Loci and the Veneration of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga in Northwestern Russia (19th–Early 21st Centuries) Marianna Shakhnovich Open Access Download PDF	145
National
State, Race, and Colonization: Tyrgils Knutsson’s Controversial Monuments in 19th-Century Finland Anna Ripatti Open Access Download PDF	161
St Erik, Reformation, and Enlightenment: Early Modern History Writing on a Swedish Catholic Patron of the Realm Henrik Ågren Open Access Download PDF	189
Shared Heritage
The Story of Sigtuna’s Destruction (1187) and Estonian Nationalism, 1868–1940 Mart Kuldkepp Open Access Download PDF	207
The Bold/Bald Count: Tracing the 1½ Memories of Gerhard III of Holsatia Jan Rüdiger Open Access Download PDF	225
“The Holy Ascetics of Karelia”: The Integration of Russian Medieval Saintly Cults into Finnish Orthodox Collective Memory, 1896–1944 Kati Parppei Open Access Download PDF	257
Concluding Remarks
Remaking Saints and Heroes Anti Selart Open Access Download PDF	283
Index Open Access Download PDF	295

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: scholars in literary studies and gender studies, art historians, historians
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 300
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 16
- Coloured Illustrations: 21
Keywords: Heroes; saints; Middle Ages; Memory Studies

eBook

Published: April 22, 2024
ISBN: 9783111351193

Hardcover

Published: April 22, 2024
ISBN: 9783111350622