Format:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 300 p.)
Edition:
Issued also in print
ISBN:
9783111351193
Content:
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
Note:
Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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Contributors
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Doing Memory of Medieval Saints and Heroes in the Baltic Sea Region
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Popular Culture
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A Tool to Think With? Saint Birgitta as Cultural Heritage in Post-Reformation Finland
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Mothers of the Land: Baltic German and Estonian Personifications from the Virgin Mary to the Epic Linda
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From Bishop-Killer to Latvian National Hero: Imanta’s Transformations from the Middle Ages to Nation-Building
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Local
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Saints and Urban Medievalism: The Case of Saint Knud Rex in Modern-Day Odense
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The Memorialization of Natural Loci and the Veneration of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga in Northwestern Russia (19th–Early 21st Centuries)
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National
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State, Race, and Colonization: Tyrgils Knutsson’s Controversial Monuments in 19th-Century Finland
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St Erik, Reformation, and Enlightenment: Early Modern History Writing on a Swedish Catholic Patron of the Realm
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Shared Heritage
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The Story of Sigtuna’s Destruction (1187) and Estonian Nationalism, 1868–1940
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The Bold/Bald Count: Tracing the 1½ Memories of Gerhard III of Holsatia
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“The Holy Ascetics of Karelia”: The Integration of Russian Medieval Saintly Cults into Finnish Orthodox Collective Memory, 1896–1944
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Concluding Remarks
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Remaking Saints and Heroes
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Index
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Issued also in print
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111351223
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111350622
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9783111350622
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783111351193
