IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 807: Between Local Identities and Transregional Influences: Medieval Saints in the Baltic Sea Region, II

Tuesday 5 July 2022, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:	DFG Projekt 'Heilige und Helden von der Christianisierung bis zum Nationalismus: Symbole, Bilder, Erinnerung (Nord-West Russland, baltische und nordische Länder)', Universität Greifswald
Organiser:	Gustavs Strenga, School of Humanities, Tallinn University
Moderator/Chair:	Anti Selart, Institute of History & Archaeology, University of Tartu
Paper 807-a	Indigenous Visionaries: An Alternative Way of Accessing Religious Change in Scandinavia (Language: English) Cordelia Hess, Institutionen för historiska studier, Göteborgs Universitet Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography
Paper 807-b	St Birgitta and the Merchants: Brigittine Monasteries across the Baltic Sea in Testamentary Bequests (Language: English) Anna-Stina Hägglund, Department of History, Åbo Akademi University, Turku Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography
Paper 807-c	Sponsa Christi and Beata mater nostra: Birgitta in the Feast Day Sermons of Vadstena Abbey (Language: English) Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, School of Social Sciences & Humanities, University of Tampere Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography
Abstract	The medieval saints were not just religious figures. Their cults expressed local social and political contexts and the study of them allows to reveal regional histories. However, medieval sainthood had the potential to be a transregional phenomenon; the cult of Saint Birgitta is a good example of that. This session will discuss the relationship between regional and transregional expressions of sainthood in medieval Sweden.