Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
Biographic Data
| ID | 572652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sari Katajala-Peltomaa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sari |
| FAMILY NAME | Katajala-Peltomaa |
| SIGNATURE | KATAJALA-PELTOMAA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6355-3740 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Companion to Medieval Canonization Processes
Lived Religion and Shared Experience in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
This special issue of JMEMS takes up the classical debate on the “shared” and the “individual” through the concepts of “lived religion” on the one hand and “experience” on the other. The collection presents the state-of-the-art within the emerging field of history of “lived religion,” exemplifying its differences from earlier notions of “popular religion.” The articles take a step forward in the field of lived religion by approaching it from the …
An Imagined Experience? Dancing as Intercorporeality in the Fifteenth-Century Pastoralia of Vadstena Abbey
Proper gestures, signs, and rituals were important for orthopraxis in the Middle Ages; they affected the way religion was “lived out,” since the body was a site where religion was experienced. Analyzing fifteenth-century pastoralia from Vadstena Abbey in Sweden, this article argues that didactic textual representations of dancing reveal elements of lived religion. The imagined dancing in preachers’ exempla served as a warning against illicit beha…
The Permeable Self
Punition par le diable comme ‘expérience’ en Suède au xive siècle
L’interaction avec un saint est un élément important de la religiosité laïque médiévale et les miracles de guérison étaient des manifestations typiques du pouvoir des saints. Les intercesseurs célestes détenaient le pouvoir sur la nature et, en plus de guérir, ils pouvaient également punir. Le miracle de punition était un topos dans le matériel hagiographique depuis l’Antiquité tardive : les saints étaient particulièrement désireux de punir les p…
Miracolo ! Emozione, spettacolo e potere nella storia dei secoli xiii-xvii, Laura Andreani et Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (dir.)
L’intérêt académique et la problématique concernant les saints, les miracles et les textes hagiographiques en général ont augmenté ces dernières années. Les actes de la troisième conférence internationale de théologie, anthropologie et politique – avec le même titre que le volume lui-même – organisée par l’Opera del duomo di Orvieto, du 13 au 15 novembre 2018, constituent une contribution bienvenue dans ce domaine. L’ouvrage collectif se compose …
Conversion as an exemplary experience in the 14 th century and today
What should we learn from another individual’s experience? What kind of narrated experiences become cultural masterplots and genres in different historical contexts? This article introduces an approach to medieval exemplary narratives of conversion that combines narrative theory and comparatist attention to the historical context and forms of narrative experientiality. We take two exempla from the sermon of the feast of the canonization of Saint …
Lived Religion and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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 religio…
Miracles in Medieval Canonization Processes
"When a beneficiary or an eye-witness to a miracle met a scribe at a saint's shrine or a notary at a canonization hearing, it was necessary to establish that the experience was miraculous. Later, the same incident may have been re-told by the clergy; this time the narration needed to entertain the audience yet also to contain a didactic message of divine grace. If the case was eventually scrutinized at the papal curia, the narration and depositio…
Lived Religion and the Long Reformation in Northern Europe c. 1300–1700
Lived Religion and the Long Reformation in Northern Europe puts Reformation in a daily life context using lived religion as a conceptual and methodological tool: exploring how people "lived out" their religion in their mundane toils and how religion created a performative space for them. This collection reinvestigates the character of the Reformation in an area that later became the heartlands of Lutheranism. The way people lived their religion w…
Church and Belief in the Middle Ages
Diabolical Rage? Children, Violence, and Demonic Possession in the Late Middle Ages
In the medieval world, demons were considered to be active agents in daily life. They could entice people to sin, but also possess an innocent victim’s body. Demoniacs—such possessed people—were often out of their mind, violent, and aggressive. This article explores specific cases of demonic possession—those of children attacking their parents, as reported in medieval canonization processes—and argues that religious rhetoric offered a means to ex…
Fatherhood, Masculinity and Lived Religion in Late-Medieval Sweden
Patriarchy and gendered power relations have been the focus of scholars of masculinity, but fatherhood, one of the most intimate aspects of masculine identity and an essential element in men's social roles, has gained relatively little attention among medievalists. Elements of being a father, like emotional ties, caregiving and commitment to one's family, form the core of this article. The focus is on the contestants of the traditional concepts l…
Children and Agency
The aim of the paper is to present a new approach to the study of pre-modern children and childhood. By exploiting concepts of modern childhood studies, particularly socialisation and agency, we intend to shift the focus from 'childhood' and parental attitudes to children's own experience and action. We synthesise recent research on children in Late Antiquity and the Late Medieval West, which were pre-modern societies based on agricultural produc…
Recent Trends in the Study of Medieval Canonizations
Canonization processes, inquiries into a putative saint's life, merits and miracles, are rich sources for the study of lived experiences as well as religious practices of lay Christians. Studies of this field have multiplied during the 1990s and 2000s; the focus had shifted from overall categorizations and comparison of various processes to a narrower but nuanced perspective; qualitative close reading of the depositions is an important method of …
Gender, Miracles, and Daily Life
Children and Agency
The aim of the paper is to present a new approach to the study of pre-modern children and childhood. By exploiting concepts of modern childhood studies, particularly socialisation and agency, we intend to shift the focus from 'childhood' and parental attitudes to children's own experience and action. We synthesise recent research on children in Late Antiquity and the Late Medieval West, which were pre-modern societies based on agricultural produc…
Fatherhood, Masculinity and Lived Religion in Late-Medieval Sweden
Patriarchy and gendered power relations have been the focus of scholars of masculinity, but fatherhood, one of the most intimate aspects of masculine identity and an essential element in men's social roles, has gained relatively little attention among medievalists. Elements of being a father, like emotional ties, caregiving and commitment to one's family, form the core of this article. The focus is on the contestants of the traditional concepts l…
Recent Trends in the Study of Medieval Canonizations
Canonization processes, inquiries into a putative saint's life, merits and miracles, are rich sources for the study of lived experiences as well as religious practices of lay Christians. Studies of this field have multiplied during the 1990s and 2000s; the focus had shifted from overall categorizations and comparison of various processes to a narrower but nuanced perspective; qualitative close reading of the depositions is an important method of …
Gender, Miracles, and Daily Life
Recent Trends in the Study of Medieval Canonizations
Canonization processes, inquiries into a putative saint's life, merits and miracles, are rich sources for the study of lived experiences as well as religious practices of lay Christians. Studies of this field have multiplied during the 1990s and 2000s; the focus had shifted from overall categorizations and comparison of various processes to a narrower but nuanced perspective; qualitative close reading of the depositions is an important method of …
Children and Agency
The aim of the paper is to present a new approach to the study of pre-modern children and childhood. By exploiting concepts of modern childhood studies, particularly socialisation and agency, we intend to shift the focus from 'childhood' and parental attitudes to children's own experience and action. We synthesise recent research on children in Late Antiquity and the Late Medieval West, which were pre-modern societies based on agricultural produc…
Fatherhood, Masculinity and Lived Religion in Late-Medieval Sweden
Patriarchy and gendered power relations have been the focus of scholars of masculinity, but fatherhood, one of the most intimate aspects of masculine identity and an essential element in men's social roles, has gained relatively little attention among medievalists. Elements of being a father, like emotional ties, caregiving and commitment to one's family, form the core of this article. The focus is on the contestants of the traditional concepts l…
Church and Belief in the Middle Ages
Diabolical Rage? Children, Violence, and Demonic Possession in the Late Middle Ages
In the medieval world, demons were considered to be active agents in daily life. They could entice people to sin, but also possess an innocent victim’s body. Demoniacs—such possessed people—were often out of their mind, violent, and aggressive. This article explores specific cases of demonic possession—those of children attacking their parents, as reported in medieval canonization processes—and argues that religious rhetoric offered a means to ex…
Lived Religion and the Long Reformation in Northern Europe c. 1300–1700
Lived Religion and the Long Reformation in Northern Europe puts Reformation in a daily life context using lived religion as a conceptual and methodological tool: exploring how people "lived out" their religion in their mundane toils and how religion created a performative space for them. This collection reinvestigates the character of the Reformation in an area that later became the heartlands of Lutheranism. The way people lived their religion w…
Miracles in Medieval Canonization Processes
"When a beneficiary or an eye-witness to a miracle met a scribe at a saint's shrine or a notary at a canonization hearing, it was necessary to establish that the experience was miraculous. Later, the same incident may have been re-told by the clergy; this time the narration needed to entertain the audience yet also to contain a didactic message of divine grace. If the case was eventually scrutinized at the papal curia, the narration and depositio…
Lived Religion and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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 religio…
Punition par le diable comme ‘expérience’ en Suède au xive siècle
L’interaction avec un saint est un élément important de la religiosité laïque médiévale et les miracles de guérison étaient des manifestations typiques du pouvoir des saints. Les intercesseurs célestes détenaient le pouvoir sur la nature et, en plus de guérir, ils pouvaient également punir. Le miracle de punition était un topos dans le matériel hagiographique depuis l’Antiquité tardive : les saints étaient particulièrement désireux de punir les p…
Miracolo ! Emozione, spettacolo e potere nella storia dei secoli xiii-xvii, Laura Andreani et Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (dir.)
L’intérêt académique et la problématique concernant les saints, les miracles et les textes hagiographiques en général ont augmenté ces dernières années. Les actes de la troisième conférence internationale de théologie, anthropologie et politique – avec le même titre que le volume lui-même – organisée par l’Opera del duomo di Orvieto, du 13 au 15 novembre 2018, constituent une contribution bienvenue dans ce domaine. L’ouvrage collectif se compose …
Conversion as an exemplary experience in the 14 th century and today
What should we learn from another individual’s experience? What kind of narrated experiences become cultural masterplots and genres in different historical contexts? This article introduces an approach to medieval exemplary narratives of conversion that combines narrative theory and comparatist attention to the historical context and forms of narrative experientiality. We take two exempla from the sermon of the feast of the canonization of Saint …
The Permeable Self
A Companion to Medieval Canonization Processes
Lived Religion and Shared Experience in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
This special issue of JMEMS takes up the classical debate on the “shared” and the “individual” through the concepts of “lived religion” on the one hand and “experience” on the other. The collection presents the state-of-the-art within the emerging field of history of “lived religion,” exemplifying its differences from earlier notions of “popular religion.” The articles take a step forward in the field of lived religion by approaching it from the …
An Imagined Experience? Dancing as Intercorporeality in the Fifteenth-Century Pastoralia of Vadstena Abbey
Proper gestures, signs, and rituals were important for orthopraxis in the Middle Ages; they affected the way religion was “lived out,” since the body was a site where religion was experienced. Analyzing fifteenth-century pastoralia from Vadstena Abbey in Sweden, this article argues that didactic textual representations of dancing reveal elements of lived religion. The imagined dancing in preachers’ exempla served as a warning against illicit beha…
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