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Sari
Katajala-Peltomaa
Professor, History and Archaelogy
PhD

Contact

+358 29 450 3748
+358 50 468 5580

Areas of expertise

Medieval Europe
lived religion, gender, family and childhood, pilgrimages and rituals, (interaction with) saints, hagiographic material, canonization processes

Teaching

Masters' seminar for Cultural history

Research

My research focuses on late medieval religion on a comparative European level. I have focused mainly on lay religiosity and lived religion within the context of hagiographic sources and especially canonization processes. I have studied rituals like pilgrimages and most recently cases of demonic possession, which is also linked to the ideas of mental disorder. Other areas of interest are gender, family and childhood.  

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