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Tapio
Salminen
Docent, Faculty of Humanities
PhD
Historian and medievalist specialized in medieval, pre-industrial and longue durée history of the Baltic Sea area.

Areas of expertise

Medieval History
Preindustrial History
Europe
Baltic Sea Area
Communication
Management of Information
Traffic
History of Roads
Transport
Paper History.

Research

My themes of interest include:

  • Textualisation of administration and communication from 13th to late 15th Century
  • Management of information and textual agencies in medieval towns and lay administration
  • Forms and uses of medieval written communication and textual practices
  • Medieval paper trade and paper missives in the Baltic Rim
  • Every-day multilinguality and use of languages
  • Public roads and travelling in the Baltic Sea area and Northern Europe from prehistory to present
  • Road as a space
  • Landscapes of power
  • Medieval piracy in the Baltic Sea
  • Human activity and the relationship between local society and environment in "longue durée"
  • Local and translocal in the every-day communication, travelling and networking of people, groups and layers of society and in the pre-industrial and industrial era
  • High medieval legatine representation
  • History of Tallinn, Estonia and medieval Livonia

Publications

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