Teemu Immonen
PhD
Italian and French history, Middle Ages; history of medieval art; history of memory; history of identity; church history; hagiography
I am a researcher in the project Strategies
of survival: The papal curia and ecclesiastical institutions of Rome in the
Great Western Schism (1378-1417), which is funded by the Academy of Finland.
I obtained my PhD in General History at the University of Helsinki in 2012. Previously,
I have worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the projects Propreau – Profiling Premodern Authors and Modus Vivendi – Religious Reform and the Laity in Late Medieval Europe
funded by the Academy of Finland. From January 2016 to July 2017, I worked as a
visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Studies in Medieval Civilization in
Poitiers, France.
I am broadly interested in medieval history, and I have a background in the
study of religious orders and the cult of saints. More recently, I have focused
on computer-assisted authorship attribution and medieval reform movements. My
long-term interests lay in the role of images in the building of medieval
identities and in the relationship between manuscript illumination and
monumental art.
I have lectured on a variety of topics ranging from the cultural history of
medieval monasteries to Augustine’s texts and from the concept of medieval
reform ideology to global urban history.
- Communicative Aspects of the Eremitical Life in the Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Italy (2013) Changing Minds. Communication and Influence in the High and Later Middle Ages Teemu Immonen
- A Saint as a Mediator between a Bishop and his Flock. The Cult of Saint Bononius in the Diocese of Vercelli under Bishop Arderic (1026/7–1044) (2008)
- Viator
- Il culto di San Domenico di Sora: Osservazioni sulle relazioni tra i testi e la società del tempo (2003)
- Benedictina: Rivista di Studi Benedettini
- The Cult of Saint Dominic of Sora. Hagiographical Texts and their Contexts (2003) Le scritture dai monasteri, Atti del II seminario internazionale di studio, ”I monasteri nell’Alto Medioevo”, Roma 9–10 Maggio 2002 Teemu Immonen
- Luostarilaitos keskiajalla (2002)
- Settentrione: Nuova Serie
- Näiden viimeisten vuosisatojen viimeisinä aikoina. Vanhaksi tullut maailma varhaiskeskiaikaisissa teksteissä (2002) Teemu Immonen
- Ruumis ja sielu varhaiskeskiajan luostarilaitoksessa (2002) Hetkiä historiassa Teemu Immonen