Kirsi Salonen
Professor, PhD, LLD
kirsi.l.salonen@utu.fi +358 29 450 3379 +358 50 331 2834 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku Office: 111 Vastaanotto sopimuksen mukaan ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3877-2228 |
Areas of expertise
Medieval history; ecclesiastical history; history of law; criminality
Medieval history; ecclesiastical history; history of law; criminality
Biography
I graduated in general history in 1997, defended my PhD in 2001 and was granted the tile of Docent in 2004, all at the University of Tampere, Finland. In 2012 I finished my doctoral degree in law, and I was appointed as Associated professor (tenure track) at the School of History, Culture and Arts Studies at the University of Turku, and in 2017 my appointment was confirmed as full professor in European and World History in the University of Turku. Since 2021 autumn, I work only part time due to appointment at the University of Bergen.
Research
My main research interest concern medieval papacy and ecclesiastical history but also sins, crimes, law and everyday life. Therefore, I have spent over a decade in the Vatican Secret Archives. I have published various books and articles for example about the "papal tribunal of conscience" (the Apostolic Penitentiary) and the highest ecclesiastical tribunal, the Sacra Romana Rota. In addition to institutional history, the papal source material has offered interesting glimpses of everyday life such as the story of the broken thumb of the provost of Turku, Paulus Scheel, or of the illegitimate children of Turku canons. At the moment I am leading a 4-year research project financed by the Academy of Finland, "Strategies of survival: The papal curia and ecclesiastical institutions of
Rome in the Great Western Schism (1378-1417)” (2019-2023).
Rome in the Great Western Schism (1378-1417)” (2019-2023).
In addition to the Middle Ages, I have also been studying the inter-war period, more precisely, the papal diplomacy during the pontificates of Benedict XV and Pius IX. My main figure here has been Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII), who was papal nuncius in Germany in 1917-29. This interest was part of a research project financed by the Academy of Finland, Religion, Politics, and Nationalism: The Vatican's Foreign Policy and Nationalistic Tensions in Inter-War Europe (2010-2013).
Teaching
I supervise masteral students in European and World History (both masteral seminars and gradu-afternoons).
Publications 
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- Law and Disputing in the Middle Ages – Proceedings of the Ninth Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Legal History 2012 (2013) Per Andersen, Kirsi Salonen, Helle Møller Sigh, Helle Vogt
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Medieval Christianity in the North – New Studies (2013) Kirsi Salonen, Kurt Villads Jensen, Torstein Jørgensen
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Unlicenced Pilgrims and Illegal Trade. – Late Medieval Cultural Encounters in the Mediterranean according to the Archives of the Apostolic Penitentiary (2013) Cultural Encounters during the Crusades Salonen Kirsi
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Yliopistolaitos Roomassa ja Rooman kuuriassa keskiajalla – Brigide Schwarz, Kurienuniversität und stadtrömische Universität von ca. 1300 bis 1471 (2013)
- Suomen kirkkohistoriallisen seuran vuosikirja
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Die kritische Online-Edition der Nuntiaturberichte Eugenio Pacellis : Präsentation des Projektes (2012) Eugenio Pacelli als Nuntius in Deutschland : Forschungsperspektiven und Ansätze zu einem internationalen Vergleich Sasha Hinkel, Jörg Hörnschemeyer, Maria Pia Lorenz-Filograno, Elisabeth-Marie Richter, Barbara Schüler, Hubert Wolf, Kirsi Salonen
(B3 Non-refereed article in a conference publication) - Från Nådens dal til Nådens källa (2012) Heliga Birgitta : Europas Skyddshelgon. Birgitta och Finland Kirsi Salonen
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Kirkollisen oikeudenkäytön päälähteillä : Sacra Romana Rotan toiminta ja sen oikeudellinen tausta myhöhäiskeskiajalla ja uuden ajan alun taitteessa (2012)
- Ennen ja Nyt : Historian Tietosanomat
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Kirkollisen oikeuden päälähteillä – Sacra Romana Rotan toiminta ja sen oikeudellinen tausta myöhäiskeskiajalla ja uuden ajan alun taitteessa (2012)
- Suomen Kirkkohistoriallisen Seuran Toimituksia
(C1 Refereed scientific book) - L’attività della Penitenzieria Apostolica durante il Pontificato di Pio II (1458-1464) (2012) La Penitenzieria Apostolic e il suo archivio Kirsi Salonen
(B3 Non-refereed article in a conference publication) - Law and Marriage in Medieval and Early Modern Times : Proceedings of the Eighth Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Legal History 2011 (2012) Per Andersen, Helle Møller Sigh, Helle Vogt, Kirsi Salonen
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Re-defining Marital Impediments - Tolerating Dubious Marriages through a Special Declaration from the Apostolic Penitentiary in the Late Middle Ages (2012) Law and Marriage in medieval and Early Modern Times. Proceedings of the eighth Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Legal History 2011 Kirsi Salonen
(B3 Non-refereed article in a conference publication) - The Vatican Archives and the Nordic countries (2012) Friedensnobelpreis und historische Grundlagenforschung : Ludwig Quidde und die Erschliessung der kurialen Registerüberlieferung Kirsi Salonen
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Turun tuomiokapitulissa ja Rooman kuuriassa – Petrus Benedictin virkakiista 1400-luvun lopulla (2012)
- Historia Mirabilis
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Virkojenmetsästäjä Henricus Meyer ja Mynämäen seurakunta : Vatikaanin Salainen Arkisto ja uudet asiakirjalöydöt (2012) Kirsi Salonen
(E1 Popularised article) - Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages: Arguments about Marriage in Five Courts (2010)
- Histoire Sociale / Social History
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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