Kirsi Salonen
Professor, PhD, LLD
kirsi.l.salonen@utu.fi +358 29 450 3379 +358 50 331 2834 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku : 111 Vastaanotto sopimuksen mukaan |
Medieval history; ecclesiastical history; history of law; criminality
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.
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).
I supervise masteral students in European and World History (both masteral seminars and gradu-afternoons).
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- Suomea koskevat keskiaikaiset asiakirjat kaikkien saataville (2015)
- Akti
- Autuaan piispa Hemmingin juhla Turun tuomiokirkossa 500 vuotta sitten (2014)
- Turun Sanomat
- Brigide Schwarz. Kurienuniversität und stadtrömische Universität von ca. 1300 bis 1471. (2014)
- Renaissance Quarterly
- "Ex magno devotionis fervore..." Danish Cistercians and the Apostolic Penitentiary in the Later Middle Ages (2014) Monastic Culture. The Long Thirteenth Century Kirsi Salonen
- How Nordic are the Nordic Medieval Laws? - Ten years after – Proceedings of the Tenth Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Legal History 2013 (2014) Per Andersen, Kirsi Salonen, Helle I.M. Sigh, Helle Vogt
- Impediments and illegal marriages. Marriage petitions to the Apostolic Penitentiary during the pontificate of Pius II (1458-1464) (2014)
- Quaderni storici
- Kirkko ja uskonto kansakunnan selkärankana (2014) Kansallisten instituutioiden muotoutuminen. Suomalainen historiakuva Oma Maa -kirjasarjassa 1900-1960 Jari Eilola, Kirsi Salonen
- Ludwig Schmugge. Marriage on Trial: Late Medieval German Couples at the Papal Court, trans. Atria A. Larson. (2014)
- Speculum
- Pyhiinvaeltajia, pahantekijöitä ja pappeja - suomalaiset Rooman-matkaajat myöhäiskeskiajalla (2014) Suomalaisten pyhiinvaellukset keskiajalla - kun maailma aukeni Kirsi Salonen
- Ragvaldus Gici ja kohtalokas stipula - kappale Turun keskiaikaisen katedraalikoulun elämää (2014) Kleion pauloissa Harjula Janne, Salonen Kirsi
- Scandinavians by the Papal Well of Grace and Justice at the Eve of Reformation (2014) How Nordic are the Nordic Medieval Laws? Ten Years After. Proceedings of the tenth Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Leval History 2013 Kirsi Salonen
- Steinar Imsen (ed.) 'Ecclesia Nidrosiensi' and 'Norges veldi'. The role of the Church in making of Norwegian domination in the Norse World (2014)
- Historisk Tidsskrift
- Suomen piispanistuimen siirto Nousiaisista Turkuun - koska se tapahtuikaan? (2014)
- Arkeologia NYT! Arkeologi NU!
- Armon lähteillä: editio englantilaisista ja walesilaisista penitentiariaattiasiakirjoista – Supplications from England and Wales in the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary 1410-1503. Volume I: 1410-1464. Ed. by Peter D. Clarke & Patrick N. R. Zutshi (2013)
- Suomen kirkkohistoriallisen seuran vuosikirja
- Cultural Encounters during the Crusades (2013) Kurt Villads Jensen, Kirsi Salonen, Helle Vogt
- Enkelien ja demonien varjossa Vatikaanin Salaisessa Arkistossa (2013)
- Hiiskuttua: Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan verkkolehti
- Entering a Clerical Career at the Roman Curia, 1458-1471 (2013) Kirsi Salonen, Jussi Hanska
- Forbidden Marital Strategies: Papal Marriage Dispensations for Scandinavian Couples in the Later Middle Ages (2013) Medieval Christianity in the North Salonen Kirsi
- Illegal Business with Non-Christians and Pilgrims to the Holy Sepulchre. The Apostolic Penitentiary and the Contacts of Christians with Non-Christians during the Pontificate of Pope Pius II (1458-1464) (2013) Changing Minds. Communication and Influence in the High and Later Middle Ages Salonen Kirsi
- 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
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