Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
PhD
Kulttuurihistoria/ Cultural history sari.katajala-peltomaa@utu.fi +358 29 450 3748 +358 50 468 5580 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6355-3740(external) |
Areas of expertise
Cultural history, medieval Europe; lived religion, gender, family and childhood, pilgrimages and rituals, (interaction with) saints, hagiographic material, canonization processes
Cultural history, medieval Europe; lived religion, gender, family and childhood, pilgrimages and rituals, (interaction with) saints, hagiographic material, canonization processes
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.
Teaching
Masters' seminar for Cultural history
Publications
- A Companion to Medieval Canonization Processes: New Contexts, Perspectives, and Comparisons (2025) Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific journal’s special issue) - An Imagined Experience? Dancing as Intercorporeality in the Fifteenth-Century Pastoralia of Vadstena Abbey (2025)
- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Experiencing the Miraculous: Lived Religion in the Depositions (2025) A Companion to Medieval Canonization Processes Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Introduction: Canonization Processes in Context and Comparison (2025) A Companion to Medieval Canonization Processes New Contexts, Perspectives, and Comparisons Katajala-Peltomaa Sari
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Lived Religion and Shared Experience in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2025)
- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sensing the Devil – Creating the Sacred? Sensory Elements of Demonic Possession in Canonization Processes (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries) (2025) The Emotional Expression of Authority and Power in the Middle Ages Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - A Tool to Think With? Saint Birgitta as Cultural Heritage in Post-Reformation Finland (2024) Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th–20th centuries) Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Taivaallista armoa ja helvetin tulta/Den himmelska nåden och helvetets eldar (2023) Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari; Räsänen, Marika; Lahti, Sofia; Hägglund, Anna-Stina
(Other publication) - Conversion as an exemplary experience in the 14th century and today: Narrative-comparative approaches to the Exemplum (2022) Katajala-Peltomaa Sari, Mäkelä Maria
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Punition par le diable comme « expérience » en Suède au XIVe siècle (2022) Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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