Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
PhD
Kulttuurihistoria/ Cultural history sari.katajala-peltomaa@utu.fi +358 29 450 3748 +358 50 468 5580 |
Cultural history, medieval Europe; lived religion, gender, family and childhood, pilgrimages and rituals, (interaction with) saints, hagiographic material, canonization processes
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.
Masters' seminar for Cultural history
- A Companion to Medieval Canonization Processes: New Contexts, Perspectives, and Comparisons (2025) Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari
- An Imagined Experience? Dancing as Intercorporeality in the Fifteenth-Century Pastoralia of Vadstena Abbey (2025)
- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
- Experiencing the Miraculous: Lived Religion in the Depositions (2025) A Companion to Medieval Canonization Processes Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari
- Introduction: Canonization Processes in Context and Comparison (2025) A Companion to Medieval Canonization Processes New Contexts, Perspectives, and Comparisons Katajala-Peltomaa Sari
- Lived Religion and Shared Experience in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2025)
- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
- 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
- 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
- Taivaallista armoa ja helvetin tulta/Den himmelska nåden och helvetets eldar (2023) Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari; Räsänen, Marika; Lahti, Sofia; Hägglund, Anna-Stina
- Conversion as an exemplary experience in the 14th century and today: Narrative-comparative approaches to the Exemplum (2022) Katajala-Peltomaa Sari, Mäkelä Maria
- Punition par le diable comme « expérience » en Suède au XIVe siècle (2022) Sari Katajala-Peltomaa