Tapio Salminen
 PhD


tapio.salminen@utu.fi



Contact: tapio.t.salminen@tuni.fi

ORCID identifierhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4116-2260

For my publications see my page in Academia.edu.




Areas of expertise
Medieval History; Preindustrial History; Europe; Baltic Sea Area; Communication; Management of Information; Traffic; History of Roads; Transport; Paper History.

Research

My themes of interest include:

  • Textualisation of administration and communication from 13th to late 15th Century
  • Management of information and textual agencies in medieval towns and lay administration
  • Forms and uses of medieval written communication and textual practices
  • Medieval paper trade and paper missives in the Baltic Rim
  • Every-day multilinguality and use of languages
  • Public roads and travelling in the Baltic Sea area and Northern Europe from prehistory to present
  • Road as a space
  • Landscapes of power
  • Medieval piracy in the Baltic Sea
  • Human activity and the relationship between local society and environment in "longue durée"
  • Local and translocal in the every-day communication, travelling and networking of people, groups and layers of society and in the pre-industrial and industrial era
  • High medieval legatine representation
  • History of Tallinn, Estonia and medieval Livonia


Publications


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