Tapio Salminen
PhD
tapio.salminen@utu.fi Contact: tapio.t.salminen@tuni.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4116-2260 |
Areas of expertise
Medieval History; Preindustrial History; Europe; Baltic Sea Area; Communication; Management of Information; Traffic; History of Roads; Transport; Paper History.
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
- Keskiaikainen papin sinettileimasin Siuntiosta (2021)
- Suomen Kirkkohistoriallisen Seuran Vuosikirja
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Lisänäkökohtia Diplomatarium Fennicum -tutkimustietokantahankkeen toteutukseen (2020)
- Historiallinen Aikakauskirja
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1))