Marika Räsänen
PhD
marras@utu.fi +358 29 450 2232 +358 50 566 9298 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku Office: 306 Vastaanotto torstaisin klo 10-11 |
Relics, hagiography, material culture, church history, religious orders, liturgy, Great Western Schism, religious reforms, late Middle Ages and the sixteenth century, Roman topography, Italian history and culture
I defended my doctoral thesis in the Department of Cultural History at the University of Turku in 2013. The thesis focused on the desires and demands addressed to Thomas Aquinas’s relics in southern Italy in the Late Middle Ages. I collected source material for the thesis when I worked at the Finnish Institute in Rome for four years as an assistente scientifico(2005–2009). After returning to Finland, I first worked as a researcher at the Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies for several years, and then in the project Modus vivendi. Religious reform and laity in late medieval Europefunded by the Academy of Finland before and after my defence (PI Marjo Kaartinen). In recent years, I have had great opportunities to work abroad: short periods at the Department of Medieval History in the University of Wuppertal (Germany) in 2014 and at the Monash University in Melbourne as a visiting fellow of the ARC Centre of Excellencefor the History of Emotions (Europe 1100–1800). In the beginning of the year 2016, I moved with my family to Poitiers, France, where I conducted my research at the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (CESCM) until summer 2017. I was appointed as a postdoctoral researcher of the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (University of Turku) in 2017, and the same year, I was conferred the title of docent. I have also been the vice director of Centre for the Study of Christian Cultures (CSCC) and a board member of Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (TUCEMEMS) since 2017.
My research interests include cults of relics, the Great Western Schism, Dominican liturgy, hagiography, and the devotional life of laity in the Late Middle Ages and in the beginning of the Early Modern Period. My recent or current projects include: multidisciplinary and artistic project Touching, Tasting, Hearing, Seeing and Smelling: Sensory Experiences in the Feasts of St Thomas Aquinas (funded by the KONE Foundation in 2015-2018; we organized experimental chanting workshops and concerts, as well as published research monograph, The Medieval Offices of Saint Thomas Aquinas), project of editing medieval texts concerning the translation of Thomas Aquinas's relics in Toulouse (funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, 2019-2021) and Dominicans in the Great Western Schism (as a part of the project Strategies of survival: The papal curia and ecclesiastical institutions of Rome in the Great Western Schism, led by Kirsi Salonen and funded by the Academy of Finland, 2019-2023).
I am University Teacher of Cultural history. I mainly give courses from BA to MA level, but I also give lectures in optional courses. Topics that I am especially glad to give lectures on include the devotional life of laity in the Late Middle Ages, topography of the city of Rome (from the period of Etruscan kings to Risorgimento), and material culture (especially considering relics).
- Kirja-arvio:Pantteria jäljittämässä. Alighieri, Dante: Kansankielestä - De vulgari eloquentia [De vulgari eloquentia]. ISBN 978-952-5710-88-5. 2021. (2022)
- Agricolan kirja-arvostelut
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Jarl Gallén keskiajan tutkijana (2021)
- Mirator
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Kirjoittamista yhdessä mutta etänä (2021)
- Hiiskuttua: Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan verkkolehti
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Kulttuurihistorioitsija Liisa Lagerstamia tapaamassa (2021)
- Kulttuurihistoria nyt!
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Levd religion i det medeltida Finland (2021)
- Historisk Tidskrift För Finland
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - Remembering Thomas Aquinas and the Saints of Dominican Renewal. Tommaso of Siena and the Cividale Legendary (2021) Reneissance Religions. Modes and Meanings in History Mews Constant J., Räsänen Marika
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Rituals and Spaces of Devotion in Cistercian Everyday Religion (2021) A Companion to Medieval Miracle Collections Räsänen Marika
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Taidelähtöisyys humanististieteellisessä opetuksessa (2021) Mäki Maija, Räsänen Marika
(Other (O2)) - The Cult of Thomas Aquinas’s Relics in the Dawn of the Dominican Reform and the Great Western Schism (2021) The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages Räsänen Marika
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Trump: keskiaikainen marttyyri? (2021)
- Kulttuurihistoria nyt!
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Books of golden rays and ripped folios. Thomas Aquinas’s book-relics in religious reforms (2020) Golden leaves, burned books Marika Räsänen
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Keskiaikainen liturgia elettynä ja koettuna (2020)
- Suomen Kirkkohistoriallisen Seuran Vuosikirja
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Kirja-arvio: Jussi Välimaa: Opinteillä oppineita. Suomalainen korkeakoulutus keskiajalta 2000-luvulle. 2018. ISBN
978-952-5934-96-0. (2020)- Mirator
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Kirja-arvostelu: Saagojen jäljillä. Aalto, Sirpa, Kanerva, Kirsi: Johdatus saagakirjallisuuteen. Pohjois-Suomen Historiallinen Yhdistys, Societas Historica Finlandiae Septentrionalis, 2019. ISBN 978-952-9888-64-1. (2020)
- Agricolan kirja-arvostelut
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - The Cult of St Thomas Aquinas, Reform and the Laity in Late Medieval Italy (2020) Modus Vivendi. Religious Reform and the Laity in Late Medieval Europe Marika Räsänen
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Approaching Religion: Christianity and politics (2019) Anna Haapalainen, Minna Opas, Marika Räsänen
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - Christianity and politics (2019)
- Approaching Religion
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Ecce novus: Saint Thomas Aquinas and Dominican Identity at the End of the Fourteenth Century (2019)
- Acta Ad Archaeologiam et Artium Historiam Pertinentia
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Johdannoksi: huumorilla höystettyä historiatietoa (2019)
- Kritiikki
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Notre Dame – ihmisyyden elävä ja alati muuttuva symboli (2019)
- Turun Sanomat
(Popularised article or blog post (E1))