“The Holy Ascetics of Karelia”: The Integration of Russian Medieval Saintly Cults into Finnish Orthodox Collective Memory, 1896–1944

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Contributors IX
5. Doing Memory of Medieval Saints and Heroes in the Baltic Sea Region 1
6. Popular Culture
7. A Tool to Think With? Saint Birgitta as Cultural Heritage in Post-Reformation Finland 23
8. Mothers of the Land: Baltic German and Estonian Personifications from the Virgin Mary to the Epic Linda 43
9. From Bishop-Killer to Latvian National Hero: Imanta’s Transformations from the Middle Ages to Nation-Building 81
10. Local
11. Saints and Urban Medievalism: The Case of Saint Knud Rex in Modern-Day Odense 113
12. The Memorialization of Natural Loci and the Veneration of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga in Northwestern Russia (19th–Early 21st Centuries) 145
13. National
14. State, Race, and Colonization: Tyrgils Knutsson’s Controversial Monuments in 19th-Century Finland 161
15. St Erik, Reformation, and Enlightenment: Early Modern History Writing on a Swedish Catholic Patron of the Realm 189
16. Shared Heritage
17. The Story of Sigtuna’s Destruction (1187) and Estonian Nationalism, 1868–1940 207
18. The Bold/Bald Count: Tracing the 1½ Memories of Gerhard III of Holsatia 225
19. “The Holy Ascetics of Karelia”: The Integration of Russian Medieval Saintly Cults into Finnish Orthodox Collective Memory, 1896–1944 257
20. Concluding Remarks
21. Remaking Saints and Heroes 283
22. Index 295