Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. A Note on Terms and Names 17
4. Acknowledgments 19
5. Introduction 21
6. Part I. Contextualizations and Thematizations
7. 1. Popular Belief and the Disruption of Religious Practices in Reformation Sweden 43
8. 2. Trade and the Known World 69
9. 3. Diglossia, Authority and Tradition 97
10. Part II. Music and Religious Performances
11. 4. Changes in the Poetics of Song during the Finnish Reformation 125
12. 5. Vernacular Gregorian Chant and Lutheran Hymn-singing in Reformation-era Finland 157
13. 6. Pious Hymns and Devil’s Music 179
14. 7. The Emergence of Hymns at the Crossroads of Folk and Christian Culture 217
15. Part III. Church Art and Architecture
16. 8. Reform and Pragmatism 253
17. 9. Early Lutheran Networks and Changes in the Furnishings of the Finnish Lutheran Parish Church 287
18. 10. Continuity and Change 311
19. Part IV. The ‘Other’ and the Afterlife
20. 11. Pagans into Peasants 357
21. 12. Est vera India septemtrio 393
22. 13. Transformations of Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Finnish Vernacular Poetry and Rituals 421
23. 14. Agricola’s List (1551) and the Formation of the Estonian Pantheon 449
24. Contributors 475
25. Index 479