Lived religion and the long Reformation in northern Europe c. 1300-1700 / / edited by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Raisa Maria Toivo.

• Superior document: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume 206
• TeilnehmendeR: Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari,; Toivo, Raisa Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; Volume 206.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 pages).

Lived Religion and the Long Reformation in Northern Europe puts Reformation in a daily life context using lived religion as a conceptual and methodological tool: exploring how people "lived out" their religion in their mundane toils and how religion created a performative space for them. This collection reinvestigates the character of the Reformation in an area that later became the heartlands of Lutheranism. The way people lived their religion was intricately linked with questions of the value of individual experience, communal cohesion and interaction. During the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era religious certainty was replaced by the experience of doubt and hesitation. Negotiations on and between various social levels manifest the needs, aspirations and resistance behind the religious change. Contributors include: Kaarlo Arffman, Jussi Hanska, Miia Ijäs, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Jenni Kuuliala, Marko Lamberg, Jason Lavery, Maija Ojala, Päivi Räisänen-Schröder, Raisa Maria Toivo

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Religion as Experience / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Raisa Maria Toivo -- 1 Devotional Strategies in Everyday Life: Laity’s Interaction with Saints in the North in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa -- 2 Disability and Religious Practices in Late Medieval Prussia: Infirmity and the Miraculous in the Canonization Process of St. Dorothea of Montau (1404–1406) / Jenni Kuuliala -- 3 Protestantism, Modernity and the Power of Penetration: Saints and Sacrifice in 17th Century Lutheran Finland / Raisa Maria Toivo -- 4 Appeal and Survival of Anabaptism in Early Modern Germany / Päivi Räisänen-Schröder -- 5 Poverty and Preaching between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The Case of Ericus Erici, Bishop of Turku / Jussi Hanska -- 6 Urban Funeral Practices in the Baltic Sea Region / Maija Ojala -- 7 Religiosity and Readiness for the Reformation among Late Medieval Burghers in Stockholm, c. 1420–1570 / Marko Lamberg -- 8 Mikael Agricola: Father of the Finnish Language, Builder of the Swedish State / Jason Lavery -- 9 Reformation at the Election Field. Religious Politics in the Polish-Lithuanian Royal Elections, 1573–1576 / Miia Ijäs -- 10 Resistance to the Reformation in 16th-Century Finland / Kaarlo Arffman -- References -- Index.