Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th-20th centuries)

Titel: Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th-20th centuries)
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Veröffentlicht: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter ; De Gruyter [Imprint], 2024
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (300 p.)
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9783111350622 ; 9783111351193 ; 9783111351223
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Zusammenfassung: This anthology is about the representations and uses of medieval saints, heroes, and heroic events as elements of popular, local, and national culture during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Baltic Sea region: Scandinavia, Finland, Baltic countries, Northern Germany and North-Western Russia. Authors examine the processes of how medieval saints and heroes have been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, used, and reflected during modernity.