Lived Religion and the Long Reformation in Northern Europe c. 1300-1700

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'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. Preface vii List of Contributors viii Religion as Experience / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Raisa Maria Toivo 1 Section 1. Lived Religion in Daily Life 1. Devotional Strategies in Everyday Life: Laity’s Interaction with Saints in the North in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa 21 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 46 3. Protestantism, Modernity and the Power of Penetration: Saints and Sacrifice in 17th Century Lutheran Finland / Raisa Maria Toivo 75 4. Appeal and Survival of Anabaptism in Early Modern Germany / Päivi Räisänen-Schröder 104 Section 2. Religious Economics: Charity and Community 5. Poverty and Preaching between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The Case of Ericus Erici, Bishop of Turku / Jussi Hanska 131 6. Urban Funeral Practices in the Baltic Sea Region / Maija Ojala 159 7. Religiosity and Readiness for the Reformation among Late Medieval Burghers in Stockholm, c. 1420–1570 / Marko Lamberg 178 Section 3. Religion, Politics and Contested Identities 8. Mikael Agricola: Father of the Finnish Language, Builder of the Swedish State / Jason Lavery 207 9. Reformation at the Election Field. Religious Politics in the Polish-Lithuanian Royal Elections, 1573–1576 / Miia Ijäs 230 10. Resistance to the Reformation in 16th-Century Finland / Kaarlo Arffman 255 References 275 Index 321