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Medievalism in Finland and Russia : twentieth- and twenty-first century aspects

Reima Välimäki (Editor)
Print Book, English, 2022
Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, UK, 2022
xxii, 238 pages : illustration, map ; 25 cm.
9781350232884, 1350232882
1263339120
List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsPreface: Medievalism in Finland and Russia and why it mattersIntroduction: Who owns the Middle Ages? Metamedievalism and structural exclusion Andrew B. R Elliott (University of Lincoln, UK)1. Middle Ages on the 'Map of the Memory' of Russian Society Evgenii Rostovtsev (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)2. ‘A thousand years of history’: References to the past in the addresses to the Federal Assembly by the president of Russia, 2000-19 Kati Parppei (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)3. Mapping the pseudohistorical knowledge space in the Russian World Wide Web Mila Oiva and Anna Ristilä (University of Turku, Finland)4. A lens most obscured: Western perceptions of contemporary Russian medievalisms Evan Wallace (University of Central Florida, USA)5. Memorializing the Finnish medieval past Sirpa Aalto & Timo Ylimaunu (University of Oulu, Finland)6. The Missing Finnish Runestones Kendra Wilson (University of Turku, Finland)7. Masculine online medievalism in twenty-first-century Finland Heta Aali (University of Turku, Finland)8. Particularizing the Universal: Medievalist Constructions of Cultural and Religious Difference in the Crusader Kings II Jere Kyyrö (University of Turku, Finland)AppendicesNotesBibliography Index