Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
About the Book Series
The series Crossing Boundaries publishes works placed at the intersection of disciplinary boundaries to introduce fresh connections between established fields of study. The series especially welcomes research combining or juxtaposing different kinds of primary sources and new methodological solutions to deal with problems presented by them. Encouraged themes and approaches include, but are not limited to, identity formation in medieval/early modern communities and the analysis of texts and other cultural products as a communicative process comprising shared symbols and meanings.
Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature
1st Edition
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By Liisa Steinby, Aino Mäkikalli
January 09, 2026
This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narrative and eighteenth-century literature from across Europe. At issue is the question of whether the theoretical concepts underpinning narratology are, despite their appearance of ahistorical generality, ...
Addressing Injustice in the Medieval Body Politic
1st Edition
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By Constant Jan Mews, Kathleen Neal
December 01, 2025
Justice and injustice were subjects of ongoing debate in medieval Europe. Received classical and biblical models both influenced how these qualities of moral and political life were perceived, discussed and acted upon. Important among these influences was the anonymous seventh-century Irish text, ...
Church and Belief in the Middle Ages: Popes, Saints, and Crusaders
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By Kirsi Salonen, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
December 01, 2025
The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back up the authority of popes, and even occasionally...
Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region: Austmarr as a Northern mare nostrum, ca. 500-1500 AD
1st Edition
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By Maths Bertell, Kendra Willson
December 01, 2025
Since prehistoric times, the Baltic Sea has functioned as a northern mare nostrum — a crucial nexus that has shaped the languages, folklore, religions, literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, Sámi, Baltic, and Slavic peoples. This anthology explores the networks among those ...
Framing Premodern Desires: Sexual Ideas, Attitudes, and Practices in Europe
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By Satu Lidman, Tom Linkinen, Meri Heinonen, Marjo Kaartinen
December 01, 2025
The way that we have perceived, described, and understood sexual desire has changed dramatically over time and across cultures. This collection brings together a group of experts from a variety of disciplines to explore the history of sexual desires and the transformation of sexual ideas, attitudes...
Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries
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By Wojtek Jezierski, Lars Hermanson
December 01, 2025
Prior to the high Middle Ages, the Baltic Rim was largely terra incognita-but by the late Middle Ages, it was home to diverse small and large communities. But the Baltic Rim was not simply the place those people lived-it was also an imagined space through which they defined themselves and their ...
Languages in the Lutheran Reformation: Textual Networks and the Spread of Ideas
1st Edition
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By Mikko Kauko, Miika Norro, Kirsi-Maria Nummila, Tanja Toropainen, Tuomo Fonsén
December 01, 2025
This collection of essays charts the influence of the Lutheran Reformation on various (northern) European languages and texts written in them. The central themes of Languages in the Lutheran Reformation: Textual Networks and the Spread of Ideas are: how the ideas related to Lutheranism were adapted...
Order, Materiality, and Urban Space in the Early Modern Kingdom of Sweden
1st Edition
By Riitta Laitinen
December 01, 2025
Our corporeality and immersion in the material world make us inherently spatial beings, and the fact that we all share everyday experiences in the global physical environment means that community is also spatial by nature. This book explores the relationship between the seventeenth-century ...
Popular Romance in Iceland: The Women, Worldviews, and Manuscript Witnesses of Nítída saga
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By Sheryl McDonald Werronen
December 01, 2025
A late medieval Icelandic romance about the 'maiden-king' of France, Nítída saga generated interest in its day and grew in popularity in post-Reformation Iceland, yet until now it has not received the comprehensive scholarly analysis that it much deserves. Analysing this saga from a variety of ...
Re-forming Texts, Music, and Church Art in the Early Modern North
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By Tuomas Lehtonen, Linda Kaljundi
December 01, 2025
Our historical understanding of the Reformation in northern Europe has tended to privilege the idea of disruption and innovation over continuity - yet even the most powerful reformation movements drew on and exchanged ideas with earlier cultural and religious practices. This volume attempts to ...
Same-sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture
1st Edition
By Tom Linkinen
December 01, 2025
This volume investigates the state of same-sex relations in later medieval England, drawing on a remarkably rich array of primary sources from the period that include legal documents, artworks, theological treatises, and poetry. Tom Linkinen uses those sources to build a framework of medieval ...
The Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities
1st Edition
By Rose-Marie Peake
December 01, 2025
The Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities studies the value system of the French Catholic community the Filles de la Charité, or the Daughters of Charity, in the first half of the seventeenth century. An analysis of the activities aimed at edifying morality in ...