Kirsi
Salonen
Degree Programme in Digital Culture, Landscape and Cultural Heritage
Professor, PhD, LLD
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Areas of expertise
Medieval history
ecclesiastical history
history of law
criminality
Biography
I graduated in general history in 1997, defended my PhD in 2001 and was granted the tile of Docent in 2004, all at the University of Tampere, Finland. In 2012 I finished my doctoral degree in law, and I was appointed as Associated professor (tenure track) at the School of History, Culture and Arts Studies at the University of Turku, and in 2017 my appointment was confirmed as full professor in European and World History in the University of Turku. Since 2021 autumn, I work only part time due to appointment at the University of Bergen.
Teaching
I supervise masteral students in European and World History (both masteral seminars and gradu-afternoons).
Research
My main research interest concern medieval papacy and ecclesiastical history but also sins, crimes, law and everyday life. Therefore, I have spent over a decade in the Vatican Secret Archives. I have published various books and articles for example about the "papal tribunal of conscience" (the Apostolic Penitentiary) and the highest ecclesiastical tribunal, the Sacra Romana Rota. In addition to institutional history, the papal source material has offered interesting glimpses of everyday life such as the story of the broken thumb of the provost of Turku, Paulus Scheel, or of the illegitimate children of Turku canons. At the moment I am leading a 4-year research project financed by the Academy of Finland, "Strategies of survival: The papal curia and ecclesiastical institutions of
Rome in the Great Western Schism (1378-1417)” (2019-2023).
In addition to the Middle Ages, I have also been studying the inter-war period, more precisely, the papal diplomacy during the pontificates of Benedict XV and Pius IX. My main figure here has been Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII), who was papal nuncius in Germany in 1917-29. This interest was part of a research project financed by the Academy of Finland, Religion, Politics, and Nationalism: The Vatican's Foreign Policy and Nationalistic Tensions in Inter-War Europe (2010-2013).
Rome in the Great Western Schism (1378-1417)” (2019-2023).
In addition to the Middle Ages, I have also been studying the inter-war period, more precisely, the papal diplomacy during the pontificates of Benedict XV and Pius IX. My main figure here has been Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII), who was papal nuncius in Germany in 1917-29. This interest was part of a research project financed by the Academy of Finland, Religion, Politics, and Nationalism: The Vatican's Foreign Policy and Nationalistic Tensions in Inter-War Europe (2010-2013).
Publications
Pyhiinvaeltajia, pahantekijöitä ja pappeja - suomalaiset Rooman-matkaajat myöhäiskeskiajalla (2014)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))Steinar Imsen (ed.) 'Ecclesia Nidrosiensi' and 'Norges veldi'. The role of the Church in making of Norwegian domination in the Norse World (2014)
Historisk Tidsskrift
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
Ludwig Schmugge. Marriage on Trial: Late Medieval German Couples at the Papal Court, trans. Atria A. Larson. (2014)
Speculum
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
Unlicenced Pilgrims and Illegal Trade. – Late Medieval Cultural Encounters in the Mediterranean according to the Archives of the Apostolic Penitentiary (2013)
Late Medieval Cultural Encounters in the Mediterranean according to the Archives of the Apostolic Penitentiary
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))
Cultural Encounters during the Crusades (2013)
(Toimitustyö tieteelliselle lehdelle, kokoomateokselle tai konferenssijulkaisulle (C2))Forbidden Marital Strategies: Papal Marriage Dispensations for Scandinavian Couples in the Later Middle Ages (2013)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))Illegal Business with Non-Christians and Pilgrims to the Holy Sepulchre. The Apostolic Penitentiary and the Contacts of Christians with Non-Christians during the Pontificate of Pope Pius II (1458-1464) (2013)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))Yliopistolaitos Roomassa ja Rooman kuuriassa keskiajalla – Brigide Schwarz, Kurienuniversität und stadtrömische Universität von ca. 1300 bis 1471 (2013)
Brigide Schwarz, Kurienuniversität und stadtrömische Universität von ca. 1300 bis 1471
Suomen Kirkkohistoriallisen Seuran Vuosikirja
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
Armon lähteillä: editio englantilaisista ja walesilaisista penitentiariaattiasiakirjoista – Supplications from England and Wales in the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary 1410-1503. Volume I: 1410-1464. Ed. by Peter D. Clarke & Patrick N. R. Zutshi (2013)
Supplications from England and Wales in the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary 1410-1503. Volume I: 1410-1464. Ed. by Peter D. Clarke & Patrick N. R. Zutshi
Suomen Kirkkohistoriallisen Seuran Vuosikirja
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))