Sari
Katajala-Peltomaa
Professor, History and Archaelogy
PhD
Areas of expertise
Medieval Europe
lived religion, gender, family and childhood, pilgrimages and rituals, (interaction with) saints, hagiographic material, canonization processes
Teaching
Masters' seminar for Cultural history
Research
My research focuses on late medieval religion on a comparative European level. I have focused mainly on lay religiosity and lived religion within the context of hagiographic sources and especially canonization processes. I have studied rituals like pilgrimages and most recently cases of demonic possession, which is also linked to the ideas of mental disorder. Other areas of interest are gender, family and childhood.