Areas of expertise
Biography
I am a researcher in the project Strategies of survival: The papal curia and ecclesiastical institutions of Rome in the Great Western Schism (1378-1417), which is funded by the Academy of Finland. I obtained my PhD in General History at the University of Helsinki in 2012. Previously, I have worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the projects Propreau – Profiling Premodern Authors and Modus Vivendi – Religious Reform and the Laity in Late Medieval Europe funded by the Academy of Finland. From January 2016 to July 2017, I worked as a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Studies in Medieval Civilization in Poitiers, France.
Teaching
I have lectured on a variety of topics ranging from the cultural history of medieval monasteries to Augustine’s texts and from the concept of medieval reform ideology to global urban history.
Research
I am broadly interested in medieval history, and I have a background in the study of religious orders and the cult of saints. More recently, I have focused on computer-assisted authorship attribution and medieval reform movements. My long-term interests lay in the role of images in the building of medieval identities and in the relationship between manuscript illumination and monumental art.