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Tampere University
miikka.tamminen [at] tuni.fi (miikka[dot]tamminen[at]tuni[dot]fi)

About me

PhD, Associate Professor (title of Docent) in Medieval Cultural History

Fields of expertise

High Middle Ages, Crusades, Crusade Propaganda, Sermons, Medieval Monsters 

Selected publications

Monographs:

Miikka Tamminen, Keskiajan hirviöt (Gaudeamus, 2021)

Miikka Tamminen, Crusade Preaching and the Ideal Crusader (Brepols, 2018)

Edited Books:

Negotiation, Collaboration and Conflict in Ancient and Medieval Communities, (eds.) C. Krötzl, K. Mustakallio & M. Tamminen (Routledge, London - New York 2022)

Changing Minds. Communication and Influence in the High and Later Middle Ages, (eds.) C. Krötzl & M. Tamminen, (Acta IRF, 2013)

Peer-reviewed scientific articles:

‘The Axe of Lalli and the Cap of St. Henry - A View from Finland’, in F. Hinz & J. Meyer-Hamme (eds.), Controversial Histories (Routledge 2020), 91-94. 

‘Jumalan sota: ristiretket ja oikeutettu sodankäynti’, (toim.) J. Peltonen & O. Peltonen, Lupa tappaa? (SKS, 2019), 127-143.

‘Cleansing the Infidel Filth’, in K.V. Jensen, C.S. Jensen & J.M. Jensen (eds.), Fighting for the Faith, (Runica et Mediaevalia 2018), 43-71.

‘The Crusader’s Stigmata’, in C. Krötzl, K. Mustakallio, J. Kuuliala (eds.), Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Ashgate 2015), 103-117.

‘Saracens, Schismatics, and Heretics in Jacques de Vitry’s Historia Orientalis’, in C. Krötzl & M. Tamminen (eds.), Changing Minds. Communication and Influence in the High and Later Middle Ages, (Acta IRF, 2013), 127-150.

‘Kuva koverasta peilistä’, M.-L. Hänninen (toim.), Vieras, outo, vihollinen. Toiseus antiikista uuden ajan alkuun (SKS, 2013), 372-392.

‘Crusading in the Margins?’, in S. Katajala-Peltomaa & V. Vuolanto (eds.), Religious Participation in Ancient and Medieval Societies (Acta IRF, 2013)

‘Who Deserves the Crown of Martyrdom?’, in C. Krötzl & K. Mustakallio (eds.), On Old Age (Brepols 2011), 293-313.

‘A Test of Friendship’, in C. Krötzl & K. Mustakallio (eds.), De Amicitia (Acta IRF, 2010), 213-229.