Mental Maps and Sacred Spaces: An Empirical Analysis of Late Medieval Towns of the Baltic Sea Region, 1420–1520.

This article analyses how and to what extent medieval men and women utilized religious elements when they thought of the local physical space around themselves. Urban spaces usually contained plenty of physical elements connected to Christian faith, even if only bearing names related to it. This art...

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Publicado en:Scandinavian Journal of History Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 121 - 147
Autores principales: Hägglund, Anna-Stina, Kołodziejczak, Piotr, Lamberg, Marko
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd May2025
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          Cultural History, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
          Department of the History of Pomerania, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Toruń, Poland
          Church history, Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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        Geographical perception
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      ab: This article analyses how and to what extent medieval men and women utilized religious elements when they thought of the local physical space around themselves. Urban spaces usually contained plenty of physical elements connected to Christian faith, even if only bearing names related to it. This article seeks to clarify what kind of significance these nominally religious physical landmarks had for the mental landscapes of medieval town dwellers and the role of religious elements in their daily lives. We undertook such an endeavour by analysing how locations in urban space were described in written sources from the medieval towns of Åbo (Fin. Turku), Reval (Est. Tallinn), Stockholm, Stralsund and the two towns of Thorn (Pol. Toruń) in the period between 1420 and 1520. Our results indicate several local differences, but also highlight a common feature in terms of a practical emphasis on the visibility of landmarks.
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