Exploring polemics and persecution
PERSECUTIO is a research initiative exploring causal dependencies and relations between polemical texts against Christianity’s religious enemies—heretics, Jews and witches—and concrete acts of persecution against those deemed to be representatives of such groups in late medieval Europe between 1300–1500. Currently, the focus is on selected cases in the area of the Holy Roman Empire and Eastern Central Europe. The goal is to expand the project to other European areas.
The project leader is Docent Reima Välimäki, and the research is based at the University of Turku and its multidisciplinary research centre TUCEMEMS
Conference in Rome, May 28–30
Reima Välimäki is participating in the international and interdisciplinary conference Archbishop Jan of Jenštejn: Politics, Liturgy, Devotion and Art around...
Project presentation at the University of Gothenburg
14.09.2023 15:15 - 17:00
Reima Välimäki presents the project at the Medieval Committee of the University of Gothenburg on 14 September 2023. More details...
Reima Välimäki as a podcast guest on YLE on April 21
New study out: How inquisitive was medieval inquisition?
