Publications

Peer reviewed articles

Aali, Heta. ”Masculine Online Medievalism in Twenty-First-Century Finland”. In Medievalism in Finland and Russia: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Aspects, edited by Reima Välimäki. New Directions in Medieval Studies. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Oiva, Mila, and Anna Ristilä. ”Mapping the Pseudohistorical Knowledge Space in the Russian World Wide Web”. In Medievalism in Finland and Russia: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Aspects, edited by Reima Välimäki. New Directions in Medieval Studies. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Välimäki, Reima. ”Preface: Medievalism in Finland and Russia and Why It Matters”. In Medievalism in Finland and Russia: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Aspects, edited by Reima Välimäki. New Directions in Medieval Studies. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Välimäki, Reima and Heta Aali. “The Ancient Finnish Kings and Their Swedish Archenemy: Nationalism, Conspiracy Theories, and Alt-Right Memes in Finnish Online Medievalism”. Studies in Medievalism 31 (2022), 55–78.

Aho, Marius, Anna Ristilä, Reima Välimäki, Mila Oiva and Aleksi Vesanto, ”Text reuse in large internet data: workflow and BLAST optimization”. Digital Humanities in Nordic and Baltic Countries conference, 3/2022. CEUR Workshop proceedings. (under review)

Edited works

Välimäki, Reima, (ed.) Medievalism in Finland and Russia: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Aspects. New Directions in Medieval Studies. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/medievalism-in-finland-and-russia-9781350232884/ .

Contents:

Preface: Medievalism in Finland and Russia and Why It Matters, Reima Välimäki.

Introduction: Who Owns the Middle Ages? Metamedievalism and Structural Exclusion, Andrew B. R. Elliott.

Chapter 1: The Middle Ages on the ‘Map of Memory’ of Russian Society, E. A. Rostovtsev.

Chapter 2: ‘A Thousand Years of History’ – References to the Past in the Addresses to the Federal Assembly by the President of Russia, 2000–2019, Kati Parppei.

Chapter 3: Mapping the Pseudohistorical Knowledge Space in the Russian World Wide Web, Mila Oiva & Anna Ristilä.

Chapter 4: A Lens Most Obscured: Western Perceptions of Contemporary Russian Medievalisms, Evan Wallace.

Chapter 5: Memorializing the Finnish Medieval Past, Sirpa Aalto & Timo Ylimaunu.

Chapter 6: The Missing Finnish Runestones, Kendra Willson.

Chapter 7: Masculine Online Medievalism in Twenty-first-century Finland, Heta Aali.

Chapter 8: Particularising the Universal: Medievalist Constructions of Cultural and Religious Difference in Crusader Kings II, Jere Kyyrö.

Other academic publications

Oivo, Teemu: “’When truthfulness and honour are not enough’”. Aleksanteri Insight 1/2022, https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/news/society-economy/when-truthfulness-and-honour-are-not-enough .