Marika Räsänen

Marika Räsänen is currently working as an Academy Research Fellow in a project she is leading by herself entitled « Rethinking the late medieval relic (c. 1200-1550) ». During the previous five years, she held various teaching positions at the University of Turku in Finland. In 2016-2017, she was a guest researcher at the CESCM in the University of Poitiers, and early in her career, she worked for several years at the Finnish Institute in Rome.

The project

Title: Rethinking the late medieval relic (c. 1200-1550), funded by the Academy of Finland

Hosting institution: EHESS

Selective bibliography

‘Splendor and Scarcity of Religious Matter: Medieval Cathedral Treasuries of the North’, jointly with Visa Immonen, in Material Religion. The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief. (Issue 5: Medieval Cathedral Treasuries of the North) Volume 18, 2022, 501–511.

‘The Translation of The Holy Body of Thomas Aquinas from Fossanova to Toulouse: The Original Narrative by Raymundus Hugonis’, jointly with Constant Mews, in Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, (2021), 5–64.

‘Rituals and Spaces of Devotion in Cistercian Everyday Religion’, in A Companion to Medieval Miracle Collections, ed. by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Jenni Kuuliala and Iona McCleery. Reading Medieval Sources, 5. Brill 2021, 144–163.

The Medieval Offices of Thomas Aquinas, written jointly with Hilkka-Liisa Vuori and Seppo Heikkinen. DocMus Research Publications series, 14. Helsinki: The Sibelius Academy Press, 2019.

Thomas Aquinas’ Relics as Focus for Conflict and Cult in Late Middle Ages: The Restless Corpse. Amsterdam University Press, 2017