Saints and Heroes from Christianization to Nationalism: Symbol, Image, Memory (North-West Russia, Baltic and Nordic Countries)

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Cordelia Heß
• Subject Area: Medieval History ; Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: from 2020 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 445187042

• Final Report Year: 2025

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Publications

• Podcast: “Baltic Ways, Ep. 21: Dead, but not Forgotten: Commemoration in Medieval Livonia. An interview with Dr. Gustavs Strenga” dead-but-not-forgotten-commemoration-in-medievallivonia/ (13.06.2024)
  Gustavs Strenga
  
• Lecture in the lecture series of the GRK Baltic Peripeties: “Integration, Trauma, and Fragmentation: Medieval Saints and Heroes as Modern Realms of Memory”, University of Greifswald, 17.06.2021.
  Cordelia Heß & Gustavs Strenga
  
• “Livonian founding bishops and medieval indigenous ‘heroes’ during the age of nationalism”. International Conference Remembering a pre-modern past in a modern world: Medieval saints and heroes as realms of memory in 19th and 20th Century Central, Eastern and Northern Europe, University of Greifswald, October 18-19, 2021
  Gustavs Strenga
  
• Becoming a hero: Wolter von Plettenberg, the Master of the Teutonic Order’s Livonian branch (1494-1535) and the construction of his fame”. Conference: International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, UK, 04.07.- 07.07.2022
  Gustavs Strenga
  
• “Building a landscape of remembering medieval heroes in the Baltic - premodern and modern”. IFZO Conference Baltic Sea in Exchange. Transformations between Conflict and Cooperation, Universität Greifswald, 07.07.-09.07.2022
  Gustavs Strenga
  
• “Old memories, new perspectives. The research of the Baltic pre-modern memory cultures and commemoration of medieval historical personalities, its past and future”. 28th Biennial AABS Conference Baltic Studies at a Crossroads, University of Washington, Seattle, 27.05.–29.05.2022
  Gustavs Strenga
  
• „Finnish, Estonian and Latvian medieval (anti)heroes and their role in the national awakening”. Nordiska historikermötet, Göteborg 8.08.-11.08.2022
  Gustavs Strenga
  
• Paper: “A long relationship between a hero and his enemies: Master Wolter von Plettenberg and Russians (c. 1500- c. 1700)”. Workshop: The Role of the Anti-Heroes and Evil in the Construction of the Late Medieval Northern European Heroes, Project workshop, September 14-15 2023
  Gustavs Strenga
  
• Paper: “Becoming a hero: Wolter von Plettenberg, the Master the Teutonic Order’s Livonian branch (1494-1535) and construction of his fame”. International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 04.07-07.07.2023
  Gustavs Strenga
  
• Paper: „Ethnicity as a Social Concept?: Non- Germans in Medieval Livonia Between Rich Research Tradition and New Approaches”. International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 03.07.-06.07.2023
  Gustavs Strenga
  
• Public Lecture: „Zwei baltische Helden aus dem Mittelalter: Ihr heroisches Nachleben in der Moderne“. Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 17.01.2023
  Gustavs Strenga
  
• Doing Memory of Medieval Saints and Heroes in the Baltic Sea Region. Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th–20th Centuries), 1–20.
  Heß, Cordelia & Gustavs Strenga
  
• Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th–20th centuries). De Gruyter.
  Heß, Cordelia & Strenga, Gustavs
  
• From Bishop-Killer to Latvian National Hero: Imanta’s Transformations from the Middle Ages to Nation-Building. Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th–20th centuries), 81-110. De Gruyter.
  Strenga, Gustavs
  
• Panel debate “Wie erinnern wir?” Flensburger Kurzfilmtage, 15.11.2024.
  Cordelia Heß
  
• Paper: “Afterlife of Cistercian Nuns in Riga: Memory of a Medieval Convent, Nuns and Their Books”. Conference: International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, UK, 01.07.-04.07.24
  Gustavs Strenga
  
• Paper: “Presentation of the book Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th–20th centuries) with Cordelia Heß”. Conference: Joint Lecture Series “20 Years of EU Enlargement to the East. Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Baltic Sea Region”, University of Greifswald, 27.06.2024
  Cordelia Heß & Gustavs Strenga
  
• Paper: “Symbols in the Fight for Freedom: Latvian Medieval Heroes as Counter-Heroes in the Age of Nation and State Building”. Conference: The 29th Biennial AABS Conference The Baltic Way: Unity and Giving Aid, Yale University, New Haven USA, 13.06-16.06.24
  Gustavs Strenga
  
• Paper: “Zwischen Politik, Propaganda, Ruhm und Erinnerung: Erinnerung an den livländischen Meister Wolter von Plettenberg zwischen 1502 und der Ewigkeit”. 76. Jahrestagung der Baltischen Historischen Kommission, Göttingen, 25.05-26.05.24
  Gustavs Strenga
  
• Podcast “Der Rest ist Geschichte”, Deutschlandfunk, 25.1.2025
  Cordelia Heß
  
• “Hagiographische Fragen: Internationale Perspektiven aus 30 Jahren” gemeinsamer Round Table mit Elke Koch (Berlin) und Hedwig Röckelein (Göttingen) im Rahmen der Tagung "Hagiographie interdisziplinär – Aktuelle Themen und Tendenzen in der hagiographischen Forschung", Stuttgart-Hohenheim, 11.04.2024.
  Cordelia Heß
  
• Anti-Heroes. Rombach Wissenschaft – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
  Strenga, Gustavs & Heß, Cordelia
  
• Chapter 1 Indigenous counter-heroes and the »discovery« of Vínland. Anti-Heroes, 27-56. Rombach Wissenschaft – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
  Heß, Cordelia
  
• Chapter 6 A Long Relationship Between a Hero and His Enemies: Master Wolter von Plettenberg and the Russians (c. 1500– c. 1700). Anti-Heroes, 173-206. Rombach Wissenschaft – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
  Strenga, Gustavs
  
• Heroic Contradictions: An Introduction. Anti-Heroes, 9-26. Rombach Wissenschaft – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
  Heß, Cordelia & Strenga, Gustavs