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  • Jensen-Saints Front Cover; 9781580443241_ebookTW; Halftitle; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Part I; Introduction and Methodological Questions; Saints and Sainthood around the Baltic Seaâ#x80;#x94;An Introduction; The Elusive Quality of Saints; Saints, Churches, and Cults; Medieval Cults and Modern Inventions; Dorothy of Montau, the Teutonic Order and â#x80;#x9C;Katholiken fÃơr Hitlerâ#x80;#x9D;; Finnish Saintsâ#x80;#x99; Traditions and Folklore; Interpreting St. Anne, St. Katherine ofAlexandria, and St. Birgitta of Sweden; Part II; The Cult of Saints in Medieval Russia and Livonia.
  • Varangian Saints and Christlike Varangians in Early Rusâ#x80;#x99; ChristianityThe Cult and Visual Representation of Scandinavian Saints in Medieval Livonia; History Made Sacred; Martyrdom and the Making of a Sanctified Beginning in Early Thirteenth-Century Livonia; Part III; Saintsâ#x80;#x99; Cults and the Creation of Regional and National Identities; St. Canute Lavard around the Baltic Sea; Saints, Guilds, and Seals; From Exclusivity to Competition; Saints and Political Identities in Late Medieval Lund and Uppsala; Saints at War in the Baltic Region.
  • Saints around the Balticâ#x80;#x94;Some Remarks, Conclusions, and Further QuestionsBibliography; List of Contributors; Index.