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Time cycles of homicide in the early modern Nordic area
2020
An extensive body of criminological research has shown that criminaland violent behaviour manifests time patterns in terms of daily,weekly and annual cycles. This is consistent with criminologicalroutine activities theory. Can we generalize these patterns to historicalperiods? In this article, we draw on a recently created uniquedataset, covering the years 1608–1699 in three Nordic regions, toexplore time cycles of offending in the early modern period.Examining daily, weekly and annual cycles, we find that lethalviolence manifested strong time patterns in the early modernperiod. The role of public holidays was central especially in theperiod lasting from Christmas to Midsummer. Probing the …
Pyhäpäivien vietto varhaismodernin ajan Savossa (vuoteen 1710)
2016
In this dissertation, I study the observance of holy days among the peasantry in the early modern province of Savo, located on the eastern periphery of the Swedish kingdom (today Eastern Finland). I examine the practices, norms and meanings related to the observance of holy days both within and outside the Church, and analyse the changes and continuities in the post-reformation period. As the main sources of the study, I use district court records and visitation records mainly from the period 1639–1712. I analyse the cases with a micro-historical perspective and an anthropological approach. The lived religion of the peasantry was constituted especially through practices that were connected …
Pyhäpäivien vietto varhaismodernin ajan Savossa (vuoteen 1710). Lectio praecursoria 29.4.2016.
2016
FM Miia Kuhan Suomen historian väitöskirja Pyhäpäivien vietto varhaismodernin ajan Savossa (vuoteen 1710) tarkastettiin 29.4.2016 Jyväskylän yliopistossa. Vastaväittäjänä toimi dosentti Raisa Maria Toivo Tampereen yliopistosta ja kustoksena professori Kustaa H. J. Vilkuna Jyväskylän yliopistosta.