Skip to main content

About me

PhD, Associate Professor (title of Docent) in Medieval Cultural History

Fields of expertise

High Middle Ages, Crusades, Crusade Propaganda, Sermons, Medieval Monsters 

Selected publications

Monographs:

Miikka Tamminen, Keskiajan hirviöt (Gaudeamus, 2021)

Miikka Tamminen, Crusade Preaching and the Ideal Crusader (Brepols, 2018)

Edited Books:

Negotiation, Collaboration and Conflict in Ancient and Medieval Communities, (eds.) C. Krötzl, K. Mustakallio & M. Tamminen (Routledge, London - New York 2022)

Changing Minds. Communication and Influence in the High and Later Middle Ages, (eds.) C. Krötzl & M. Tamminen, (Acta IRF, 2013)

Peer-reviewed scientific articles:

‘The Axe of Lalli and the Cap of St. Henry - A View from Finland’, in F. Hinz & J. Meyer-Hamme (eds.), Controversial Histories (Routledge 2020), 91-94. 

‘Jumalan sota: ristiretket ja oikeutettu sodankäynti’, (toim.) J. Peltonen & O. Peltonen, Lupa tappaa? (SKS, 2019), 127-143.

‘Cleansing the Infidel Filth’, in K.V. Jensen, C.S. Jensen & J.M. Jensen (eds.), Fighting for the Faith, (Runica et Mediaevalia 2018), 43-71.

‘The Crusader’s Stigmata’, in C. Krötzl, K. Mustakallio, J. Kuuliala (eds.), Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Ashgate 2015), 103-117.

‘Saracens, Schismatics, and Heretics in Jacques de Vitry’s Historia Orientalis’, in C. Krötzl & M. Tamminen (eds.), Changing Minds. Communication and Influence in the High and Later Middle Ages, (Acta IRF, 2013), 127-150.

‘Kuva koverasta peilistä’, M.-L. Hänninen (toim.), Vieras, outo, vihollinen. Toiseus antiikista uuden ajan alkuun (SKS, 2013), 372-392.

‘Crusading in the Margins?’, in S. Katajala-Peltomaa & V. Vuolanto (eds.), Religious Participation in Ancient and Medieval Societies (Acta IRF, 2013)

‘Who Deserves the Crown of Martyrdom?’, in C. Krötzl & K. Mustakallio (eds.), On Old Age (Brepols 2011), 293-313.

‘A Test of Friendship’, in C. Krötzl & K. Mustakallio (eds.), De Amicitia (Acta IRF, 2010), 213-229.