Sini Kangas

Sini Kangas, Ph.D.

Researcher

Medieval History, History of the Crusades, History of Childhood

Christian Holy War, Religious Violence, Indoctrination

Monographs

Sini Kangas, Ristiretkien historia (1096-1192). Helsinki: SKS, 2025.

Sini Kangas, War and Violence in the Western Sources for the First Crusade. Leiden: Brill, 2024.

Edited works

Sini Kangas ed., Rituals in the Middle Ages: At Crossroads of Lay Culture and Official Doctrine in Medieval Europe and Eastern Mediterranean. Theme issue. Viator 54 No. 2 (2023): 27–146.

Sini Kangas, Mia Korpiola, Tuija Ainonen eds., Authorities in the Middle Ages: Influence, Legitimacy, and Power in Medieval Society. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2013.  

Sini Kangas, Marjatta Hietala, Heikki Ylikangas eds., Historia eilen ja tänään. Historiantutkimuksen ja arkeologian suunnat Suomessa 1908–2008. Bidrag till kännedom av Finlands natur och folk 179. Helsinki: Suomen Tiedeseura, 2009.  

Articles (refereed) 

Sini Kangas, “References to Children in Henry’s Livonian Chronicle”. In Fighting for the East, ed. by Kurt Villads Jensen, Jens E. Olesen, and Kirsi Salonen. Mirator 1 (2025): 43–54. Open Access: https://journal.fi/mirator/article/view/159702 https://journal.fi/mirator/article/view/159702/104320.

Sini Kangas, “Les croisades dites populaires”. In Les Croisades Histoire, idées reçues et méconnues, ed. by Martin Aurell and Sylvain Gouguenheim, 287–302. Paris: Perrin, 2025.

Sini Kangas, “La première croisade”. In Les Croisades Histoire, idées reçues et méconnues, ed. by Martin Aurell and Sylvain Gouguenheim, 39–56. Paris: Perrin, 2025.

Sini Kangas, “Crusader Burials in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Sources of the Crusades.” In Sepolture nel Medioevo mediterraneo (IV–XV secolo), ed. by Fabio Coden, 120–41. Minima medievalia 6. University of Verona: Silvana Editoriale, 2025.

“Prayers by the Crusader Knights: Ritual Observation and Literary Adaptations in the Narratives of the First Crusade.” In Rituals in the Middle Ages: At Crossroads of Lay Culture and Official Doctrine in Medieval Europe and Eastern Mediterranean, ed. by Sini Kangas. Theme Issue, Viator 54 No. 2 (2023): 95–115.

“Introduction.” In Rituals in the Middle Ages: At Crossroads of Lay Culture and Official Doctrine in Medieval Europe and Eastern Mediterranean, ed. by Sini Kangas. Theme Issue, Viator 54 No. 2 (2023): 27–36. Open Access: https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.142208?mobileUi=0

with Alessia Chapel and Vladimir Agrigoroaei, “Tertia die resurrexit: Formulae and Translation Automatisms of the Apostles’ Creed in the Old French Epic Poems of the 12th and 13th Centuries.” In Translation Automatisms in the Vernacular Texts of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, ed. by Vladimir Agrigoraei, Ileana Sasu, 413−22. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023.

“Invocations by Knights for Supernatural Aid in the Sources of the Baltic Crusades, Medieval Poland and the Chansons of Crusades”. In Religious Rites of War beyond the Medieval West. Vol. 2. East Central and Northern Europe (c.900−1500), ed. by Radoslaw Kotecki, Jacek Maciejewski, Gregory Leighton, 189−230. Explorations in Medieval Culture 24/2. Leiden: Brill, 2023.

“Leadership on Crusade: Military Excellence, Physical Action and Gender in the Twelfth-Century Chronicles of the First Crusade and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem”. In Charisma in the Middle Ages, ed. by Jaume Aurell and Montserrat Herrero. Religions 14/10 (2023): 1251. Open Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/10/1251

“Scripture, Hierarchy, and Social Control in The Uses of the Bible in the Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Chronicles and Chansons of the Crusades”. In Transcultural Approaches to the Bible: Exegesis and Historical Writing in the Medieval Worlds, ed. by Matthias M. Tischler and Patrick Marschner, 109−44. Transcultural Medieval Studies 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.

“The Image of Warrior Bishops in the Northern Tradition of the Crusades”. In Christianity and War in Medieval East, Central Europe and Scandinavia, ed. by Radoslaw Kotecki, Carsten Selch Jensen, Stephen Bennett, 57−73. York: ARC Humanities Press, 2021.

 “Slaughter of the Innocents and Depiction of Children in the Twelfth-Century Sources of the Crusades”. In The Uses of the Bible in Crusading Sources, ed. by Elizabeth Lapina and Nicholas Morton, 74−101. Leiden: Brill, 2017. 

“Growing up to Become a Crusader: The Next Generation”. In Jerusalem the Golden. The Origin and Impact of the First Crusade, ed. by Susan Edgington and Luis García-Guijarro, 255−72. Outremer 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. 

“First in Prowess and Faith. The Great Encounter in Twelfth-Century Crusader Narratives”. In Cultural Encounters during the Crusades, ed. by Kurt Villads Jensen, Kirsi Salonen and Helle Vogt, 119−34. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2013. 

 “A Great Stirring of Hearts or Papal Inspiration? Contesting Popular Authority in the Preaching of the First Crusade.” In Authorities in the Middle Ages: Influence, Legitimacy, and Power in Medieval Society, ed. by Sini Kangas, Mia Korpiola, Tuija Ainonen, 55−68. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2013. 

 “Inimicus Dei et Sanctae Christianitatis? Saracens and their Prophet in Twelfth-century Crusade Propaganda and Western Travesties of Muhammad’s Life.” In The Crusades and the Near East: Cultural Histories, ed. by Conor Kostick, 131−60. London and New York: Routledge, 2011. 

“The Genesis of a Crusade Chronicle in the Early Twelfth Century.” In Methods and the Medievalist: Current Approaches in Medieval History, ed. by Marko Lamberg, Jesse Keskiaho, Elina Räsänen and Olga Timofeeva. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 

 “The Murder of St. Henry of Finland, Crusader Bishop.” In Les elites nordiques et l’Europe occidentale, ed. by Elisabeth Mornet, 189−96. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2007.