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First Name
Marjo
Last Name
Kaartinen
Country
Finland
State
Affiliation
University of Turku
Website URL
https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/Person/773611?auxfun=&lang=en_GB
Keywords
cultural history, early modern Europe, history, racism, England, Finland, esotericism
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My research focuses on early modern cultural history (religion, bodiliness, gender). I have also written on the history of racism in Finland. I'm currently working on 1890s esotericism in Finland. I am ready to comments on topics relating to these.
PhD
PhD

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About Me

My PhD focused on Henrician Reformation, and I published it as Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation (Palgrave 2002). My second English monograph was Breast Cancer in the Eighteenth Century (Pickering & Chatto 2013). I’ve worked on women’s spaces, bodiliness and friendship. My Finnish books have dealt with Early Modern cultural history, history of racism in Finland, and historial methods.

I am currently working on a group of women friends in fin-de-siècle Finland, focusing on the history of friendship. From that project sprang my current book project on spiritualism in Helsinki in the 1890s.

Recent Publications

Open access:

2018:

Vera Hjelt and the calling of Theosophical universal work, 1894–1904.

2017:

Killing time: Ennui in eighteenth-century English culture

 

For more, please consult my homepage

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Finland
Expertise by Geography
England, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
4, 5, 6
Expertise by Topic
Gender, Religion, Sexuality, Women