Reima Välimäki is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turku, Finland. He is the author of Heresy in Late Medieval Germany (2019).

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsPreface: Medievalism in Finland and Russia and why it mattersIntroduction: Who owns the Middle Ages? Metamedievalism and structural exclusion Andrew B. R Elliott (University of Lincoln, UK)1. Middle Ages on the 'Map of the Memory' of Russian Society Evgenii Rostovtsev (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)2. ‘A thousand years of history’: References to the past in the addresses to the Federal Assembly by the president of Russia, 2000-19 Kati Parppei (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)3. Mapping the pseudohistorical knowledge space in the Russian World Wide Web Mila Oiva and Anna Ristilä (University of Turku, Finland)4. A lens most obscured: Western perceptions of contemporary Russian medievalisms Evan Wallace (University of Central Florida, USA)5. Memorializing the Finnish medieval past Sirpa Aalto & Timo Ylimaunu (University of Oulu, Finland)6. The Missing Finnish Runestones Kendra Wilson (University of Turku, Finland)7. Masculine online medievalism in twenty-first-century Finland Heta Aali (University of Turku, Finland)8. Particularizing the Universal: Medievalist Constructions of Cultural and Religious Difference in the Crusader Kings II Jere Kyyrö (University of Turku, Finland)AppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex

This volume offers a valuable contribution to the emerging field of medievalism studies in Russia and Finland. By comparing the contemporary reception of the Middle Ages in those two countries, it provides indispensable insights into their current political and cultural relations.

Reima Välimäki is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turku, Finland. He is the author of Heresy in Late Medieval Germany (2019).

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsPreface: Medievalism in Finland and Russia and why it mattersIntroduction: Who owns the Middle Ages? Metamedievalism and structural exclusion Andrew B. R Elliott (University of Lincoln, UK)1. Middle Ages on the 'Map of the Memory' of Russian Society Evgenii Rostovtsev (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)2. ‘A thousand years of history’: References to the past in the addresses to the Federal Assembly by the president of Russia, 2000-19 Kati Parppei (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)3. Mapping the pseudohistorical knowledge space in the Russian World Wide Web Mila Oiva and Anna Ristilä (University of Turku, Finland)4. A lens most obscured: Western perceptions of contemporary Russian medievalisms Evan Wallace (University of Central Florida, USA)5. Memorializing the Finnish medieval past Sirpa Aalto & Timo Ylimaunu (University of Oulu, Finland)6. The Missing Finnish Runestones Kendra Wilson (University of Turku, Finland)7. Masculine online medievalism in twenty-first-century Finland Heta Aali (University of Turku, Finland)8. Particularizing the Universal: Medievalist Constructions of Cultural and Religious Difference in the Crusader Kings II Jere Kyyrö (University of Turku, Finland)AppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex

This volume offers a valuable contribution to the emerging field of medievalism studies in Russia and Finland. By comparing the contemporary reception of the Middle Ages in those two countries, it provides indispensable insights into their current political and cultural relations.

Reima Välimäki is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turku, Finland. He is the author of Heresy in Late Medieval Germany (2019).

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsPreface: Medievalism in Finland and Russia and why it mattersIntroduction: Who owns the Middle Ages? Metamedievalism and structural exclusion Andrew B. R Elliott (University of Lincoln, UK)1. Middle Ages on the 'Map of the Memory' of Russian Society Evgenii Rostovtsev (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)2. ‘A thousand years of history’: References to the past in the addresses to the Federal Assembly by the president of Russia, 2000-19 Kati Parppei (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)3. Mapping the pseudohistorical knowledge space in the Russian World Wide Web Mila Oiva and Anna Ristilä (University of Turku, Finland)4. A lens most obscured: Western perceptions of contemporary Russian medievalisms Evan Wallace (University of Central Florida, USA)5. Memorializing the Finnish medieval past Sirpa Aalto & Timo Ylimaunu (University of Oulu, Finland)6. The Missing Finnish Runestones Kendra Wilson (University of Turku, Finland)7. Masculine online medievalism in twenty-first-century Finland Heta Aali (University of Turku, Finland)8. Particularizing the Universal: Medievalist Constructions of Cultural and Religious Difference in the Crusader Kings II Jere Kyyrö (University of Turku, Finland)AppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex

This volume offers a valuable contribution to the emerging field of medievalism studies in Russia and Finland. By comparing the contemporary reception of the Middle Ages in those two countries, it provides indispensable insights into their current political and cultural relations.