Holger Kaasik

Published: 25 September 2017

Saints, Remembrance and Regional Contacts - A Multidisciplinary Approach to Italian Calendars, 1100 - 1500

University of St Andrews

Saints, Remembrance and Regional Contacts - A Multidisciplinary Approach to Italian Calendars, 1100 - 1500


Academic History:

2017: PhD Candidate - Medieval History, University of St Andrews

2016: MA - History, University of Helsinki

2014: BA - History, University of Helsinki

Supervisors:

Professor Frances Andrews, University of St Andrews

Dr James Palmer, University of St Andrews

Research Interests:

  • Medieval manuscripts and book history
  • History of time and communal memory
  • Medieval Rome and Central Italy
  • Digital humanities, stemmatology and bioinformatics
  • The Baltic Crusades
  • Romanticism, medievalism, and nationalist narratives of medieval history

Previous Research Projects:

Researcher in research project Conceptions of Time in Medieval Rome, Finnish Institute in Rome, 2016–2017

Research Assistant, Finnish Institute in Rome, 2015

St. Peter’s calendars in the 14th and 15th centuries – Identifying saints venerated and manuscripts used at the Vatican Basilica combining traditional and digital methods, University of Helsinki, Master’s thesis

Estones de Osilia insula – The Estonians of Oesel in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia [orig. title in Finnish: Saarenmaan virolaiset Henrikin Liivinmaan kronikassa], University of Helsinki, Bachelor’s thesis

Scholarships:

  • Arts and Humanities Research Council Studentship
  • University of St Andrews, St Leonard's College Scholarship
  • University of St Andrews, School of History Scholarship

Publications:

Estones de Osilia insula – The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, the Oeselians, and the Estonians’ “Ancient Freedom War” [orig. title in Finnish: Henrikin Liivinmaan kronikka, saarenmaalaiset ja virolaisten muinainen vapaustaistelu], in Synteesi (4/2013), ISSN 0359-5242

Contact Details:

Address: 36 Innerbridge Street, Guardbridge, Fife KY16 0UZ

Work Tel No: +358505271879

Email: hk56@st-andrews.ac.uk


First published: 25 September 2017