Kirsi Salonen
Position
medieval history; PhD coordinator
Affiliation
Research groups
Research
Monographs:
- Papal Justice in the Late Middle Ages: The Sacra Romana Rota. Routledge: London & New York, 2016. (199 p.)
- Entering a Clerical Career at the Roman Curia, 1458–1471. Ashgate: Surrey, 2013. (Together with Jussi Hanska, 295 p.)
- Kirkollisen oikeudenkäytön päälähteillä – Sacra Romana Rotan toiminta ja sen oikeudellinen tausta myöhäiskeskiajalla ja uuden ajan alun taitteessa. Suomen kirkkohistoriallisen seuran toimituksia, 221. Suomen kirkkohistoriallinen seura: Helsinki, 2012. (383 p.)
- Synti ja sovitus. Rikos ja rangaistus. Suomalaisten rikkomuksista keskiajalla. Historiallisia Tutkimuksia, 249. SKS: Helsinki, 2009. (272 p.)
- A Sip from the “Well of Grace”. Medieval Texts from the Apostolic Penitentiary. Catholic University Press of America: Washington D.C., 2009. (Together with Ludwig Schmugge, 196 p.)
- Kirkko, kuri ja koulutus. Hengellisen säädyn moraalihistoriaa myöhäiskeskiajalla. SKS: Helsinki, 2004. (Together with Jussi Hanska, 252 p.)
Source publication:
- Auctoritate Papae. The Church Province of Uppsala and the Apostolic Penitentiary 1410–1526. Diplomatarium Suecanum, Appendix, Acta Pontificum Suecica II. Text edition by Sara Risberg, Introduction by Kirsi Salonen. Riksarkivet: Stockholm, 2008. (Introduction 138 p.)
Publications
Academic article
- Kirsi Salonen (2025). Hämeen kapina - uudelleentulkinta. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2024). Syndare från Västergötland. Den påvliga penitentiarian och det medeltida Skara stift.. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2024). Turun myöhäiskeskiaikaisten piispojen nimitys Rooman kuuriassa. (external link)
- Aino Liira; Kirsi Salonen (2023). Licentia testandi – paavillinen lupa papeille testamentata omaisuuttaan. (external link)
- Reima Välimäki; Kirsi Leena Salonen (2022). The materiality of Turku Cathedral’s spiritual treasury: Indulgences. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen; Reima Välimäki (2021). Kriisi ja mahdollisuus: verkostoanalyysin näkökulma Bonifatius IX:n kuuriaan lännen suuressa skismassa. (external link)
Academic book chapter
- Kirsi Salonen (2025). Stadsret og kirkebod – Roskilde. (external link)
- Kurt Villads; Kirsi Salonen (2025). On adultery and other spiritual matters -Even in Lund. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2025). Theft and Suspicious Death in the Medieval Crime Town Ystad. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2025). Papal Administration and the Rights of Clergymen to Make a Last Will in the Medieval Diocese of Turku. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2025). Sacra Romana Rota – the Papal Tribunal of Tribunals?. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2025). “He is totally innocent”: The Discussion about the Guilt of King Christian II in the Papal Curia. (external link)
- Marika Räsänen; Kirsi Salonen (2025). The Schism in Rome: introduction. (external link)
- Reima Välimäki; Kirsi Salonen; Juuso Karhu (2025). The Papal Curia and the religious orders during the Great Western Schism. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2024). Debilis complexio: Christians and Dietary Requirements of Canon Law. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2024). Canon Law and the Pilgrim. (external link)
- Ilari Aalto; Kirsi Salonen (2024). Turun ravintolakulttuurin alku keskiajalla. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2023). How Popes Governed Christendom?. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2023). Canons of Lund before the Pope and the Papal Penitentiary in the Middle Ages. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2023). "Cum parvo cultello unico ictu percussit". Penitentiariearkivet, präster och bordsknivar under senmedeltiden”. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2023). To Be a Canon - Or Not To Be? Papal Provisions to the Medieval Cathedral Chapter of Turku. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2023). The Apostolic Penitentiary and Inquisition. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2023). Franciskansk masseudvandring. Danske ansøgninger til det pavelige pønitentiariat om at forlade konventet i 1518. (external link)
- Kirsi Leena Salonen (2022). Papal Provisions: Process, Sources and Problems. The Case of the Praepositura in Linköping in 1512-1515. (external link)
- Kirsi Leena Salonen (2022). The Medieval Source Material from the Papal Curia. (external link)
- Kirsi Leena Salonen (2022). The Vatican Collections in the Finnish National Archives. (external link)
- Janne Harjula; Visa Immonen; Kirsi Salonen (2021). Medieval Literacy in Turku: Material and Linguistic Remains from a Multilingual Townscape. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen; Janne Harjula; Visa Immonen (2021). Keskiajan kirjallinen kulttuuri Turussa – kielet arkeologisissa löydöissä, esineissä ja tekstilähteissä. (external link)
Academic literature review
- Kirsi Leena Salonen (2024). Book review: Élisabeth Lusset / Clément Pieyre: La Pénitencerie apostolique sous Innocent VIII (1484-1492). (external link)
- Kirsi Leena Salonen (2021). Rezension: Modus supplicandi. Zwischen herrschaftlicher Gnade und importunitas petentium, hg. von Christian Lackner / Daniel Luger. (external link)
Academic monograph
- Kirsi Salonen; Reima Välimäki; Teemu Immonen et al. (2026). Rome and the Great Western Schism 1378-1417: the History and Aftermath of a Medieval Religious Conflict. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen; Kurt Villads Jensen (2023). Scandinavia in the Middle Ages 900-1550: Between Two Oceans. (external link)
- Torstein Jørgensen; Gerhard Jaritz; Kirsi Salonen (2004). The Long arm of papal authority : late medieval Christianperipheries and their communication with the Holy See. (external link)
- Torstein Jørgensen; Gerhard Jaritz; Kirsi Salonen (2004). The long arm of papal authority : late medieval Christian peripheries and their communication with the Holy See. (external link)
Book anthology
- Claes Gejrot; Kurt Villads Jensen; Kirsi Salonen et al. (2025). Testaments as Historical Documents. Papers from the 17th Congress of the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique. (external link)
- Marika Räsänen; Kirsi Salonen (2025). Religious communities in Rome during the Great Western Schism. (external link)
- Topi Artukka; Kirsi Salonen; Panu Savolainen (2024). Kiltatupia, krouveja ja kahviloita —Turun ravintolaelämän historia 1300–1827. (external link)
- Kirsi Leena Salonen; Anna-Stina Hägglund; Claes Gejrot (2022). Scandinavia and the Vatican Archives : papers from a conference in Stockholm 14-15 october 2016. (external link)
- Per Andersen; Kirsi Salonen; Helle I.M. Sigh et al. (2014). How Nordic are the Nordic Medieval Laws? - Ten Years After Proceedings of the Tenth Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Legal History 2013. (external link)
- Torstein Jørgensen; Kurt Villads Jensen; Kirsi Salonen (2013). Medieval Christianity in the North. (external link)
- Per Andersen; Kirsi Salonen; Helle M. Sigh et al. (2013). Law and Disputing in the Middle Ages: Proceedings of the Ninth Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Legal History 2012. (external link)
- Per Andersen; Kirsi Salonen; Helle Møller Sigh et al. (2012). Law and Marriage in Medieval and Early Modern Times. Proceedings of the Eighth Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Legal History 2011. (external link)
Conference lecture
- Kirsi Salonen (2025). Syndare från Västergötland. Den påvliga penitentiarian och det medeltida Skara stift.. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2025). The Papal Penitentiary. The Clergy and Sins in the Late Middle Ages. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2025). How to protect one’s fama? Danish petitioners and the Papal Penitentiary in the late Middle Ages. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2025). Hämeen kapina 1236/7 revisited. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2024). “I did not kill him.” Papal pardon for Swedes in case of violence. (external link)
- Kirsi Leena Salonen (2024). Crime and punishment. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2023). Who Turned to Pope Boniface IX and Why?. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2023). You are hired! University students’ career possibilities in the papal curia during the Schism. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2023). “Inextricabilis curie labyrinthus”. The papal administration in the later Middle Ages, and its survived source material. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2023). The Far-Away Diocese of Turku and the Penitential Hierarchies in the later Middle Ages. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2023). Papal administration and last wills. (external link)
- Kirsi Leena Salonen (2022). Polish Sinners Peggin Pardon from the Pope: Penitentiary cases from the mid-15th century. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2022). Kyrklig elit i Finland: Biskop Thomas och "kanslerbiskoparna". (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2022). Court process before the Sacra Romana Rota. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2022). Bishop Thomas of Finland: Administrator, politician and sinner. (external link)
- Kirsi Leena Salonen (2022). Hvordan kunne det pavelige pønitensiariatet hjelpe de som hadde syndet eller ville synde – og hva vet vi om det?. (external link)
- Kirsi Leena Salonen (2022). Norske kanniker på vej til Rom. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2022). Paavin kuuria yhteisönä skisman aikana. (external link)
- Kirsi Leena Salonen (2022). Latin från Vatikanarkivet. Skandinavisk forskning om påvlig källmaterial.. (external link)
- Kirsi Leena Salonen (2021). "He is totally innocent". King Christian's defense in front of the pope. (external link)
- Kirsi Leena Salonen (2021). "Cum parvo cultello unico ictu percussit": Penitentiariearkivet præster och bordskniv under senmedeltiden (Landslova IV-15). (external link)
- Kirsi Leena Salonen (2021). Apostolic Penitentiary and Inquisition. (external link)
Editorial/Leader article
Journal review
- Kirsi Salonen (2024). Anmeldelse: Lidia Luisa Zanetti Domingues, Confession and Criminal Justice in Late Medieval Italy. Siena, 1260-1330.. (external link)
- Kirsi Salonen (2023). Review: Philipp Thomas Wollmann, Litterae der Apostolischen Pönitentiarie in partibus (1400–1500). Ein Beitrag zur kurialen Diplomatik. (external link)