Changing minds. Communication and influence in the high and later Middle ages

Introduction. Memory, Influence and Promotion. Lari Ahokas, Remembering the Tyrant: Memory of the Early Abbots of Farfa in the Works of Gregory of Catino. Teemu Immonen, Communicative Aspects of Eremitical Life in the Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Italy. Pekka Tolonen, The Secret Lineage of Mathilda of Lappion? On Saintly Women, Men and their Proponents in Thirteenth-Century Northern France and Flanders. Spreading Messages and Exerting Influence. Christian Krötzl, "Fama volat". On Propagation, Decision-Making and Influence in the Later Middle Ages. Jussi Hanska, From Historical Event to Didactic Story. Medieval Miracle Stories as a Means of Communication. Marika Räsänen, Making a Saint for the Monastery of Fossanova. The Dispute on the Ownership of the Corpse of Saint Thomas Aquinas at the Time of His Canonisation (1323). Propagation, Interaction and Cultural Boundaries. Miikka Tamminen, Saracens, Schismatics and Heretics in Jacques de Vitry's Historia Orientalis. Criticism, Messages and the Use of Sources. Kirsi Salonen, Illegal Business with Non-Christians and Pilgrims to the Holy Sepulchre. The Apostolic Penitentiary and the Contacts of Christian with Non-Christians during the Pontificate of Pope Pius II (1458-1464).