Var der en dominikansk (og franciskansk) mission omkring Den Finske Bugt i middelalderen?

Kirjoittajat

• Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6404-4788

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54334/mirator.v25i1.159704

Avainsanat:

Mission, Conversion of pagans, Dominican Order, Estonia, Finland

Abstrakti

While several recent studies have questioned a traditional view of the Dominican Order as deeply involved with a mission to the non-Catholic peoples of medieval Europe, I have argued that such proselytising efforts are probably still to be acknowledged when looking at Dominican contacts to pagan peoples on the north-eastern and northern borders of Western Christianity. In this chapter, evidence and indications are presented and discussed in terms of a possible Dominican involvement in the mission to the peoples along the Gulf of Finland, i.e. the Estonians, Finns, Tavastians and Carelians – and perhaps even the Orthodox Russians.