| The ruins of the Naantali monastery
were one of the first sites to be excavated in Finland in the
early 1870’s, by Reinhold Hausen. In 1863 librarian Sven-Gabriel
Elmgren had published a first survey of the site. During the
Interwar period (the 1920’s to 1940’s) the memory
of the monastery in Naantali gathered much attention both as
a landscape of memory in situ, as a lieu de mémoire:
Amos Anderson and teacher Julius Finnberg became inspired by
the medieval site and St. Birgitta. The focus of this thesis
is to present aspects on how the site of the Naantali monastery
was seen in context of cultural heritage, as lieu de mémoire
both with local and national aspects, and as a place for contemporary
religious activity and use of history, thus as a landscape of
memory.
1) “Sven-Gabriel Elmgren och Nådendals klosterruiner”,
Maasta, kivestä ja hengestä. Earth, Stone and Spirit.
Markus Hiekkanen Festschrift. Turun yliopisto, Helsingin yliopisto,
SKHS, SKAS: s.l. 2009.
2) Den långa medeltiden – Mikael Agricolas tid.
Finskt Museum 2008. Red. Helena Edgren & Eva Ahl-Waris,
Finska fornminnesföreningen, Helsingfors (in print).
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