Preface Sari Katajala-Peltomaa & Raisa Maria Toivo: Religion as Experience Section I Lived religion in daily life Sari Katajala-Peltomaa: Devotional Strategies in Everyday Life: Laity Interaction with Saints in the North in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Jenni Kuuliala: Disability and Religious Practices in Late Medieval Prussia: Infirmity and the Miraculous in the Canonization Process of St. Dorothea of Montau (1404-1406) Raisa Maria Toivo: Protestantism, modernity and the Power of Penetration: Saints and sacrifice in 17th century Lutheran Finland Päivi Räisänen-Schröder: Appeal and Survival of Anabaptism in Early Modern Germany Section II Religious Economics: Charity and Community Jussi Hanska: Poverty and Preaching between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The Case of Ericus Erici, Bishop of Turku Maija Ojala: Urban Funeral Practices in the Baltic Sea Region Marko Lamberg: Religiosity and Readiness for the Reformation among Late Medieval Burghers in Stockholm, c. 1420-1570 Section III Religion, Politics and Contested Identities Jason Lavery: Mikael Agricola: Father of the Finnish Language, Builder of the Swedish State Miia Ijäs: Reformation at the Election Field. Religious politics in the Polish-Lithuanian royal elections, 1573-1576 Kaarlo Arffman: Resistance to the Reformation in 16th-century Finland Bibliography List of contributors Index.