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• Extended Families as Communities of Religious Experience in Late Seventeenth-Century Eastern Finland 

  Kuha, Miia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

  This chapter offers an interpretation of extended families as communities of experience in a rural area close to the eastern border of the Swedish realm. Through a case study of lower court records, Kuha examines the social ...

• Knowledge Transfer Within Artisan Families in Early Nineteenth-Century Rural Finland 

  Uotila, Merja (Routledge, 2019)

  In nineteenth‑century Finland, artisans constituted an important part of society, and the majority of them lived in the countryside. Rural artisans were jacks-of-all-trades who met the needs of country folk. This chapter ...

• Religious participation in the local communities of 17th-century Eastern Finland 

  Kuha, Miia (Scandia: Tidskrift for historisk forskning, Lund University, 2022)

  In recent years, the perspective of lived religion has drawn attention toward the everyday religious practices of the laity. In early-modern Europe, the realm of the sacred could be approached in different ways from within ...

• Poverty and Tax Exemptions in Mid-Nineteenth Century Finland 

  Voutilainen, Miikka (Sam Houston State University, 2017)

  The topic of this article is the nature and social character of Finnish rural poverty during the early stages of industrialization. Specifically, I analyze households exempted from two separate taxes in order to locate and ...

• Several names, several identities? The orthography of Finnish country people’s names from the 18th to 20th centuries 

  Kotilainen, Sofia (Umeå universitet. Institutionen för nordiska språk, 2013)

  In this article, I shall examine how the personal names of the Finnish-speaking population of rural Finland, who themselves were generally unable to write, were written in Swedish equivalents in various documents in ...