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• Functions of sermons, functions of saints. A comparative study of sermons from Vadstena Abbey, c. 1390–1515, on St. Birgitta, St. Botolph, and St. Erik

My research focus upon Late medieval religiosity with a particular focus on sermons, saints and liturgy. I am particularly interested in Vadstena Abbey and St. Birgitta of Sweden. My area of expertise is medieval sermons in general and Swedish medieval sermons in particular. Sermons on saints, rhetoric, form and the functions of saints in this massmedium is the focus of my dissertation in addition to questions on potential groups of audiences. Two articles are published that investigates groups of audiences in sermons in general and sermons to the sisters in Vadstena Abbey from the beginning of the 16th-century in particular. In addition to the mentioned interests, I have been working on liturgical handbooks  from the middle of the 16th-century Denmark. I have prepared and am planning to publish "Severinus homiliebok" from 1552, a liturgical handbook from the area of Lund, in the coming years.

I am also doing translations from Latin to Swedish of older texts from late antiquity to the Reformation.

Articles (1)

• Claeson, E. (2018). ”Allt efter vars och ens fattningsgåvor!” : Predikningar till präster, ordenssystrar och lekfolk från Vadstena klosters bibliotek. Svenskt gudstjänstliv, 93, 47-84. Artos & Norma.
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Book chapters (2)

• Claeson, E. (accepted/in press). Medeltida predikan. In Hagberg, M. (Ed.) Den som hör er, han hör mig : Perspektiv på kyrkans förkunnelse. Artos & Norma.
• Claeson, E. (2017). Imitatio Christi : Spiritual Marriage, Female Role Models and the Passion of Christ in Fifteenth-Century Vadstena Abbey. In Andersson, E., Gejrot, C., Jones, E. A. & Åkestam, M. (Eds.) Konferenser, Continuity and Change : Papers from the Birgitta Conference at Darlington 2015 (pp. 144-159), 93. Kungliga Vitterhets- historie- och antikvitetsakademien.
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Conference contributions (2)

• Claeson, E. (2015). 'Imitatio Christi' : Brudmystik, lidande och kvinnliga förebilder i 1500-talets Vadstena kloster.
• Claeson, E. (2015). Guidelines for the Sisters in the Abbey of Vadstena : The Continuity Between the Confessor General Nicolaus Ragvaldi ́s Collationes and the Consecration Rite in Regula Sanctissimi Salvatoris.

Reviews (4)

• Claeson, E. (2018). Eva Österberg, ”Tro, tillit, tvivel. Barn i medeltida helgonprocesser”. Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 118, 100-100. Svenska kyrkohistoriska föreningen.
• Claeson, E. (2018). Robert Bartlett, "Why Can the Dead do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation". Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 118, 100-100. Svenska kyrkohistoriska föreningen.
• Claeson, E. (2018). Wenzel, Siegfried, "The Sermons of William Peraldus. An Appraisal". H-Soz-u-Kult Rezensionen. H-Soz-u-Kult.
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• Claeson, E. (2017). Christian Oertel, "The Cult of St Erik in Medieval Sweden. Veneration of a Royal Saint, Twelfth–Sixteenth Centuries". Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 117, 187-188. Svenska kyrkohistoriska föreningen.

Articles in specialist publications and popular press (1)

• Claeson, E. (2018). "Jag gör nu detta vatten friskt. Det skall inte längre orsaka död eller missfall". Classica: Meddelanden från Svenska klassikerförbundet, 2018:1, 17-21. Svenska klassikerförbundet.