At theArchivum Generale Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum, Rome. Photo: Sofia Lahti"For us, there is only the trying.
The rest is not our business."

T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Academic || Personal
I have studied at Helsinki University since 1999, getting my BA (HuK) in General History in 2001 and my master's (FM) in the same subject in 2003. Since 2004 I have been a PhD student in the Department of History in Helsinki. I spent the academic year from 2005 to 2006 in Rome, conducting reseach at the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae as the Wihuri fellow. My academic interests lay in Early Medieval history, or more generally in the first millennium, more specifically in Christian thought and cult in its various manifestations. Besides my PhD project on the Reception of Patristic Ideas on Dreams and Visions in the Early Middle Ages, I have participated in the Written Culture in Medieval Finland -project (20072010), studying the medieval parchment fragments conserved in the National Library.  

Since October 2006 I have worked as the editor-in-chief of Mirator, a multilingual electronic journal devoted to the study of the Middle Ages, and also currently serve on the board of Glossa, the National Society for Medieval Studies in Finland. I have also contributed to the Routledge ABES, the After Augustine -project, and Oracles in the Ancient World, project directed by Professor Mika Kajava.

Refereed articles:
"Ps-Isidorus Hispalensis: Sententiarum liber quartus (CPPMA 1080) - some notes on a 12th - 13th century florilegy", in Revue Bénédictine 120:1 (2010), 100128.

"Bortom fragmenten: Handskriftsproduktion och boklig kultur i det medeltida Åbo stift", in Historisk Tidskrift för Finland 93:3 (2008), pp. 209–252.

"En grupp handskrifter från slutet av 1400-talet – från Nådendals scriptorium?", in Historisk Tidskrift för Finland 93:3 (2008), pp. 318–350.

"Varhaiskeskiaikainen hagiografia aatehistoriallisena lähteenä: esimerkkinä asenteet uniin", in Mirator 8:1 (2007), 1235. [PDF]

"The handling and interpretation of dreams and visions in late sixth- to eighth-century Gallic and Anglo-Latin hagiography and histories", in Early Medieval Europe 13:3 (2005), pp. 227–248.

"Kirkollinen ajattelu unista ja näyistä varhaiskeskiajan Länsi-Euroopassa",
in Historiallinen Aikakauskirja 1/2005, pp. 34–41.

"Eighth-Century Anglo-Latin Ecclesiastical Attitudes to Dreams and Visions",
in Ennen & nyt 4/2004. [HTML] [PDF]


Refereed chapters in books:
Hiippakunnan järjestäytymiskausi”, in Tuomas Heikkilä ed., Kirjallinen kulttuuri keskiajan Suomessa, Historiallisia tutkimuksia 254, Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seura: Helsinki 2010, 87–92.

Liturginen järjestäytyminen”, in Kirjallinen kulttuuri keskiajan Suomessa..., 92–104.

Pappien koulutus ja oppineen papiston kirjat”, in Kirjallinen kulttuuri keskiajan Suomessa..., 147–152, 155–181.

Seurakuntien ja seurakuntapappien kirjat”, in Kirjallinen kulttuuri keskiajan Suomessa..., 256–267.

Dominikaanit”, in Kirjallinen kulttuuri keskiajan Suomessa..., 267–277.

Liite 1: Turun hiippakunnassa kirjoitetut tai käytetyt keskiaikaiset käsikirjoitukset”, in Kirjallinen kulttuuri keskiajan Suomessa..., 417–427.

with Samu Niskanen, ”Disticha Catonis – fragmentteja luokkahuoneessa”, in Kirjallinen kulttuuri keskiajan Suomessa..., 153–154.


"The representations of emotions connected to dreams and visions in pre-Carolingian Continental and Anglo-Latin narratives", in Alaric Hall, Ágnes Kiricsi, Olga Timofeeva and Bethany Fox(eds) Interfaces Between Language and Culture in Medieval England, A Festschrift for Matti Kilpiö, The Northern World 48, Brill: 2010, 99–137.

Other publications:
FORTHCOMING: "Visions, Theory of (Medieval)", in Karla Pollman & Willemien Otten (eds) A Guide to the Historical Reception of St Augustine, Oxford University Press.

Granskning: ”Jan Brunius: Atque Olavi. Nordiska helgon i medeltida mässböcker”, Historisk Tidskrift för Finland 95:2 (2010), 307–310.


Annotation: "Laura Ashe: Fiction and History in England, 1066-1200", Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.

Annotation: "Mary Carruthers: The Book of Memory. A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture",
Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.

Annotation: "Laura Jose: Monstrous Conceptions. Sex, Madness and Gender in Medieval Medical Texts (Comparative Critical Studies 5:2-3)",
Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.

Annotation: "Francisco Alonso-Almeida: The Middle English Medical Charm. Register, Genre and Text Type Variables (Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 109:1)",
Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.

Annotation: "Alaric Hall: Calling the Shots. The Old English Remedy 'Gif hors of scoten sie' and Anglo-Saxon 'Elf-Shot' (Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 106:2)",
Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.

Annotation: "Julia Marvin: Havelok in the Prose 'Brut' Tradition (Studies in Philology 102:3)",
Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.

"Nikean toisen kirkolliskokouksen (787) vastaanotosta Kaarle Suuren hovissa", Skholion 1/2009.

Book review: "David Engels: Das römische Vorzeichenwesen (75327 v.Chr.). Quellen, Terminologie, Kommentar, historische Entwicklung", in Arctos 42 (2008).

Marko Lamberg, Jesse Keskiaho, Elina Räsänen, Olga Timofeeva, "Methods and the Medievalist", in Marko Lamberg, Jesse Keskiaho, Elina Räsänen, Olga Timofeeva with Leila Virtanen (eds) Methods and the Medievalist: Current Approaches in Medieval Studies, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle 2008, 1-10.

"Learned and Popular in Medieval Christianities? A note from the editor", in Mirator 9:1 (2008), i–iii. [PDF]

Book review: "N. J. Higham: (Re-) Reading Bede. The Ecclesiastical History in context", in Mirator 9:1 (2008), 78–81. [PDF]

Book review: "Rosamund McKitterick: Charlemagne. The Formation of an European Identity", in Mirator 9:1 (2008), 115–129. [PDF]

Annotation: "M. Teresa Tavormina: The Middle English Letter of Ipocras (English Studies 88:6)", Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.

Annotation: "Dean Swinford: Through the Daemon's Gate. Kepler's Somnium, Medieval Dream Narratives, and the Polysemy of Allegorical Motifs", Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.

Annotation: "N.J. Higham: (Re-)Reading Bede. The Ecclesiastical History in Context", Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.

Book review: "Julia M. H. Smith: Europe After Rome. A New Cultural History 500–1000", in Mirator 8:1 (2007), 94–101. [PDF]

Book review: "Michael Lapidge: The Anglo-Saxon Library" in Mirator 8:1 (2007), 79–84. [PDF]

"Koulujärjestelmät ja opettajat Itämeren piirissä myöhäiskeskiajalla", in Tuomas Heikkilä ed., Keskiaikaisen kosmopoliitin jäljillä. Johannes de Dulmen († 1420), (Helsingin yliopiston Historian laitoksen julkaisuja 21), Helsingin yliopiston Historian laitos: Helsinki 2007, 79102.

Annotation: "Michael Lapidge: The Anglo-Saxon Library", Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.

"Sibyllat idän ja lännen, antiikin ja keskiajan välissä", Skholion 1/2006, pp. 8–12.

Book review: "Pahuus ja yhteiskunnalliset normit: Jussi Hanska & Kirsi Salonen, Kirkko, kuri ja koulutus. Hengellisen säädyn moraalihistoriaa myöhäiskeskiajalla; Sari Katajala-Peltomaa & Raisa Maria Toivo (toim.), Paholainen, noituus ja magia – kristinuskon kääntöpuoli. Pahuuden kuvasto vanhassa maailmassa", in Historiallinen Aikakauskirja 3/2005, pp. 361–364.

Book review: "Krötzl, Christian: Pietarin ja paavalin nimissä. Paavit, lähetystyö ja Euroopan muotoutuminen (500–1250)", in Mirator tammikuu 2005. [PDF]

"Kirkon suhtautuminen uniin ja näkyihin varhaiskeskiajan Euroopassa (600–800)", in Glossae 1/2004. [HTML]

"Pyhän Birgitan matka pyhälle maalle (1371–73)", in Glossae 2/2003. [HTML]

Papers at conferences, &c.:

"Finnish Dominican manuscripts and manuscript fragments", Digital and Tangible. Medieval Book Culture and Modern Manuscript Studies, CMS, University of Bergen, 9.11.2010.

Book production in the monastery of Naantali", Book Culture from Below, SHARP Helsinki 2010, 19.8.2010.

"Dreams and Visions in the Opus Caroli regis contra synodum (Libri Carolini)", International Medieval Conference, Leeds, 13.7.2009.

"Dreams and the Discoveries of Relics in the Early Middle Ages. Some Observations Regarding the Influence of Revelatio Sancti Stephani", Relics. Creating Identity and Memory in the Middle Ages, an international seminar organised by the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae and the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom, Rome, 4-5.6, 2009.

"Observations on a Carolingian Reading of Augustine. The De Genesi ad litteram in Paris lat. 2112 (St. Amand, ca. 800)", The Heritage of Antiquity in the Middle Ages, an international seminar organised by the Finnish Literature Socity, the Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies (University of Bergen, Norway) and the Department of History at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 3.3.2009.

"Pyhät, yhdentekevät vai pahat kuvat? Nikean toisen kirkolliskokouksen (787) vastaanotto karolingisessa keisarikunnassa", Glossa ry:n ja Bysantintutkimuksen seuran seminaari, Helsinki  22.1.2008.

"Gregory the Great on Dreams", XVII Finnish Seminar for Late Antiquity, Tvärminne, 21.11.2008.

"Kirkkoisien lukemisesta varhaiskeskiajalla: Augustinuksen De Genesi ad litteram käsikirjoituksessa Paris BN lat. 2112", Dies Mediaevales, Tampere, 11.10.2008.

"The Formation and Reception of Gregory the Great's Theory on Dreams in the Early Middle Ages (500–900)", Culture and Society in Medieval Europe, Postgraduate Course, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen, 2.9.2008.

"The Transmission and Reception of St Augustine's Tripartite Theory of Vision, 500–850", International Medieval Conference, Leeds, 7.7.2008.

"Sibyllan kirjojen alkuperälegendasta", Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Rooma, 17.4.2008.

"Miten tutkia varhaiskeskiaikaisia käsityksiä unista?", Wanhojen aikojen tutkimusryhmä, Turun yliopisto, Turku, 6.3.2008.

"Augustinuksen näkyteoria ja sen vastaanotto karolingiaikaan mennessä", XVI Myöhäisantiikin seminaari, Tvärminne, 9.11.2007.

"Beyond Fragments: manuscript production and literary culture in the European Periphery?", The Expansion of Nordic Scribal Culture, ca. 1300–1500. Workshop on Parchment Fragments, Helsinki, 12.10.2007.

"The Formation and Reception of Gregory The Great's Theory on Dreams in the Early Middle Ages (600-900)", International Medieval Conference, Leeds, 11.7.2007.

"Varhaiskeskiaikainen hagiografia ja ihmekokoelmat aatehistoriallisena lähteenä: esimerkkinä asenteet uniin ja näkyihin", Dies Medievales, Jyväskylä, 12.10.2006.

"Emotions and Dreams in the Early Middle Ages: Theories and Representations", International Medieval Conference, Leeds, 12.7.2006.

"Thoughts on Dreams and Visions: Normative Views and their Uses in the Early Middle Ages (400-800)", Circolo medievistico romano, Rome, 20.6.2006.

"Visual Imagination: Observations on Early Medieval Theory and Practice." International Medieval Conference, Leeds, 13.7.2005.

"Attitudes Towards Dreams and Visions in Eighth-century Anglo-Latin Texts." Dies Medievales 2004, Helsinki, 14.8.

"King Ælfred’s genealogy: Familial Ideals and Political Aspirations." Mediaeval Symposium 27.1.2003, Department of English Philology and Translation, St. Petersburg State University.

Unpublished, but available on this site
Pyhän Birgitan matka Jerusalemiin
[Course Paper, 2003; in Finnish. Copyright 2003 Jesse Keskiaho]
Full name:
Jesse Miika Johannes Keskiaho.
Place and date of Birth:
Helsinki, September 13. 1979.

Married to Saila Keskiaho
Religion: Christian (Lutheran)
Education: FM (MA).
Occupation: Postgraduate student.
Military rank: Corporal of reserve. (FIN res. Alikersantti)
Languages: Finnish, English, Swedish, German, French, Latin and some Italian.
E-Mail:


Medieval Studies
Reti medievali
The Labyrinth
Bollandistes: Saints and History
KSBM-Wien Links für Handschriftenbearbeiter
Calendoscope
A. Cappelli: Dizionario de abbreviature latine ed italiani
Glossa ry.

The Bible / Exegesis
A Multilingual Biblical Search Engine
The Manuscript Transmission of
Carolingian Biblical Commentaries

Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi

Latin, Antiquity
Latin Library
Documenta Catholica Omnia
Early Church Fathers
Patrologia Latina Online
Sant'Agostino, Opera omnia
BREPOLiS
Perseus: Word Study Tool
Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts

Scandinavian
Diplomatarium Fennicum
Diplomatarium Norvegicum
Svensk Diplomatariums huvudkartotek
K.F. Söderwall: Ordbok öfver Svenska Medeltids-språket

Anglo-Saxon
A-S Bibliography (Simon Keynes)
Fontes Anglo-Saxonici
R. Sharpe: British Medieval Library Catalogues

Misc. projects and sites
Manuscripta Mediaevalia
Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis (CEEC)
E-codices. Virtuelle Handschriftenbibliothek der Schweiz
Medieval Parchment Fragments at Bergen University Library
The Dreams of Antiquity

A Repertoire of  Byzantine "Beneficial Tales"
Project Wulfila

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