Sari Katajala-Peltomaa is Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences at Tampere University, Finland. She specialises in late medieval hagiography and especially in canonisation processes. Her publications include Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe (2020).

Raisa Maria Toivo is Professor at Tampere University and the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences at Tampere University, Finland. She specialises in history of early modern religion, gender, family and court records. Her publications include Faith and Magic in Early Modern Finland (2016).

This study is an exploration of lived religion and gender across the Reformation, from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Combining conceptual development with empirical history, the authors explore these two topics via themes of power, agency, work, family, sainthood, and witchcraft.

1 Introduction to medieval and early modern experiences of gender and faith 2 Lived religion and lived gender in family life 3 Gender in public devotion 4 Spirituality, sinfulness, and gender 5 Conclusions: structures of experiencing gender and religion from the medieval to the early modern period