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Middle Age Saint Statues in Finland (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "POSTER Session 3: Material Culture and Site Studies" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Lately Finnish people have been very interested about middle age and how people lived then. Church was very important in middle age. In medieval sculpture, the human figure was central. Sculpture and saint statues are not really church art, but their size and shape varied according to purpose. Usually the statues were also painted...