Foreword

Anu Mänd (PhD) is Professor of Art History at the University of
Tartu. Her main fields of research are social and cultural history of
late medieval and early modern Baltic Sea region. She is the author of
Urban Carnival: Festive Culture in the Hanseatic Cities of the Eastern Baltic,
1350–1550 (Brepols, 2005), Kirikute hõbevara: Altaririistad keskaegsel
Liivimaal (Muinsuskaitseamet, 2008), Keskaegsed altarid ja retaablid
(Muinsuskaitseamet, 2019), and several other books. Co-edited
volumes include Images and Objects in Ritual Practices in Medieval
and Early Modern Northern and Central Europe (Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2013), Symbolic Identity and the Cultural Memory of Saints
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018), Making Livonia: Actors and
Networks in the Medieval and Early Modern Baltic Sea Region (Routledge,
2020), and Baltic Human-Animal Histories: Relations, Trading, and
Representations (Peter Lang, 2024).