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Terese Zachrisson

Researcher

Department of Historical Studies
Mail
terese.zachrisson@gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Terese Zachrisson

My research revolves around worldviews, everyday life, and religious practices in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era. My current project explores drunkenness in early modern Swedish peasant society, where I investigate how various local communities handled the challenges presented by the changed drinking patterns of the Early Modern Era. 

My previous research has focused on religious culture, and I've been especially interested in aspects related to materiality and spatiality. Two examples of phenomena that I have dealt with extensively in my research are traditions related to holy wells and the post-Reformation use of medieval saints' sculptures. I earned my Ph.D. in 2017, with the thesis Mellan fromhet och vidskepelse: Materialitet och religiositet i det efterreformatoriska Sverige (Devotion and Superstition: Religion and Materiality in Post-Reformation Sweden). 2019–2024 I worked in a digital history project funded by the Swedish Research Council. In this project, we mapped and analysed saints' cults in the medieval Swedish ecclesiastical province, and built the online resource Mapping Saints (https://saints.dh.gu.se). 

Since 2020 I teach medieval and early modern history at the Department of Historical Studies.