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The Church and Religious Life

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Fig. 28. Parish church on the island of Muhu (western Estonia), from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century. Photograph by Stanislav Stepashko.
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Fig. 29. Interior of St John’s parish church in Tartu. The building originally had . 2000 individually shaped terracotta sculptures, probably from the second half of the fourteenth century. Two-thirds were lost as a result of modernisation in the 1830s and major destruction in World War II. Restoration of the church was completed in 2005. Photograph by Stanislav Stepashko.
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Fig. 30. Interior of St Peter’s church, one of the two parish churches in medieval Riga. The excellent example of late medieval brick Gothic suffered greatly in World War II but was restored by the 1980s. Photograph by Stanislav Stepashko.
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Fig. 31. Embroidery with St Victor of Marseilles, patron saint of medieval Tallinn: detail of the table cover of the Tallinn town council, . 1500 (Tallinna Linnamuuseum). Photograph by Stanislav Stepashko.
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Fig. 32. Boss with the figure of St Olaf, . 1425 on the chancel vault of St. Olaf’s Church in Tallinn. Veneration of Scandinavian saints was especially notable in this Livonian town. Photograph by Stanislav Stepashko.
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Fig. 33. The second view of the main altarpiece of St Nicholas’ church in Tallinn with the legends of St Nicholas (left) and St Victor (right). Workshop of Hermen Rode, Lübeck, 1478–81 (Niguliste Muuseum, Tallinn). Photograph by Stanislav Stepashko.
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Fig. 34. Left side of the Dance of Death, late fifteenth century, attributed to the Lübeck master Bernt Notke. The extant fragment contains thirteen figures. The painting is documented in St Nicholas’s church of Tallinn from the early seventeenth century (Niguliste Muuseum, Tallinn). Photograph by Stanislav Stepashko.
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Fig. 35. Legends of St Elizabeth of Thuringia, details of the second view of the main altarpiece of the Holy Spirit church in Tallinn. Workshop of Bernt Notke, Lübeck, 1483. The altarpiece was commissioned by the town council. Photograph by Stanislav Stepashko.
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Fig. 35. Legends of St Elizabeth of Thuringia, details of the second view of the main altarpiece of the Holy Spirit church in Tallinn. Workshop of Bernt Notke, Lübeck, 1483. The altarpiece was commissioned by the town council. Photograph by Stanislav Stepashko.
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Fig. 36. Pilgrim badges of the Holy Blood relic from Riga excavated in Tallinn, second half of the fifteenth century (Tallinna Ülikooli arheoloogia teaduskogu). Photograph by Stanislav Stepashko.
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Fig. 37. Aerial view of the Pirita Brigittine convent. The massive church with the nuns’ cloister in the north and the friars’ rooms in the south was built in the first decades of the fifteenth century. It was situated on the seashore just behind the Tallinn border. The convent was destroyed by the Muscovite army in the 1570s. Photograph by Peeter Säre.
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Fig. 38. Relics from the Pirita Brigittine convent near Tallinn. The bones found during archaeological excavations date to the eleventh–twelfth centuries, the pieces of fabric to . 1390–1430 (Tallinna Linnamuuseum). Photograph by Stanislav Stepashko.
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Fig. 39. Silver chalice, early fourteenth century, Kaltene church (Latvia). Photograph by Ints Lūsis.
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Fig. 40. The village cemetery of Vaabina (South Estonia) on a high hummock was used in from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century. The dead were buried in a way characteristic for the region: men with the head towards the west, women in the opposite direction. Photograph by Heiki Valk.
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