Professor Kivimäe teaches in the Department of History. He is interested in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe, focusing on economic, social and cultural history of the Baltic sea region and especially on medieval Livonia. He has published in the fields of Hanseatic trade, history of Lutheran Reformation, everyday life and late medieval urban history (Aspects of Daily Life in Medieval Estonia, 1966), national historiography and modern Estonia (Tallinn in Fire. Soviet Air-Raid to Tallinn in March 1944, 1966). He is currently working on a history of culture of writing and printed books in sixteenth-century Estonia.
Department of History
PhD (Inst. of History, Estonian Academy of Sciences)
Sidney Smith Hall, Room 2056
tel: (416) 946-0970
email: jkivimae@chass.utoronto.ca
Area of Research
Fifteenth and sixteenth-century Europe, focusing on economic, social and cultural history of the Baltic sea region and especially on medieval Livonia.
Selected publications
Women, the Devil, and a Cat’s Head: the Trial of Anna and Tobbe Mall in Reval, 1594 (2003)
Tallinn in Fire. Soviet Air-Raid to Tallinn in March 1944 (1997)
Aspects of Daily Life in Medieval Estonia, 1996