The parables of Jesus as media of collective memory / Ruben Zimmerman -- Social groups, personal relations, and the making of communities in Medieval vita monastica / Christina Lutter -- Writing a life : the 'family book' by Bartolomeo Dal Bovo / Paolo Perantoni -- Knowledge making and authorization strategies / Ane Ohrvik -- Making sense of Europe / Anne Eriksen -- How to create political meaning in public spaces? / Jörg Rogge -- Making sense of autocracy / Jan Kusber -- The dissemination of news in early modern Venice / Simone Lonardi -- Political information and religious skepticism in early modern Italy / Federico Barbierato -- How to read a Renaissance fool / Anu Korhonen -- Sixteenth-century classifications of passions and their historical contexts / Alessandro Arcangeli -- Making sense of illness / Marjo Kaartinen -- Making sense of the confinement of the poor / Eivind Engebretsen -- Making sense of diabetes / Cay-Rüdiger Prüll.