The Conversion of Scandinavia
Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe
Anders Winroth(Author)
Yale University Press
Published on 24. January 2012
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-300-17026-9 (ISBN)
Description
In this book a MacArthur Award-winning scholar argues for a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious conquest and colonization of the region, Anders Winroth contends that rather than acting as passive recipients, Scandinavians converted to Christianity because it was in individual chieftains' political, economic, and cultural interests to do so. Through a painstaking analysis and historical reconstruction of both archaeological and literary sources, and drawing on scholarly work that has been unavailable in English, Winroth opens up new avenues for studying European ascendency and the expansion of Christianity in the medieval period.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Illustrations
24 black-&-white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-300-17026-9 (9780300170269)
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Person
Anders Winroth, professor of history at Yale, is the author of The Making of Gratian's Decretum, for which he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003.