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The Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe

By Anders Winroth

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
0300205538, 9780300205534
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (13050178 bytes)
Pages
256\253
Time added
2017-04-03 03:40:12
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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 archeological 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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