The conversion of Scandinavia [electronic resource] : vikings, merchants, and missionaries in the remaking of Northern Europe / Anders Winroth.

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Winroth, Anders

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.Description: xi, 238 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:

9780300170269 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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948/.022 23

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Summary: "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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Materials specified	Status
E-Book	Reformational Study Centre General library	948.022 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe	Available

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-228) and index.

"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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