TY  - BOOK
AU  - Winroth,Anders
TI  - The conversion of Scandinavia: vikings, merchants, and missionaries in the remaking of Northern Europe 
SN  - 9780300170269 (hbk. : alk. paper)
U1  - 948/.022 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Vikings
KW  - Commerce
KW  - History
KW  - Economics
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Religion
KW  - Conversion
KW  - Scandinavia
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Church / History
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Church / Growth
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-228) and index
N2  - "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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