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The Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300205534)
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xIn 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.
Author: Anders Winroth
ISBN-10: 0300205538
ISBN-13: 9780300205534
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/07/2014
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d
By Anders Winroth
xAnders Winroth, the Forst Family 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.
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