The conversion of Scandinavia : vikings, merchants, and missionaries in the remaking of Northern Europe /

"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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Winroth, Anders
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012.
Temas:
Vikings > Commerce > History.
Economics > Religious aspects > Christianity > History.
Vikings > Religion.
Conversion > Christianity.
Vikings > Commerce > Histoire.
Conversion > Christianisme.
RELIGION > Christian Church > History.
HISTORY > Europe > Scandinavia.
RELIGION > Christian Church > Growth.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Commerce.
Economic history.
Economics > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Religion.
Vikings > Commerce.
Handel
Christianisierung
Skandinavien > historia.
Handel.
Scandinavia > Commerce > History.
Scandinavia > Economic conditions.
Scandinavia > Religion > History.
Scandinavia.
Skandinavien
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 238 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-228) and index.
ISBN:9780300178098
0300178093

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