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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Europe, Scandinavia, and Hallfred the Skald
  • The dynamic eighth century : Scandinavia comes of age
  • The raids of the Vikings
  • The power of gifts
  • Carving out power
  • Weland, Ulfberht, and other artisans
  • The lure of the exotic
  • Networks of trade
  • The story of conversion
  • Writing conversion
  • The gift of Christianity
  • Kings of god's grace
  • Scandinavia in European history.

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