Cross Goes North (eBook)

Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300

Martin Carver (Herausgeber)

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2002
605 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84615-058-6 (ISBN)

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37 studies of the adoption of Christianity across northern Europe over 1000 years, and the diverse reasons that drove the process.In Europe, the cross went north and east as the centuries unrolled: from the Dingle Peninsula to Estonia, and from the Alps to Lapland, ranging in time from Roman Britain and Gaul in the third and fourth centuries to the conversion of peoples in the Baltic area a thousand years later. These episodes of conversion form the basic narrative here. History encourages the belief that the adoption of Christianity was somehow irresistible, but specialists show theunderside of the process by turning the spotlight from the missionaries, who recorded their triumphs, to the converted, exploring their local situations and motives. What were the reactions of the northern peoples to the Christian message? Why would they wish to adopt it for the sake of its alliances? In what way did they adapt the Christian ethos and infrastructure to suit their own community? How did conversion affect the status of farmers, of smiths, of princes and of women? Was society wholly changed, or only in marginal matters of devotion and superstition? These are the issues discussed here by thirty-eight experts from across northern Europe; some answers come from astute re-readings of the texts alone, but most are owed to a combination of history, art history and archaeology working together. MARTIN CARVER is Professor of Archaeology, University of York.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.11.2002
• Co-Autor: Paul S Barnwell, Jane Hawkes, John Higgitt, Catherine E. Karkov, Christoph Keller, Jeremy Knight, Linn Lager, Audrey Meaney, Michael Muller-Wille, Tomas O'Carragain, Elisabeth Okasha, James Barrett, Philippa Patrick, Susan Pearce, David Petts, Philip Rahtz, Kate Rambridge, Julian Richards, Alexandra Sanmark, Christopher Sparey-Green, Jorn Staecker, David Stocker, Per Beskow, John Toy, Sam Turner, Przemyslaw Urbanczyk, Heiki Valk, Carol Neuman de Vegvar, Lorna Watts, Stig Welinder, Nancy L. Wicker, Barbara Yorke, Volker Bierbrauer, Lawrence Butler, Chris Crowe, Paul Everson, Helen Geake, Anne-Sofie Graslund
• Zusatzinfo: 37 b/w, 106 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: adaptation of Christian ethos • Alliances • Christianity adoption • christian message • conversion process • Cultural Change • Farmers • Northern Europe • northern peoples' reactions • princes • Smiths • Society • Women
• ISBN-10: 1-84615-058-2 / 1846150582
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84615-058-6 / 9781846150586