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Author : Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide
Release : 2011
Genre : Archaeology and religion
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Book Synopsis The Viking Age as a Period of Religious Transformation by : Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide
Download or read book The Viking Age as a Period of Religious Transformation written by Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 70 b/w illus, 14 b/w tbls, 14 b/w line art
Author : Saebjorg Walaker Nordeide
Release : 2012
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Book Synopsis The Viking Age as a Period of Religious Transformation by : Saebjorg Walaker Nordeide
Download or read book The Viking Age as a Period of Religious Transformation written by Saebjorg Walaker Nordeide. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anders Winroth
Release : 2012-01-24
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Conversion of Scandinavia by : Anders Winroth
Download or read book The Conversion of Scandinavia written by Anders Winroth. This book was released on 2012-01-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Ildar H. Garipzanov
Release : 2014
Genre : Christianity and other religions
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Book Rating : 248/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Conversion and Identity in the Viking Age by : Ildar H. Garipzanov
Download or read book Conversion and Identity in the Viking Age written by Ildar H. Garipzanov. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a state-of-the-art collection of essays on the socio-cultural aspects of the conversion to Christianity in Viking-Age Scandinavia and the Scandinavian colonies of the North Atlantic. The nine scholars, drawn from the disciplines of history, archaeology, and literary studies, have been brought together to address the overarching topic of how conversion affected peoples' identities - both as individuals, and as members of broader religious, political, and social groups - on either side of the 'divide' between paganism and Christianity. Central to this exploration is the question of how existing and changing identities shaped the progress of conversion as a process of societal, and more specifically cultural, change. Each of the papers in this volume provides examples of the complicated patterns of interaction, influence, and identity-modification that were characteristic of the transition from paganism to Christianity in the Viking world. The authors look for new ways of understanding and describing this gradual intermingling between the two fuzzy-edged religious communities, and they provide a challenging redefinition of the nature of conversion in the Viking Age that will be of interest both to a wide variety of medievalists and to all those who work on conversion in its theoretical and historical aspects.
Author : Benjamin Wilson
Release : 2022
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Book Synopsis Religious Conversion and Political Legitimacy in Viking-Age Denmark by : Benjamin Wilson
Download or read book Religious Conversion and Political Legitimacy in Viking-Age Denmark written by Benjamin Wilson. This book was released on 2022. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Norse paganism provided Scandinavians with a religion, societal structure, and set of values. Beginning with the legendary kings of Denmark, Scandinavian rulers used religious belief for their own agenda. The process of conversion to Christianity was remembered in sagas and histories describing the Viking Age, the period of Scandinavian expansion from the ninth to twelfth centuries. As the Vikings converted to Christianity, the process was recorded in several sagas and histories. Conversion to Christianity took more than a century, depending on the region and élites, but echoes of non-Christian belief continued for centuries in both historical and literary texts.
