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The Conversion Of Scandinavia
Anders Winroth
Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe
Yale University Press
February 2012
On Sale: January 24, 2012
256 pages ISBN: 0300170262 EAN: 9780300170269 Kindle: B006VV2O88 Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction History
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.
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