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The Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe

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The Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe - Winroth, Anders, Dr.
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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 ...

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The Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe 2014, Yale University Press, New Haven

ISBN-13: 9780300205534

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The Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe 2012, Yale University Press, New Haven

ISBN-13: 9780300170269

Hardcover