UID:
almafu_9961023277602883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 588 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-280-54600-X
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9786610546008
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1-84615-058-2
Content:
37 studies of the adoption of Christianity across northern Europe over1000 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.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Mar 2023).
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THE CROSS GOES NORTH -- THE CROSS GOES NORTH -- Contents -- Plates -- Figures -- Processes of Conversion -- Introduction: Northern Europeans Negotiate their Future -- The Politics of Conversion in North Central Europe -- 'How do you pray to God?' Fragmentation and Variety in Early Medieval Christianity -- Into Celtic Lands -- Processes of Conversion in North-west Roman Gaul -- Roman Britain, a Failed Promise -- Where are the Christians? Late Roman Cemeteries in Britain -- Votive Deposits and Christian Practice in Late Roman Britain -- Basilicas and Barrows: Christian Origins in Wales and Western Britain -- A Landscape Converted: Archaeology and Early Church Organisation on Iveragh and Dingle, Ireland -- Romanitas and Realpolitik in Cogitosus' Description of the Church of St Brigit, Kildare -- Making a Christian Landscape: Early Medieval Cornwall -- Early Medieval Parish Formation in Dumfries and Galloway -- Christian and Pagan Practice during the Conversion of Viking Age Orkney and Shetland -- Christianity and the English -- Anglo-Saxon Pagan and Early Christian Attitudes to the Dead -- The Adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon Royal Courts to Christianity -- The Control of Burial Practice in Anglo-Saxon England -- The Straight and Narrow Way: Fenland Causeways and the Conversion of the Landscape in the Witham Valley, Lincolnshire -- Three Ages of Conversion at Kirkdale, North Yorkshire -- The Confusion of Conversion: Streanæshalch, Strensall and Whitby and the Northumbrian Church -- Design and Meaning in Early Medieval Inscriptions in Britain and Ireland -- Spaces Between Words: Word Separation in Anglo-Saxon Inscriptions -- Sacraments in Stone: The Mysteries of Christ in Anglo-Saxon Sculpture -- Alcuin's Narratives of Evangelism: The Life of St Willibrord and the Northumbrian Hagiographical Tradition.
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Pagans and Christians at a Frontier: Viking Burial in the Danelaw -- The Body of St Æthelthryth: Desire, Conversion and Reform in Anglo-Saxon England -- From the Alps to the Baltic -- From a Late Roman Cemetery to the in Bonn, Germany -- The Cross Goes North: From Late Antiquity to Merovingian Times South and North of the Alps1 -- The Cross Goes North: Carolingian Times between Rhine and Elbe -- The Cross Goes North: Christian Symbols and Scandinavian Women -- The Role of Scandinavian Women in Christianisation: The Neglected Evidence -- Runestones and the Conversion of Sweden -- Christianity, Politics and Ethnicity in Early Medieval Jämtland, Mid Sweden -- The Scandinavian Animal Styles in Response to Mediterranean and Christian Narrative Art -- The Role of Secular Rulers in the Conversion of Sweden -- Byzantine Influence in the Conversion of the Baltic Region? -- St Botulph: An English Saint in Scandinavia -- Christianisation in Estonia: A Process of Dual-Faith and Syncretism -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-903153-11-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781846150586
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781846150586/type/BOOK
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