The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300Martin Carver Boydell Press, 2005 - 588 sider 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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The Politics of Conversion in North Central Europe | 15 |
How do you pray to God? Fragmentation and Variety | 29 |
Processes of Conversion in Northwest Roman Gaul | 61 |
Roman Britain a Failed Promise | 89 |
Votive Deposits and Christian Practice in Late Roman Britain | 109 |
Archaeology and Early Church | 127 |
Romanitas and Realpolitik in Cogitosus Description of the Church | 153 |
Early Medieval Cornwall | 171 |
The Alfred Jewel now in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford | 342 |
The Mysteries of Christ in AngloSaxon | 351 |
The Life of St Willibrord | 371 |
Desire Conversion and Reform | 397 |
From a Late Roman Cemetery to the Basilica Sanctorum Cassii | 415 |
From Late Antiquity to Merovingian Times | 429 |
Carolingian Times between Rhine and Elbe | 443 |
Christian Symbols and Scandinavian Women | 463 |
Early Medieval Parish Formation in Dumfries and Galloway | 195 |
AngloSaxon Pagan and Early Christian Attitudes to the Dead | 229 |
The Adaptation of the AngloSaxon Royal Courts to Christianity | 243 |
The Control of Burial Practice in middle AngloSaxon England | 259 |
Three Ages of Conversion at Kirkdale North Yorkshire | 289 |
Streanæshalch Strensall and Whitby | 311 |
Design and Meaning in Early Medieval Inscriptions in Britain | 327 |
The Neglected | 483 |
Runestones and the Conversion of Sweden | 497 |
The Scandinavian Animal Styles in Response to Mediterranean | 531 |
The Role of Secular Rulers in the Conversion of Sweden | 551 |
An English Saint in Scandinavia | 565 |
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