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

by Anders Winroth

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300205538
• ISBN13: 9780300205534
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"