Christianizing Peoples and Converting Individuals
G. Armstrong,
I. N. Wood (eds.)
X+352 p., incl. 34 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2001
ISBN: 978-2-503-51087-3
Languages: English
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The selected essays in this volume
deal with the subject of conversion across the full chronological,
geographical and religious expanse of medieval Europe and central
Asia.
The special theme of the 1997
International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds produced
more than one hundred contributions. The special strand organiser,
Prof. Ian Wood, selected and solicited twenty-eight papers in order to
produce this most comprehensive treatment on the subject of conversion
across the full chronological, geographical and religious expanse of
medieval Europe and central Asia.
The contributions comprise:
J. M. Bak; Signs of conversion in laws
R. Berman Brown and S. McCartney; Living in limbo: the experience
of Jewish converts in medieval England
M. Casey; Conversion as depicted on the fourteenth-century Tring
tiles
W. von Egmond; Converting monks: missionary activity in early
medieval Frisia and Saxony
U. Engel; The "conversion" of King John and its
consequences for the architectural history of Worcester
cathedral
M. Evans; Marriage as a means of conversion in Pierre Duboiss De
Recuperatione Terre Sancte
M.-L. Favreau-Lilie; The conversion of the Finns - a reappraisal of
the archaeological record
A.-S. Gräslund; New perspectives on an old problem: Uppsala and the
Christianization of Sweden
Z. Hunyadi; Signs and symbols of conversion, I. The written
sources: Charters
H. Janson; Adam of Bremen and the conversion of Scandinavia Anna
Kuznetsova, Signs of conversion in Vitae sanctorum
D. Mowbray; "Conversio ad bonum commutabile": Augustinian
language of "conversion" in medieval theology
B. Nilsson; Early Christian burials in Sweden
T. S. Noonan; Why orthodoxy did not spread among the Bulgars of the
Crimea during the early medieval era: an early Byzantine conversion
model
P. O'Brien; Platonism and Plagiarism at the end of the Middle
Ages
W. Pohl; Deliberate ambiguity: the Lombards and
Christianity
P. Quinn; Aquinas, the intellect and divine
enlightenment
B. Ravid; The forced baptism of Jews in medieval England
Review
"This is a stimulating and
absorbing volume!" (C. M. Cusack in
Parergon, p.253-254)
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