Christianizing peoples and converting individuals / edited by Guyda Armstrong & Ian N. Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Armstrong, Guyda, editor.

Wood, Ian N., editor.

Series:

International Medieval Research

International Medieval Research ; Volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Title; Contents; Introduction; The Life of St Nino: Georgia's Conversion to its Female Apostle; Why Orthodoxy Did Not Spread among the Bulgars of the Crimea during the Early Medieval Era: An Early Byzantine Conversion Model; Some Historical Re-identifications and the Christianization of Kent; Converting Monks: Missionary Activity in Early Medieval Frisia and Saxony; Deliberate Ambiguity: The Lombards and Christianity; New Perspectives on an Old Problem: Uppsala and the Christianization of Sweden; Early Christian Burials in Sweden; Adam of Bremen and the Conversion of Scandinavia

Approaches to the Conversion of the Finns: Ideologies, Symbols, and Archaeological FeaturesSigns of Conversion in Early Medieval Charters; Signs of Conversion in Central European Laws; Signs of Conversion in Vitae sanctorum; Conversion in Chronicles: The Hungarian Case; Mission to the Heathen in Prussia and Livonia: The Attitudes of the Religious Military Orders toward Christianization; The Forced Baptism of Jews in Christian Europe: An Introductory Overview; Living in Limbo: The Experience of Jewish Converts in Medieval England

Marriage As a Means of Conversion in Pierre Dubois's De recuperatione Terre SancteMission et frontière dans l'espace Méditerranéen: Tentatives d'une société guerrière pour la propagation de la foi; The Conversion Stories of Shaykh AbuIsh.a-q Ka-zaru-n (963-1033); To Baptize Khans or to Convert Peoples? Missionary Aims; in Central Asia in the Fourteenth Century; Cum hora undecima: The Incorporation of Asia into the orbis Christianus; St Thomas Aquinas's Theory of Conversion; Aquinas, the Intellect, and Divine Enlightenment

Conversio ad bonum commutabile: Augustinian Language of 'Conversion' in Medieval TheologyConverting the Other and Converting the Self: Double Objectives in; Franciscan Educational Writings; Platonism and Plagiarism at the End of the Middle Ages; The 'Conversion' of King John and its Consequences for Worcester Cathedral; Conversion As Depicted on the Fourteenth-Century Tring Tiles; Plates

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

2-503-53792-8

2-503-52628-4

OCLC:

437178324