Anders Winroth's The Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe, Yale University Press, 2012 (ISBN 9780300170269), is a critical synthesis of Scandinavia's Christianization across Denmark, Norway and Iceland. Winroth argues Scandinavian rulers and chieftains adopted Christianity for real political, economic and cultural reasons of their own rather than as passive recipients of missionary pressure, and treats the Jelling stone's own famous claim, that Harald Bluetooth made the Danes Christian around 965, as a royal political statement rather than a settled description of a completed popular conversion. Independently verified against the publisher's own listing and academic review notices (American Historical Review, The Medieval Review) of the same title and year.
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Major university press academic monograph, the standard modern synthesis on this topic, independently reviewed in the American Historical Review and The Medieval Review under the same title, author, publisher and year; used for Denmark's Jelling-stone claim of circa 965, Norway's conversion under Olaf Tryggvason (reigned 995 to 1000), and Iceland's Althing decision of 999 or 1000, treated honestly as three genuinely distinct national processes rather than one collapsed event. NotesUsed for the Christianization of Denmark, Norway and Iceland across the later tenth century.
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AuthorAnders Winroth
PublisherYale University Press
Publication Year2012
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names Denmark directly: "Scandinavia's Christianization across Denmark, Norway and Iceland."
Source The Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern EuropeAnders Winroth
This source names Europe directly: "in the Remaking of Northern Europe, Yale University Press, 2012 (ISBN 9780300170269), is a critical synthesis of Scandinavia's Christianization across Denmark, Norway and Iceland."
Source The Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern EuropeAnders Winroth
This source names Iceland directly: "across Denmark, Norway and Iceland."
Source The Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern EuropeAnders Winroth
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