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The cross goes north : processes of conversion in northern Europe, AD 300-1300 / edited by Martin Carver.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : York Medieval Press ; Rochester, NY : Boydell and Brewer, 2003.Description: xiv, 588 p. : illus., maps ; pbk ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1903153115 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 274.8/CRO
Contents:
Introduction: Northern Europeans negotiate their future / Martin Carver -- The politics of conversion in North Central Europe / Przemyslaw Urbańczyk -- 'How do you pray to God?' : fragmentation and variety in early Medieval Christianity / Aleksander Pluskowski and Philippa Patrick -- Processes of conversion in North-west Roman Gaul / Susan M. Pearce -- Roman Britain, a failed promise / William H.C. Frend -- Where are the Christians? late Roman cemeteries in Britain / Christopher Sparey-Green -- Votive deposits and Christian practice in Late Roman Britain / David Petts -- Basilicas and barrows: Christian origins in Wales and Western Britain / Jeremy Knight -- A landscape converted: archaeology and early church organisation on Iveragh and Dingle, Ireland / Tomás Ó Carragáin -- Romanitas and Realpolitik in Cogitosus' description of the Church of St Brigit, Kildare / Carol Neuman de Vegvar -- Making a Christian landscape: early Medieval Cornwall / Sam Turner -- Early Medieval parish formation in Dumfries and Galloway / Christopher Crowe -- Christian and pagan practice during the conversion of Viking Age Orkney and Shetland / James H. Barrett -- Anglo-Saxon pagan and early Christian attitudes to the dead / Audrey L. Meaney -- The adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon royal courts to Christianity / Barbara Yorke -- The control of burial practice in middle Anglo-Saxon England / Helen Geake -- The straight and narrow way: Fenland causeways and the conversion of the landscape in the Witham Valley, Lincolnshire / David Stocker and Paul Everson -- Three ages of conversion at Kirkdale, North Yorkshire / Philip Rahtz and Lorna Watts -- The confusion of conversion: Streanaeshalch, Strensall and Whitby and the Northumbrian church / P.S. Barnwell, L.A.S. Butler and C.J. Dunn -- Design and meaning in early Medieval inscriptions in Britain and Ireland / John Higgitt -- Spaces between words: word separation in Anglo-Saxon inscriptions / Elisabeth Okasha -- Sacraments in stone: the mysteries of Christ in Anglo-Saxon sculpture / Jane Hawkes -- Alcuin's narratives of evangelism: the life of St Willibrord and the Northumbrian hagiographical tradition / Kate Rambridge -- Pagans and Christians at a frontier: Viking burial in the Danelaw / Julian D. Richards -- The body of St AEthelthryth: desire, conversion and reform in Anglo-Saxon England / Catherine E. Karkov -- From a late Roman cemetery to the Basilica Sanctorum Cassii et Florentii in Bonn, Germany / Christoph Keller -- The cross goes north: from late antiquity to Merovingian times South and North of the Alps / Volker Bierbrauer -- The cross goes north: Carolingian times between Rhine and Elbe / Michael Müller-Wille -- The cross goes north: Christian symbols and Scandinavian women / Jörn Staecker -- The role of Scandinavian women in Christianisation: the neglected evidence / Anne-Sofie Gräslund -- Runestones and the conversion of Sweden / Linn Lager -- Christianity, politics and ethnicity in early Medieval Jämtland, Mid Sweden / Stig Welinder -- The Scandinavian animal styles in response to Mediterranean and Christian narrative art / Nancy L. Wicker -- The role of secular rulers in the conversion of Sweden / Alexandra Sanmark -- Byzantine influence in the conversion of the Baltic Region? / Per Beskow -- St Botulph: an English saint in Scandinavia / John Toy -- Christianisation in Estonia: a Process of dual-faith and syncretism / Heiki Valk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Northern Europeans negotiate their future / Martin Carver --
The politics of conversion in North Central Europe / Przemyslaw Urbańczyk --
'How do you pray to God?' : fragmentation and variety in early Medieval Christianity / Aleksander Pluskowski and Philippa Patrick --
Processes of conversion in North-west Roman Gaul / Susan M. Pearce --
Roman Britain, a failed promise / William H.C. Frend --
Where are the Christians? late Roman cemeteries in Britain / Christopher Sparey-Green --
Votive deposits and Christian practice in Late Roman Britain / David Petts --
Basilicas and barrows: Christian origins in Wales and Western Britain / Jeremy Knight --
A landscape converted: archaeology and early church organisation on Iveragh and Dingle, Ireland / Tomás Ó Carragáin --
Romanitas and Realpolitik in Cogitosus' description of the Church of St Brigit, Kildare / Carol Neuman de Vegvar --
Making a Christian landscape: early Medieval Cornwall / Sam Turner --
Early Medieval parish formation in Dumfries and Galloway / Christopher Crowe --
Christian and pagan practice during the conversion of Viking Age Orkney and Shetland / James H. Barrett --
Anglo-Saxon pagan and early Christian attitudes to the dead / Audrey L. Meaney --
The adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon royal courts to Christianity / Barbara Yorke --
The control of burial practice in middle Anglo-Saxon England / Helen Geake --
The straight and narrow way: Fenland causeways and the conversion of the landscape in the Witham Valley, Lincolnshire / David Stocker and Paul Everson --
Three ages of conversion at Kirkdale, North Yorkshire / Philip Rahtz and Lorna Watts --
The confusion of conversion: Streanaeshalch, Strensall and Whitby and the Northumbrian church / P.S. Barnwell, L.A.S. Butler and C.J. Dunn --
Design and meaning in early Medieval inscriptions in Britain and Ireland / John Higgitt --
Spaces between words: word separation in Anglo-Saxon inscriptions / Elisabeth Okasha --
Sacraments in stone: the mysteries of Christ in Anglo-Saxon sculpture / Jane Hawkes --
Alcuin's narratives of evangelism: the life of St Willibrord and the Northumbrian hagiographical tradition / Kate Rambridge --
Pagans and Christians at a frontier: Viking burial in the Danelaw / Julian D. Richards --
The body of St AEthelthryth: desire, conversion and reform in Anglo-Saxon England / Catherine E. Karkov --
From a late Roman cemetery to the Basilica Sanctorum Cassii et Florentii in Bonn, Germany / Christoph Keller --
The cross goes north: from late antiquity to Merovingian times South and North of the Alps / Volker Bierbrauer --
The cross goes north: Carolingian times between Rhine and Elbe / Michael Müller-Wille --
The cross goes north: Christian symbols and Scandinavian women / Jörn Staecker --
The role of Scandinavian women in Christianisation: the neglected evidence / Anne-Sofie Gräslund --
Runestones and the conversion of Sweden / Linn Lager --
Christianity, politics and ethnicity in early Medieval Jämtland, Mid Sweden / Stig Welinder --
The Scandinavian animal styles in response to Mediterranean and Christian narrative art / Nancy L. Wicker --
The role of secular rulers in the conversion of Sweden / Alexandra Sanmark --
Byzantine influence in the conversion of the Baltic Region? / Per Beskow --
St Botulph: an English saint in Scandinavia / John Toy --
Christianisation in Estonia: a Process of dual-faith and syncretism / Heiki Valk.

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