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Orri
Vesteinsson.
The Christianization of Iceland - Priests, Power, and
Social
Change 1000-1300.
Oxford University
Press, 2000.
334pp.
Hardback
ISBN
0198207999.
Publisher's
recommended price £48.00
This
study investigates
the role played by the Christian church in the development of power
structures
in Iceland, from the conversion in AD 1000 to the end of the thirteenth
century. It demonstrates that by the time of the union with the
Norwegian
kingdom in 1262, fundamental constitutional changes had been brought
about
as a direct consequence of Christianization. Readership: Scholars and
students
of Medieval Europe and Scandinavia: of Christianity; of Cultural
Studies;
and of Archaeology. Scandinavian literary and language scholars.
Contents:
Introduction; I:
Prehistory: 1 The Conversion; 2 The Early Bishops: The Haukdoelir
and
Bishop Isleifr; 3 Early Evidence of Priests Some Eleventh Century
Priests;
4 Early Church Building: Proto-historic Evidence; The Archaeological
Evidence. II:
The First Christian Institutions: 5 The Idea of a Golden Age,
1080-1122:
St Jon Bishop Gizurr; 6 The Tithe Law of 1097; The Tithe Law: A
Revaluation
Church Economics Before the Tithe; Maintenance of Paupers: The Tithe
System
and the Commune Political and Economic effects of the Tithe. III:
Churches
and Property: 7 Churches in Narrative Sources; 8 The Charter
Evidence;
9 The Evidence of Legal Sources; 10 Private Churches; 11 Origins of
Religious
Houses. IV: The Bishops: 12 The Bishops and Family Politics; 13
Bishops as Chieftains; 14 Reform and Reaction. V: The Priests:
15
Shortage of Priests in the Twelfth Century; 16 Chieftain-Priests in the
Twelfth Century; 17 The Status of Priests according to the Old
Christian
Law Section; 18 Priesthood and Social Mobility; 19 The Shaping of
Clerical
Identity; Professional Skills; Scribes and Counsellors; Conciliation;
The
Case of Abbot Brandr Jonsson; Clerical Celibacy. VI: The Church and
the Increase of Social Complexity.
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