www.medievalbookshop.co.uk
Bargain books on the Middle Ages and all related subjects
Contact by email or post & phone
Carole M. Cusack.
Conversion Among the Germanic Peoples.
London: Cassell, 1998.
Cassell Religious Studies series.
ISBN 0304701556;
ISBN-13: 9780304701551.
Hardback, perfect bound; printed boards, issued without dustjacket.
156x239x20mm.
x,214pp.
English.
Unused bargain.This item £35.00
[Publisher's price £80.00]
466g.This book is the same as the paperback titled The Rise of Christianity in Northern Europe, 300-1000.
The book is a study of the process of Christian conversion among the Germanic peoples from the third to the eleventh centuries. The intention is twofold: first, to examine previous scholarship on conversion and to develop a model of conversion appropriate to the Germanic peoples; and second, to produce a comparative study of six Germanic conversions.
Chapter 1 reviews the existing models of conversion developed by scholars in a number of fields, principally psychology, anthropology and religious studies, and develops an alternative model. This model explores the cognitive and social structures of pre-Christian Germanic society, highlights the roles and motivations of the agents of mission and traditional secular and religious leaders, validates the spiritual dimension of corporate decision-making in religious transitions, and accounts for the indigenization of Christianity by the Germanic peoples. Chapters 2 to 7 are case studies which apply this model to the conversions of the Goths, Franks, Anglo-Saxons, continental Saxons, Scandinavians, and Icelanders, revealing a fundamentally common process but with local variations. The final chapter presents the insights gained from the case studies.
Related pages: | Church history |
See the "book descriptions" page for explanations of the criteria used in this listing.
Return to used books index page
Use these scrollbars to navigate the attic...
You need javascript switched on for these scrollbars to work. If they don't, there's a full set of links at the bottom of this page.
Primary sources anthologies | anononymous | facsimile | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Secondary sources journals & partworks | author unknown | exhibition guides & ephemera | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | Mc | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Reference books Reference index | general reference | bibliographies | biographical dictionaries | catalogues: auctions | catalogues: exhibitions | catalogues: museums & collections | chronology & dating | genealogy & heraldry | guides & gazetteers | lexical: concordances, dictionaries, glossaries | maps & atlases | medievalism | name & place-name studies | pass notes & study guides | numismatics
Medievalism main page | general non-fiction | reference books | biography & autobiography | travelogues | arcana | folklore | arts and crafts | kid's books | fiction | poetry | drama | humour
Other stuff browse by subject | browse by publisher | browse by series | gift books | kids' stuff | incomplete sets | shop returns | signed copies | unused bargains | useful non-medieval | new books (with Amazon links)
Site search
(Fluid Dynamics)
medievalbookshop
Other frequently asked questions
Books
How to find what you're looking for
How the book descriptions work
Information pages
The small print