Hi Brian! Thanks for the lovely comment and for watching. There's SO much good research on this topic and how it played out. Anders' book is great and there's another, which you've probably seen but just in case, called The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe AD 300 - 1300. It's an edited volume with some very good essays/chapters in it. I regularly assign to my university students the one titled "The Politics of Conversion in North Central Europe," by Polish scholar Przemysław Urbańczyk. It's a great break down of elements of both the pagan and Christian systems in contrast to argue why the politics of it but also the overwhelming formality and structure of Christianity simply overpowered the Old Ways over time. ~Terri
Excellent! John Ott was my thesis advisor (well, one of them) for my graduate degree. He is a very close friend to this day. I also teach my Viking History course at PSU.
Hi Brian! Thanks for the lovely comment and for watching. There's SO much good research on this topic and how it played out. Anders' book is great and there's another, which you've probably seen but just in case, called The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe AD 300 - 1300. It's an edited volume with some very good essays/chapters in it. I regularly assign to my university students the one titled "The Politics of Conversion in North Central Europe," by Polish scholar Przemysław Urbańczyk. It's a great break down of elements of both the pagan and Christian systems in contrast to argue why the politics of it but also the overwhelming formality and structure of Christianity simply overpowered the Old Ways over time. ~Terri
Excellent! John Ott was my thesis advisor (well, one of them) for my graduate degree. He is a very close friend to this day. I also teach my Viking History course at PSU.