My goodness! Yes! I wish I had had the opportunity to take part in this. Barely eleven minutes in, the discussion is about what my research shows. It was primarily a top-down; it was not a religious movement when it began, primarily, and yes, indeed, it was a state/monarchy development as it was mainly about politics, power, and the creation of unification. I cannot express how exciting this is! I thanked my professor/advisor for sending this to me as I am developing a syllabus on this topic. Thank you for taking the time to address my research topic! Love it!
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
Wonderful! I will look into the books you mention. I cannot express how exciting it was to see this for me and that my professor/advisor forwarded it to me, which is excellent. Incidentally, my professor is the one you mention, Dr. John Ott at Portland State University. The subject of my M.A. is the conversion and unification of Norway and Scandinavia in general. I start the last term here in a few days.
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.
My goodness! Yes! I wish I had had the opportunity to take part in this. Barely eleven minutes in, the discussion is about what my research shows. It was primarily a top-down; it was not a religious movement when it began, primarily, and yes, indeed, it was a state/monarchy development as it was mainly about politics, power, and the creation of unification. I cannot express how exciting this is! I thanked my professor/advisor for sending this to me as I am developing a syllabus on this topic. Thank you for taking the time to address my research topic! Love it!
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
Hi Terri!
Wonderful! I will look into the books you mention. I cannot express how exciting it was to see this for me and that my professor/advisor forwarded it to me, which is excellent. Incidentally, my professor is the one you mention, Dr. John Ott at Portland State University. The subject of my M.A. is the conversion and unification of Norway and Scandinavia in general. I start the last term here in a few days.
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.
Ott is mine as well. Why have I not heard of your course here at PSU? I would have jumped right into it. I live on campus in the Epler dorms.