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Informationen zum Autor Nora Berend is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Cambridge. Klappentext This is the first comparative! interdisciplinary analysis of one of the most fundamental stages in the formation of Europe. Leading scholars explore the role of the spread of Christianity and the formation of new principalities in the birth of Denmark! Norway! Sweden! Bohemia! Hungary! Poland and Rus' around the year 1000. Drawing on history! archaeology and art history! and emphasizing problems related to the sources and historiographical debates! they demonstrate the complex interdependence between the processes of religious and political change! covering conditions prior to the introduction of Christianity! the adoption of Christianity! and the development of the rulers' power. Regional patterns emerge! highlighting both the similarities in ruler-sponsored cases of Christianization! and differences in the consolidation of power and in the use made of institutions introduced by Christianity. The essays reveal how local societies adopted Christianity and medieval ideas of what constituted the dividing line between Christians and non-Christians. Zusammenfassung This 2007 book offers an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of one of the most fundamental stages in the formation of Europe. This study of Christianization and the formation of new polities in Scandinavia! Central Europe and Rus' highlights regional patterns! as well as local specificities and differences. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Nora Berend; 2. From paganism to Christianity in medieval Europe Robert Bartlett; 3. The kingdom of Denmark Michael H. Gelting; 4. The kingdom of Norway Sverre Bagge and Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide; 5. The kingdom of Sweden Nils Blomkvist, Stefan Brink and Thomas Lindkvist; 6. Bohemia and Moravia Petr Sommer, Dušan T¿eštík, Josef Žemli¿ka (with additional contribution by Zoë Opäíc); 7. The kingdom of Poland, with an appendix on Polabia and Pomerania between paganism and Christianity Przemyslaw Urbäczyk and Stanislaw Rosik; 8. The kingdom of Hungary Nora Berend, József Laszlovszky and Béla Zsolt Szakács; 9. Rus' Jonathan Shepard; Index....
