Transforming Landscapes of Belief in the Early Medieval Insular World and Beyond
Converting the Isles II
Edited by Nancy Edwards Edited by Maire Ni Mhaonaigh Edited by Roy Flechner
This volume explores and analyses the effects of religious conversion on landscapes of cult and on literary practice in Europe c. AD 350-1100, focusing in particular on Britain and Ireland
Conversion to Christianity is arguably the most revolutionary social and cultural change that Europe experienced throughout Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Christianization affected all strata of society and transformed not only religious beliefs and practices, but also the nature of government, the priorities of the economy, the character of kinship, and gender relations. It is against this backdrop that an international array of leading medievalists gathered under the auspices of the Converting the Isles Research Network (funded by the Leverhulme Trust) to investigate social, economic, and cultural aspects of conversion in the early medieval Insular world, covering different parts of Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, and Iceland. This volume analyses the effects of religious conversion on landscapes of cult and on religious practice in Europe, focusing in particular on Britain and Ireland. Adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, the volume investigates the interaction between different forms of belief, their coexistence and competition. It discusses the coming of writing, the power of the word, landscapes of ritual, and converting communities. The contributors include leading historians, archaeologists, linguists, and literary scholars. This is the second volume to emerge from research undertaken by contributors to the Converting the Isles Research Network and forms a companion volume to The Introduction of Christianity into the Early Medieval Insular World.
- Edited by Nancy Edwards
- Edited by Maire Ni Mhaonaigh
- Edited by Roy Flechner
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Carolingian Scholarship and Martianus Capella
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Writing ‘True Stories’
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Les transferts culturels dans les mondes normands medievaux (VIIIe-XIIe siecle)
objets, acteurs et passeurs
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De la destruction a la restauration
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Volume 3
From Sun-Day to the Lord’s Day
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Historiography and Identity V
The Emergence of New Peoples and Polities in Europe, 1000-1300
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Between Personal and Institutional Religion
Self, Doctrine, and Practice in Late Antique Eastern Christianity
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De Sion exibit lex et verbum domini de Hierusalem
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