Research Catalog

Title

Converting the Isles. II, Transforming landscapes of belief in the early medieval insular world and beyond / edited by Nancy Edwards, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Roy Flechner.

Publication

• Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Edwards, Nancy
• Flechner, Roy, 1975-
• Ní Mhaonaigh, Máire

Description

xx, 526 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

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'.

Series Statement

Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages ; volume 23

Uniform Title

Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages ; v. 23.

Alternative Title

Transforming landscapes of belief in the early medieval insular world and beyond

Subject

• Conversion > Christianity > History > To 1500
• Missions > British Isles > History > To 1500
• British Isles > Religious life and customs
• British Isles > Church history > To 1500

Note

• Research undertaken by contributors to the Converting the Isles Research Network (2011-2013) funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 18-2963

ISBN

• 9782503568683
• 2503568688

OCLC

953981311

Title

Converting the Isles. II, Transforming landscapes of belief in the early medieval insular world and beyond / edited by Nancy Edwards, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Roy Flechner.

Publisher

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages ; volume 23

Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages ; v. 23.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Edwards, Nancy, editor.

Flechner, Roy, 1975- editor.

Ní Mhaonaigh, Máire, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-2963