Ansgar Rimbert And The Forged Foundations Of Hamburg Bremen

Author : Eric Knibbs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317180548

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Ansgar, Rimbert and the Forged Foundations of Hamburg-Bremen by Eric Knibbs Pdf

Ansgar and Rimbert, ninth-century bishops and missionaries to Denmark and Sweden, are fixtures of medieval ecclesiastical history. Rare is the survey that does not pause to mention their work among the pagan peoples of the North and their foundation of an archdiocese centered at Hamburg and Bremen. But Ansgar and Rimbert were also clever forgers who wove a complex tapestry of myths and half-truths about themselves and their mission. They worked with the tacit approval-if not the outright cooperation-of kings and popes to craft a fictional account of Ansgar's life and work. The true story, very different from that found in our history books, has never been told: Ansgar did not found any archdiocese at all. Rather, the idea of Hamburg-Bremen only took root in the tenth century, and royal sponsorship of the mission to Denmark and Sweden ended with the death of Louis the Pious. This book couples detailed philological and diplomatic analysis with broader historical contextualization to overturn the consensus view on the basic reliability of the foundation documents and Rimbert's Vita Anskarii. By revising our understanding of Carolingian northeastern expansion after Charlemagne, it provides new insight into the political and ecclesiastical history of early medieval Europe.

Author : Eric Knibbs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317180555

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Ansgar, Rimbert and the Forged Foundations of Hamburg-Bremen by Eric Knibbs Pdf

Ansgar and Rimbert, ninth-century bishops and missionaries to Denmark and Sweden, are fixtures of medieval ecclesiastical history. Rare is the survey that does not pause to mention their work among the pagan peoples of the North and their foundation of an archdiocese centered at Hamburg and Bremen. But Ansgar and Rimbert were also clever forgers who wove a complex tapestry of myths and half-truths about themselves and their mission. They worked with the tacit approval-if not the outright cooperation-of kings and popes to craft a fictional account of Ansgar's life and work. The true story, very different from that found in our history books, has never been told: Ansgar did not found any archdiocese at all. Rather, the idea of Hamburg-Bremen only took root in the tenth century, and royal sponsorship of the mission to Denmark and Sweden ended with the death of Louis the Pious. This book couples detailed philological and diplomatic analysis with broader historical contextualization to overturn the consensus view on the basic reliability of the foundation documents and Rimbert's Vita Anskarii. By revising our understanding of Carolingian northeastern expansion after Charlemagne, it provides new insight into the political and ecclesiastical history of early medieval Europe.

Author : Daniel Melleno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040030776

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Franks and Northmen by Daniel Melleno Pdf

Franks and Northmen explores the full spectrum of Franco-Scandinavian interaction, examining not just violence but also less well-known relationships centered on acts of diplomacy, commerce, and mission and demonstrating the transformative nature of cross-cultural encounter during the Viking Age. In the year 777, the Frankish sources mention the Northmen, better known to most as the Vikings, for the first time. By the tenth century these Northmen, once a mysterious people on the borders of the Carolingian Empire, would be a familiar presence in the Frankish world. As raiders and pillagers, the Vikings would fill the pages of Frankish authors, leaving a legacy that continues to fascinate even to the twenty-first century. But a closer look at sources, both textual and material, reveals that the relationships between Franks and Northmen were far more complex and multifaceted than a rigid focus on Viking violence might suggest. Merchants carried goods across the North Sea, missionaries encouraged new ways of understanding the world, and Franks and Northmen formed relationships and bonds even amidst conflict and violence. This study is a useful resource for both students and specialists of central and northern Europe in the early medieval period.

Author : Joshua M. Cragle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000969214

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Converting the Saxons by Joshua M. Cragle Pdf

Utilizing a “crusading ethos,” from 772 to 804 AD, Charlemagne, King of the Franks, waged war against the continental Saxons to integrate them within the growing Frankish Empire and facilitate their conversion to Christianity. While substantial research has been produced concerning various components of Carolingian history, this work offers a unique examination of Charlemagne’s Saxon Wars as a case study for understanding methods of conversion used in the Christianization of Europe, as well as their significance for subsequent conversion strategies employed around the globe. Converting the Saxons builds on prior scholarly research, is grounded in primary sources, and is contextualized with a robust historical introduction. Throughout the text, particular emphasis is given to Christian encounters with paganism and the way paganism was interpreted, confronted, and transformed. Within those encounters, we observe myriad forces of coercion and incentivization used in societal religious conversion, demonstrating the need for a serious reconsideration of the standard narratives surrounding Christian missions. This book provides a scholarly and accessible resource for students and researchers interested in transhistorical methods of conversion, the history of Christianity, Early Medieval paganism, Colonial religious encounters, and the nature of religious conversion.

Author : Ingrid Rembold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107196216

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Conquest and Christianization by Ingrid Rembold Pdf

Re-evaluates the political integration and Christianization of Saxony following its violent conquest (772-804) by Charlemagne.

Author : David W. Kling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780199717590

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A History of Christian Conversion by David W. Kling Pdf

Conversion has played a central role in the history of Christianity. In this first in-depth and wide-ranging narrative history, David Kling examines the dynamic of turning to the Christian faith by individuals, families, and people groups. Global in reach, the narrative progresses from early Christian beginnings in the Roman world to Christianity's expansion into Europe, the Americas, China, India, and Africa. Conversion is often associated with a particular strand of modern Christianity (evangelical) and a particular type of experience (sudden, overwhelming). However, when examined over two millennia, it emerges as a phenomenon far more complex than any one-dimensional profile would suggest. No single, unitary paradigm defines conversion and no easily explicable process accounts for why people convert to Christianity. Rather, a multiplicity of factors-historical, personal, social, geographical, theological, psychological, and cultural-shape the converting process. A History of Christian Conversion not only narrates the conversions of select individuals and peoples, it also engages current theories and models to explain conversion, and examines recurring themes in the conversion process: divine presence, gender and the body, agency and motivation, testimony and memory, group- and self-identity, "authentic" and "nominal" conversion, and modes of communication. Accessible to scholars, students, and those with a general interest in conversion, Kling's book is the most satisfying and comprehensive account of conversion in Christian history to date; this major work will become a standard must-read in conversion studies.

Author : Richard North,Erin Goeres,Alison Finlay
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501513336

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Anglo-Danish Empire by Richard North,Erin Goeres,Alison Finlay Pdf

Anglo-Danish Empire is an interdisciplinary handbook for the Danish conquest of England in 1016 and the subsequent reign of King Cnut the Great. Bringing together scholars from the fields of history, literature, archaeology, and manuscript studies, the volume offers comprehensive analysis of England’s shift from Anglo-Saxon to Danish rule. It follows the history of this complicated transition, from the closing years of the reign of King Æthelred II and the Anglo-Danish wars, to Cnut’s accession to the throne of England and his consolidation of power at home and abroad. Ruling from 1016 to 1035, Cnut drew England into a Scandinavian empire that stretched from Ireland to the Baltic. His reign rewrote the place of Denmark and England within Europe, altering the political and cultural landscapes of both countries for decades to come.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015077515529

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The American Benedictine Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anders Winroth
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300178098

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The Conversion of Scandinavia by Anders Winroth Pdf

In this book a MacArthur Award-winning scholar argues for a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious conquest and colonization of the region, Anders Winroth contends that rather than acting as passive recipients, Scandinavians converted to Christianity because it was in individual chieftains' political, economic, and cultural interests to do so. Through a painstaking analysis and historical reconstruction of both archeological and literary sources, and drawing on scholarly work that has been unavailable in English, Winroth opens up new avenues for studying European ascendency and the expansion of Christianity in the medieval period.

Author : Knut Helle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521472997

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The Cambridge History of Scandinavia by Knut Helle Pdf

This volume presents a comprehensive exposition of both the prehistory and medieval history of the whole of Scandinavia. The first part of the volume surveys the prehistoric and historic Scandinavian landscape and its natural resources, and tells how man took possession of this landscape, adapting culturally to changing natural conditions and developing various types of community throughout the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. The rest - and most substantial part of the volume - deals with the history of Scandinavia from the Viking Age to the end of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (c. 1520). The external Viking expansion opened Scandinavia to European influence to a hitherto unknown degree. A Christian church organisation was established, the first towns came into being, and the unification of the three medieval kingdoms of Scandinavia began, coinciding with the formation of the unique Icelandic 'Free State'.

Author : Michel Aaij,Shannon Godlove
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004425132

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A Companion to Boniface by Michel Aaij,Shannon Godlove Pdf

A survey of the life, historical and political impacts, and textual sources associated with the early medieval English missionary and church reformer Boniface, who was active in the eighth century in what is today Germany, France, and the Netherlands.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8086023516

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The Cyril and Methodius Mission and Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Crina Archer
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780823251414

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Second Nature by Crina Archer Pdf

The essays collected here, by both eminent and emerging scholars, engage interlocutors from Machiavelli to Arendt. Individually, they contribute compelling readings of important political thinkers and add fresh insights to debates in areas such as environmentalism and human rights. Together, the volume issues a call to think anew about nature, not only as a traditional concept that should be deconstructed or affirmed but also as a site of human political activity and struggle worthy of sustained theoretical attention.

Author : Laura Ephraim
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812249811

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Who Speaks for Nature? by Laura Ephraim Pdf

Introduction. The Science Question in Political Theory -- Earth to Arendt -- Vico's World of Nature -- Descartes and Democracy -- Hobbes's Worldly Geometry of Politics -- Epilogue. Science and Politics at the End of the World

Author : Alexander Clarence Flick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 935792681X

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The Rise of the Mediaeval Church; And Its Influence on the Civilization of Western Europe from the First to the Thirteenth Century by Alexander Clarence Flick Pdf

The Rise of the Mediaeval Church; And Its Influence on the Civilization of Western Europe from the First to the Thirteenth Century, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.