Converting The Isles

Author : Roy Flechner,Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : British Isles
ISBN : 2503554628

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Converting the Isles by Roy Flechner,Máire Ní Mhaonaigh Pdf

Volume II : "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."--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : British Isles
ISBN : OCLC:1021288423

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Converting the Isles by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roy Flechner,Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 2503555047

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The Introduction of Christianity Into the Early Medieval Insular World by Roy Flechner,Máire Ní Mhaonaigh Pdf

Author : Roy Flechner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691184647

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Saint Patrick Retold by Roy Flechner Pdf

Saint Patrick was, by his own admission, a controversial figure. Convicted in a trial by his elders in Britain and hounded by rumors that he settled in Ireland for financial gain, the man who was to become Ireland's patron saint battled against great odds before succeeding as a missionary

Author : Nancy Edwards,Roy Flechner,Maire Ni Mhaonaigh
Publisher : Cultural Encounters in Late An
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 2503568688

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Transforming Landscapes of Belief in the Early Medieval Insular World and Beyond by Nancy Edwards,Roy Flechner,Maire Ni Mhaonaigh Pdf

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.

Author : Rob Wilson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674033434

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Be Always Converting, be Always Converted by Rob Wilson Pdf

Wilson's reconceptualization of the American project of conversion begins with the story of Henry 'Ōpūkaha'ia, the first Hawaiian convert to Christianity, torn from his Native Pacific homeland and transplanted to New England. Wilson argues that 'Ōpūkaha'ia's conversion is both remarkable and prototypically American.

Author : Mark Williams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691183046

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Ireland's Immortals by Mark Williams Pdf

A sweeping history of Ireland's native gods, from Iron Age cult and medieval saga to the Celtic Revival and contemporary fiction Ireland’s Immortals tells the story of one of the world’s great mythologies. The first account of the gods of Irish myth to take in the whole sweep of Irish literature in both the nation’s languages, the book describes how Ireland’s pagan divinities were transformed into literary characters in the medieval Christian era—and how they were recast again during the Celtic Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A lively narrative of supernatural beings and their fascinating and sometimes bizarre stories, Mark Williams’s comprehensive history traces how these gods—known as the Túatha Dé Danann—have shifted shape across the centuries. We meet the Morrígan, crow goddess of battle; the fire goddess Brigit, who moonlights as a Christian saint; the fairies who inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s elves; and many others. Ireland’s Immortals illuminates why these mythical beings have loomed so large in the world’s imagination for so long.

Author : Anders Winroth
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Jamie Gilham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781350084438

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The British Muslim Convert Lord Headley, 1855-1935 by Jamie Gilham Pdf

This is the first biography of Lord Headley, who made international headlines in 1913 when he defied convention by publicly converting to Islam. Drawing on previously unpublished archival sources, this book focuses on Headley's religious beliefs, conversion to Islam, and work as a Muslim leader during and after the First World War. Lord Headley slipped into obscurity following his death in 1935, but there is growing recognition globally that he is a pivotal figure in the history of Western Islam and Muslim-Christian relations; this book evaluates the strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures of the man and his work, and considers his significance for contemporary understandings of Islam in the Global West.

Author : Pierre Bontier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Canary Islands
ISBN : GENT:900000219906

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The Canarian, Or, Book of the Conquest and Conversion of the Canarians in the Year 1402, by Messire Jean de Bethencourt, Kt. ... by Pierre Bontier Pdf

Author : David Torkington
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781785350177

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Wisdom from the Western Isles by David Torkington Pdf

When he loses his son and his wife in childbirth James is totally bereft. An introduction to a hermit gradually changes his life irrevocably. Although the Hermit turns out to be a Roman Catholic, James finds he can completely identify with his profound spirituality, precisely because it is so scriptural and drawn from the same Christian Masters who had originally inspired him.

Author : Julia Grella O'Connell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317091530

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Sound, Sin, and Conversion in Victorian England by Julia Grella O'Connell Pdf

The plight of the fallen woman is one of the salient themes of nineteenth-century art and literature; indeed, the ubiquity of the trope galvanized the Victorian conscience and acted as a spur to social reform. In some notable examples, Julia Grella O’Connell argues, the iconography of the Victorian fallen woman was associated with music, reviving an ancient tradition conflating the practice of music with sin and the abandonment of music with holiness. The prominence of music symbolism in the socially-committed, quasi-religious paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their circle, and in the Catholic-Wagnerian novels of George Moore, gives evidence of the survival of a pictorial language linking music with sin and conversion, and shows, even more remarkably, that this language translated fairly easily into the cultural lexicon of Victorian Britain. Drawing upon music iconography, art history, patristic theology, and sensory theory, Grella O’Connell investigates female fallenness and its implications against the backdrop of the social and religious turbulence of the mid-nineteenth century.

Author : Patricia Terry,Samuel N. Rosenberg
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1567923240

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Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles Or, The Book of Galehaut Retold by Patricia Terry,Samuel N. Rosenberg Pdf

"The story of the passionate, adulterous, tragic love of Lancelot and Guenevere is at once the perfect expression of "courtly love" and its inversion. Lancelot, the superhuman stranger in King Arthur's court, sacrifices everything in service of his king, and yet also falls secretly in love with Arthur's queen, the most beautiful woman in all of Britain. That this spotless knight, who repeatedly saves Arthur and his world from destruction, should also be the fateful underminer of the king's self-confidence and, ultimately, a terrible weapon in the hands of Arthur's great adversary Galehaut, is a contradiction that has fascinated the Western mind for hundreds of years." "The Arthurian legend that most of us know comes from Malory and The Once and Future King. But there are also several books of Old French romance, the most detailed of which, the thirteenth-century "Book of Galehaut," gives a surprising and unfamiliar version. It is a double love story - the tale not only of Lancelot's love for Guenevere, but also the love of Galehaut, the Lord of the Distant Isles, for Lancelot. It is the achievement of Patricia Terry and Samuel N. Rosenberg, both seasoned translators of medieval romance, to tease out from the French sources the essential story of Lancelot, Guenevere, Galehaut, and Arthur, and, without distorting the original, retell it for today's reader. Their rich, subtle, and deeply moving narrative is complemented by evocative wood engravings by Judith Jaidinger, the most distinctive visual interpreter of Arthurian legend since Arthur Rackham and Howard Pyle."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : David C. Downing
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0830832718

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The Most Reluctant Convert by David C. Downing Pdf

An ECPA 2003 Gold Medallion Finalist!Listed inBooklist'sBest Adult Religion Books of the Year in 2002!His books have sold millions, including classics likeMere Christianity, The Screwtape LettersandThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.Yet C. S. Lewis was not always a literary giant of Christian faith. How did he leave behind a staunch atheism to become one of the most beloved and renowned Christian authors of our time?Other biographies of Lewis explore his childhood or his dramatic conversion to Christianity. But as David Downing reveals in this fascinating book, the rarely discussed period from Lewis's childhood to his early thirties took him on a tumultuous journey of spiritual and intellectual exploration before he became a "most reluctant convert." It was not despite this journey but precisely because of it that Lewis understood the search for life's ultimate meaning so well and went on to become one of the most compelling authors of the twentieth century. Weaving the people, places and events of Lewis's life together with excerpts from Lewis's own writing, Downing shows how Lewis's spiritual quest can also light the path for other seekers.

Author : Professor Ira Katznelson,Professor Miri Rubin
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472421517

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Religious Conversion by Professor Ira Katznelson,Professor Miri Rubin Pdf

Religious conversion - a shift in membership from one community of faith to another - can take diverse forms in radically different circumstances. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, conversion can be protracted or sudden, voluntary or coerced, small-scale or large. It may be the result of active missionary efforts, instrumental decisions, or intellectual or spiritual attraction to a different doctrine and practices. In order to investigate these multiple meanings, and how they may differ across time and space, this collection ranges far and wide across medieval and early modern Europe and beyond. From early Christian pilgrims to fifteenth-century Ethiopia; from the Islamisation of the eastern Mediterranean to Reformation Germany, the volume highlights salient features and key concepts that define religious conversion, particular the Jewish, Muslim and Christian experiences. By probing similarities and variations, continuities and fissures, the volume also extends the range of conversion to focus on matters less commonly examined, such as competition for the meaning of sacred space, changes to bodies, patterns of gender, and the ways conversion has been understood and narrated by actors and observers. In so doing, it promotes a layered approach that deepens inquiry by identifying and suggesting constellations of elements that both compose particular instances of conversion and help make systematic comparisons possible by indicating how to ask comparable questions of often vastly different situations.