The Christianization of Iceland
Subtitle: priests, power, and social change, 1000-1300
By: Orri Vésteinsson.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Social structure -- Iceland -- History -- To 1500.; Iceland -- Church history.
Description: "In this first historical study of high-medieval Iceland to be published in English, Orri Vesteinsson investigates the influence of the Christian church on the formation of the earliest state structures in Iceland, from the conversion in 1000 to the union with Norway in 1262"--Jacket.
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-286) and index.