Christian Identity Formation Across the Elbe in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
Publisher: Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781433184314
Subjects: Christianity
Description: "This book addresses the conversion of the Wends, and how Christian writers of the tenth and eleventh centuries perceived the submission of the Wends to the Christian faith. The main concern of the ecclesiastical authorities was to bring the apostate Wends back into the imperium Christianum.: everyone who had accepted Christian baptism had to be prevented by all possible means from religious and political apostasy. More widely, the formation of a Christian identity is an excellent example of how conversion was a fluid set of propositions, discussed and rehearsed, influenced by many factors (not just canonical), and deployed in many contexts. This book's task is to unravel how this dynamism played out against a marginal group"--