TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mihai Dragnea
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2694-555X
SN  - 9781433184512
TI  - Christian Identity Formation Across the Elbe in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
DO  - 10.3726/b17977
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1059441
N2  - 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.
LA  - English
ER  -