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CHRISTIANIZING PEOPLES AND CONVERTING INDIVIDUALS INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL RESEARCH Volume 7 Editorial Board Axel E. W. Müller, Alan V. Murray, Peter Meredith, & Ian N. Wood with the assistance of the IMC Programming Committee CHRISTIANIZING PEOPLES AND CONVERTING INDIVIDUALS Edited by Guyda Armstrong & Ian N. Wood H F British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Christianizing peoples and converting individuals. – (International medieval research ; 7) 1. Conversion – Christianity – History – To 1500 2. Evangelistic work – History – To 1500 3. Church history – Middle Ages, 600-1500 4. Europe – Church history – 600- 1500 I. Armstrong, Guyda II. Wood, Ian, 1950- 270.3 ©©©© 2222000000000000,,,, BBBBrrrreeeeppppoooollllssss PPPPuuuubbbblllliiiisssshhhheeeerrrrssss nnnn....vvvv....,,,, TTTTuuuurrrrnnnnhhhhoooouuuutttt,,,, BBBBeeeellllggggiiiiuuuummmm All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher. D/2000/0095/88 ISBN 2-503-51087-6 Printed in the E.U. on acid-free paper. Contents Introduction ix IAN N. WOOD The Early Medieval East The Life of St Nino: 3 Georgia’s Conversion to its Female Apostle EVA M. SYNEK Why Orthodoxy Did Not Spread among the Bulgars 15 of the Crimea during the Early Medieval Era: An Early Byzantine Conversion Model THOMAS S. NOONAN The Early Medieval West Some Historical Re-identifications 27 and the Christianization of Kent IAN N. WOOD Converting Monks: Missionary Activity 37 in Early Medieval Frisia and Saxony WOLFERT VAN EGMOND Deliberate Ambiguity: 47 The Lombards and Christianity WALTER POHL The Conversion of Scandinavia New Perspectives on an Old Problem: 61 Uppsala and the Christianization of Sweden ANNE-SOFIE GRÄSLUND Early Christian Burials in Sweden 73 BERTIL NILSSON Adam of Bremen and the Conversion of Scandinavia 83 HENRIK JANSON Approaches to the Conversion of the Finns: 89 Ideologies, Symbols, and Archaeological Features DEREK FEWSTER The Conversion of Central and Eastern Europe Signs of Conversion in Early Medieval Charters 105 ZSOLT HUNYADI Signs of Conversion in Central European Laws 115 JÁNOS M. BAK Signs of Conversion in Vitae sanctorum 125 ANNA KUZNETSOVA Conversion in Chronicles: The Hungarian Case 133 LÁSZLÓ VESZPRÉMY Mission to the Heathen in Prussia and Livonia: 147 The Attitudes of the Religious Military Orders Toward Christianization MARIE-LUISE FAVREAU-LILIE The Conversion of the Jews The Forced Baptism of Jews in Christian 157 Europe: An Introductory Overview BENJAMIN RAVID Living in Limbo: The Experience of 169 Jewish Converts in Medieval England REVA BERMAN BROWN & SEAN MCCARTNEY Crusade and Conversion in the Mediterranean Region Marriage As a Means of Conversion in 195 Pierre Dubois’s De recuperatione Terre Sancte MICHAEL R. EVANS Mission et frontière dans l’espace Méditerranéen: 203 Tentatives d’une société guerrière pour la propagation de la foi LUDWIG VONES Competing Faiths in Asia: Muslims, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Mongols The Conversion Stories of 225 Shaykh Abu Ishaq Kazaruni NEGUIN YAVARI To Baptize Khans or to Convert Peoples? 247 Missionary Aims in Central Asia in the Fourteenth Century JAMES D. RYAN Cum hora undecima: The Incorporation 259 of Asia into the orbis Christianus FELICITAS SCHMIEDER The Theology of Conversion St Thomas Aquinas’s Theory of Conversion 269 PATRICK QUINN Aquinas, the Intellect, and Divine Enlightenment 277 PATRICK QUINN Conversio ad bonum commutabile: 283 Augustinian Language of ‘Conversion’ in Medieval Theology DONALD MOWBRAY Converting the Other and Converting the Self: 295 Double Objectives in Franciscan Educational Writings BERT ROEST Platonism and Plagiarism 303 at the End of the Middle Ages PETER O’BRIEN Conversion in Art The ‘Conversion’ of King John and its 321 Consequences for Worcester Cathedral UTE ENGEL Conversion As Depicted on the 339 Fourteenth-Century Tring Tiles MARY CASEY Introduction IAN N. WOOD T he anniversary of Augustine’s arrival in Kent in 597, and the subsequent christianization of England, made conversion an obvious theme for the 1997 International Medieval Congress. It was also a theme which attracted massive interest, and not just from early medievalists interested in the christianization of England and its near-contemporary parallels. Indeed, if anything Augustine’s mission was underrepresented in the considerable number of papers dealing with conversion and christianization. If the Anglo-Saxons, and indeed the West Germanic peoples, were underrepresented, the Early Middle Ages were present in a number of papers concerned with Central and Eastern Europe—and as far east as Georgia. In addition, interest in the Baltic region took this aspect of the christianization of Europe well into the fourteenth century. Papers on these regions constitute a good proportion of the present volume, and they provide a very useful point of entry into work currently being done on christianization in areas which are less well known to most historians than is Western Europe—not least because of the range of languages involved. At the same time, interest in christianization and conversion in later periods of the Middle Ages was fully apparent in numerous papers. Two issues predominated: one was the interface between Christians and Muslims—in Spain and in the Holy Land—and also between Christians and Jews—once again in Spain, but also in England, and more generally in Western Europe. The other was the rather more theological question of the nature of conversion, as discussed by Aquinas, and in Franciscan writings. In deciding to devote a volume of the IMR series to the topic of conversion, we also decided to make that volume as wide-ranging as possible. Limitations of space meant x IAN N. WOOD that certain topics had to be excluded—and there was a decision to concentrate on historical approaches to the topic, which meant leaving aside, with regret, a number of essentially literary studies. Within those limitations, however, we have been able to gather together a considerable range of papers. Chronologically they begin in the early fourth century with the christianization of Georgia, and they stretch to missions to Asia almost exactly a millennium later. Quite apart from the chronological range, the different types of questions posed and materials used are a fascinating indication of the different interpretations of the topic to be found among specialists in different fields. Christianization, as a process affecting complete peoples, or at least large groups, attracts attention, as does conversion of the individual. By putting these varying approaches together, we hope we have given some indication of the range of current work on christianization and conversion history—and that the range itself, quite apart from the individual studies, will prove to be an eye-opener.
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