Les Racines chrétiennes de l’Europe: Conversion et liberté dans les royaumes barbares Ve–VIIIe siècle. By Bruno Dumézil
The departure point for Dumézil's study is what he terms the ‘paradox’ of the conversion of the Germanic peoples to Nicene Christianity. Why did the religion of the conquered Romans become the religion of the conquering barbarians? Although his choice of terms is slightly at odds with much of t...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 331-333 |
| Review of: | Les racines chrétiennes de l'Europe (Paris : Fayard, 2005) (Hendrix, Julian)
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| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | The departure point for Dumézil's study is what he terms the ‘paradox’ of the conversion of the Germanic peoples to Nicene Christianity. Why did the religion of the conquered Romans become the religion of the conquering barbarians? Although his choice of terms is slightly at odds with much of the recent work rethinking the relations between Romans and the groups he characterizes as barbarians, such as that resulting from the ‘Transformation of the Roman World’ research programme, much of his treatment of the evidence is informed by this work, drawing significantly upon German and English in addition to French historiography. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm012 |