Lesley Abrams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3832857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesley Abrams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Abrams |
| SIGNATURE | ABRAMS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Locations of Religious Encounter
This article examines the process of conversion to Christianity of Scandinavians who left their homelands in the ninth and tenth centuries and settled in Christian societies in the West. The churches that were involved left us no accounts, but fragments of evidence ranging from papal letters to stone sculpture help to construct a picture of diversity, wherever routes to conversion can be glimpsed across this Scandinavian diaspora. Two contrasting…
Christian Cooijmans, Monarchs and hydrarchs
Vikings in the South
Ann Christys has provided a tremendous service to students of the Viking Age with this short book, which aims to integrate viking activity in the South with the much better known theatres of war and peaceful exchange in western Europe, Byzantium, and the East. Christys’s knowledge of early medieval Iberia and its Arabic writers, Latin charters and Romance chronicles is not shared by most students of the viking world, and her study is a very welco…
Diaspora and identity in the Viking Age
This article investigates the implications of the recent application of the term ‘diaspora’ to the overseas settlements of the Viking Age and offers a speculative assessment, based on literary, historical, archaeological, sculptural and onomastic evidence, of how the concept might contribute to our understanding of the cultural dynamics of the period. This exploratory look at connectivity in the ‘viking world’ considers the respective roles of th…
Early Religious Practice in the Greenland Settlement
While the beginnings of Christianity in Greenland are very poorly recorded, the settlement has played a prominent role in the discussion of paganism, the conversion, and early Christianity in the Viking world, thanks to the sagas in which Greenlanders feature. In particular, the range of religious practice that is reflected in the literary representations of the past is very striking; the rituals of the seeress, Thorbjorg, the Christian practice …
The Cambridge History of Christianity
The key focus of this book is the vitality and dynamism of all aspects of Christian experience from late antiquity to the First Crusade. By putting the institutional and doctrinal history firmly in the context of Christianity's many cultural manifestations and lived formations everywhere from Afghanistan to Iceland, this volume of The Cambridge History of Christianity emphasizes the ever-changing, varied expressions of Christianity at both local …
Anglo-Saxon England in Icelandic Medieval Texts . Magnús Fjalldal
The North Sea World in the Middle Ages
Alfred the Great
Bibliography for 1995
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Iron Age Communities in Britain
The Anglo-Saxons and the Christianization of Scandinavia
St Anskar, a monk of Corbie and Corvey, is often referred to as the ‘Apostle of the North’. In 826 he was attached to the retinue of Harald, king of Denmark, upon the king's baptism at the court of Louis the Pious; Anskar was sent to evangelize first the Danes, who were an increasing threat to the northern border of the Empire, and then the Swedes of the Mälar region, whose rulers may have hoped for imperial favour. If the mission of Anskar and h…
Bibliography for 1994
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Bibliography for 1993
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The Romanization of Britain
Roman Britain
The second edition of a collection of archaeological, numismatic, epigraphic and other evidence for the history of Roman rule, including extracts from the writings of Tacitus, Dio Cassius, Bede and Gildas
From Roman Britain to Saxon England
Diaspora and identity in the Viking Age
This article investigates the implications of the recent application of the term ‘diaspora’ to the overseas settlements of the Viking Age and offers a speculative assessment, based on literary, historical, archaeological, sculptural and onomastic evidence, of how the concept might contribute to our understanding of the cultural dynamics of the period. This exploratory look at connectivity in the ‘viking world’ considers the respective roles of th…
The Anglo-Saxons and the Christianization of Scandinavia
St Anskar, a monk of Corbie and Corvey, is often referred to as the ‘Apostle of the North’. In 826 he was attached to the retinue of Harald, king of Denmark, upon the king's baptism at the court of Louis the Pious; Anskar was sent to evangelize first the Danes, who were an increasing threat to the northern border of the Empire, and then the Swedes of the Mälar region, whose rulers may have hoped for imperial favour. If the mission of Anskar and h…
Early Religious Practice in the Greenland Settlement
While the beginnings of Christianity in Greenland are very poorly recorded, the settlement has played a prominent role in the discussion of paganism, the conversion, and early Christianity in the Viking world, thanks to the sagas in which Greenlanders feature. In particular, the range of religious practice that is reflected in the literary representations of the past is very striking; the rituals of the seeress, Thorbjorg, the Christian practice …
From Roman Britain to Saxon England
Roman Britain
The second edition of a collection of archaeological, numismatic, epigraphic and other evidence for the history of Roman rule, including extracts from the writings of Tacitus, Dio Cassius, Bede and Gildas
The Romanization of Britain
Bibliography for 1993
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The Anglo-Saxons and the Christianization of Scandinavia
St Anskar, a monk of Corbie and Corvey, is often referred to as the ‘Apostle of the North’. In 826 he was attached to the retinue of Harald, king of Denmark, upon the king's baptism at the court of Louis the Pious; Anskar was sent to evangelize first the Danes, who were an increasing threat to the northern border of the Empire, and then the Swedes of the Mälar region, whose rulers may have hoped for imperial favour. If the mission of Anskar and h…
Bibliography for 1994
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Bibliography for 1995
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Iron Age Communities in Britain
Alfred the Great
The North Sea World in the Middle Ages
Anglo-Saxon England in Icelandic Medieval Texts . Magnús Fjalldal
The Cambridge History of Christianity
The key focus of this book is the vitality and dynamism of all aspects of Christian experience from late antiquity to the First Crusade. By putting the institutional and doctrinal history firmly in the context of Christianity's many cultural manifestations and lived formations everywhere from Afghanistan to Iceland, this volume of The Cambridge History of Christianity emphasizes the ever-changing, varied expressions of Christianity at both local …
Early Religious Practice in the Greenland Settlement
While the beginnings of Christianity in Greenland are very poorly recorded, the settlement has played a prominent role in the discussion of paganism, the conversion, and early Christianity in the Viking world, thanks to the sagas in which Greenlanders feature. In particular, the range of religious practice that is reflected in the literary representations of the past is very striking; the rituals of the seeress, Thorbjorg, the Christian practice …
Diaspora and identity in the Viking Age
This article investigates the implications of the recent application of the term ‘diaspora’ to the overseas settlements of the Viking Age and offers a speculative assessment, based on literary, historical, archaeological, sculptural and onomastic evidence, of how the concept might contribute to our understanding of the cultural dynamics of the period. This exploratory look at connectivity in the ‘viking world’ considers the respective roles of th…
Vikings in the South
Ann Christys has provided a tremendous service to students of the Viking Age with this short book, which aims to integrate viking activity in the South with the much better known theatres of war and peaceful exchange in western Europe, Byzantium, and the East. Christys’s knowledge of early medieval Iberia and its Arabic writers, Latin charters and Romance chronicles is not shared by most students of the viking world, and her study is a very welco…
Christian Cooijmans, Monarchs and hydrarchs
Locations of Religious Encounter
This article examines the process of conversion to Christianity of Scandinavians who left their homelands in the ninth and tenth centuries and settled in Christian societies in the West. The churches that were involved left us no accounts, but fragments of evidence ranging from papal letters to stone sculpture help to construct a picture of diversity, wherever routes to conversion can be glimpsed across this Scandinavian diaspora. Two contrasting…
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