Silence of the gods : the untold history of Europe's last pagan peoples /
A masterful new history of Europe's last unchristianized peoples in the period between 1387 and 1900, from the Sámi of northern Fennoscandia to the Balts and the Finno-Ugric peoples of European Russia, exploring the reasons for their late adoption of Christianity and their creative religious re...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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| Summary: | A masterful new history of Europe's last unchristianized peoples in the period between 1387 and 1900, from the Sámi of northern Fennoscandia to the Balts and the Finno-Ugric peoples of European Russia, exploring the reasons for their late adoption of Christianity and their creative religious responses to encounters with missionaries. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 456 pages, [16] pages of color plates ; illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-411)and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781009586573 1009586572 |