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The Viking Age ended when Vikings became successful enough to be absorbed into European nobility, Christianized, and turned into protectors of the same powers they had pressured.
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CO Optation
He argues that Christianity grew by marrying itself to power through strict hierarchy, allowing it to be co-opted by the power elite.
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He argues that Christianity grew by marrying itself to power through strict hierarchy, allowing it to be co-opted by the power elite.
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"So, the structure of your military determined the structure of your political system. So, the Europeans purposely did not respond to Viking threat because..."
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"And, as Christians, they would convert their own followers and their own people as well. Remember, the spread of religion is usually a top..."
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"Prolific. Which meant that he wrote a lot of books. It's possible he wrote hundreds of thousands of pages. And his two most famous..."
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A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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