Church History, Volume 2 (of 3)

Chapter 2: NOTE BY TRANSLATOR.

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The volume traces Christian expansion across northern and eastern Europe between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, examining missionary strategies, political motivations, and ecclesiastical organization. It shows how missionaries, military force, royal conversions, monasteries, and episcopal foundations shaped conversion in Scandinavia, the Slavic lands, Hungary, the Baltic, and beyond, while local pagan customs often persisted beneath nominal Christianity. Tensions between imperial efforts to bind new churches to German metropolitans and papal aims to establish independent national sees are highlighted. The work also surveys outreach toward Mongol, Islamic, and Baltic pagan populations and introduces the crusading movement.

NOTE BY TRANSLATOR.

While the translator was working from the ninth edition of 1885, a tenth edition had appeared during 1887, to which unfortunately his attention was not called until quite recently. The principal additions and alterations affecting Vol. II. occur in §§ 98, 108, 119, and 147. On the section dealing with Anabaptism, the important changes have been made in the text, so that § 147 precisely corresponds to its latest and most perfect form in the original. As the printing of the volume was then far advanced, it was impossible thus to deal with the earlier sections, but students will find references in the Table of Contents to the full translation in the Appendix of those passages where material alterations have been introduced.

John Macpherson.

Findhorn, March, 1889.