Wandering Clerics and Mixed Rituals in the Early Christian North,c.1000–c.1150
Ildar H. Garipzanov
This article questions the traditional perception of early Christianisation in Scandinavia and Northern Rus' as processes separated by established confessional institutional boundaries. Surviving narrative sources mention a number clerical peregrinators crossing borders northern Europe post-conversion period, some contemporaneous baptismal rites from testify to their ability influence basic Christian rituals both regions. These phenomena suggest that differences between Catholic Orthodox Churches were no way preventing contacts across north eleventh first half twelfth century.
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History