Cross and Scepter: The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation

Christianity and European-style monarchy–the cross and the scepter–were introduced to Scandinavia in the tenth century, a development that was to have profound implications for all of Europe. Cross and Scepter is a concise history of the Scandinavian kingdoms from the age of the Vikings to the Reformation, written by Scandinavia’s leading medieva