ABSTRACT
Everything discussed earlier has had something to do with centre and periphery, which is not so strange if one lives as a Dane in modern-day Europe. However, it has also been an attempt to depict a fluid, changeable world where the wars of kings and noblemen surged back and forth for generations while they themselves crossed back and forth across the religious frontier according to their political senses and inner religious convictions. A world where theologians created fixed categories of infidels and faithful, and those who were categorized possibly would not have recognized the category as a legitimate perception of themselves. This was a world where the historian played a decisive role in his attempt to find or create a pattern in the chaos of reality.
