Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Northern Europeans negotiate their future / Martin Carver -- The politics of conversion in North Central Europe / Przemyslaw Urbańczyk -- 'How do you pray to God?' : fragmentation and variety in early Medieval Christianity / Aleksander Pluskowski and Philippa Patrick -- Processes of conversion in North-west Roman Gaul / Susan M. Pearce -- Roman Britain, a failed promise / William H.C. Frend -- Where are the Christians? late Roman cemeteries in Britain / Christopher Sparey-Green -- Votive deposits and Christian practice in Late Roman Britain / David Petts -- Basilicas and barrows: Christian origins in Wales and Western Britain / Jeremy Knight -- A landscape converted: archaeology and early church organisation on Iveragh and Dingle, Ireland / Tomás Ó Carragáin -- Romanitas and Realpolitik in Cogitosus' description of the Church of St Brigit, Kildare / Carol Neuman de Vegvar -- Making a Christian landscape: early Medieval Cornwall / Sam Turner -- Early Medieval parish formation in Dumfries and Galloway / Christopher Crowe -- Christian and pagan practice during the conversion of Viking Age Orkney and Shetland / James H. Barrett -- Anglo-Saxon pagan and early Christian attitudes to the dead / Audrey L. Meaney -- The adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon royal courts to Christianity / Barbara Yorke -- The control of burial practice in middle Anglo-Saxon England / Helen Geake -- The straight and narrow way: Fenland causeways and the conversion of the landscape in the Witham Valley, Lincolnshire / David Stocker and Paul Everson -- Three ages of conversion at Kirkdale, North Yorkshire / Philip Rahtz and Lorna Watts -- The confusion of conversion: Streanaeshalch, Strensall and Whitby and the Northumbrian church / P.S. Barnwell, L.A.S. Butler and C.J. Dunn -- Design and meaning in early Medieval inscriptions in Britain and Ireland / John Higgitt -- Spaces between words: word separation in Anglo-Saxon inscriptions / Elisabeth Okasha -- Sacraments in stone: the mysteries of Christ in Anglo-Saxon sculpture / Jane Hawkes -- Alcuin's narratives of evangelism: the life of St Willibrord and the Northumbrian hagiographical tradition / Kate Rambridge -- Pagans and Christians at a frontier: Viking burial in the Danelaw / Julian D. Richards -- The body of St AEthelthryth: desire, conversion and reform in Anglo-Saxon England / Catherine E. Karkov -- From a late Roman cemetery to the Basilica Sanctorum Cassii et Florentii in Bonn, Germany / Christoph Keller -- The cross goes north: from late antiquity to Merovingian times South and North of the Alps / Volker Bierbrauer -- The cross goes north: Carolingian times between Rhine and Elbe / Michael Müller-Wille -- The cross goes north: Christian symbols and Scandinavian women / Jörn Staecker -- The role of Scandinavian women in Christianisation: the neglected evidence / Anne-Sofie Gräslund -- Runestones and the conversion of Sweden / Linn Lager -- Christianity, politics and ethnicity in early Medieval Jämtland, Mid Sweden / Stig Welinder -- The Scandinavian animal styles in response to Mediterranean and Christian narrative art / Nancy L. Wicker -- The role of secular rulers in the conversion of Sweden / Alexandra Sanmark -- Byzantine influence in the conversion of the Baltic Region? / Per Beskow -- St Botulph: an English saint in Scandinavia / John Toy -- Christianisation in Estonia: a Process of dual-faith and syncretism / Heiki Valk.

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