"CHRISTIANIZATION"

 

Armstrong, Guyda, and Ian N. Wood, eds. Christianizing Peoples and Converting Individuals.  International Medieval Research 7.  Turnhout: Brepols, 2000.

 

Bornstein, Daniel E. (ed.) Medieval Christianity. A People's History of Christianity 4. Minneapolis: Fortress Press,2009.  Review pp. 1-120 (related to "Christianizing the People")

 

Brown, Peter. The Rise of Western Christendom:  Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000. Second Edition. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. 

 

Carver, Martin, ed.  The Cross Goes North:  Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300.  York: Medieval Press, University of York; Rochester NY: Boydell Press, 2003.

Fletcher, Richard.  The Barbarian Conversion from Paganism to Christianity. New York:  Henry Holt and Company, 1997.

Fowden, Garth.  Empire to Commonwealth:  Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity.  Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press, 1993.

 

Franklin, Simon, and Jonathan Shepard.  The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200.  Longman History of Russia.  New York:  Longman, 1996.

 

Goffart, Walter.  The Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 500-800). Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1988.

 

Hillgarth, J. N. (ed..). Christianity and Paganism, 350-750: The Conversion of Western Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.

 

Review both articles:  Howe, John, "Creating Symbolic Landscapes: Medieval Development of Sacred Space." In Inventing Medieval Landscapes: Senses of Place in Western Europe. Edited by John Howe and Michael Wolfe. Pp. 63-78. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002; and 2) John Howe" The Conversion of the Physical World: The Creation of a Christian Landscape." In Varieties of Religious Conversion in the Middle Ages. Edited by James K. Muldoon. Pp. 63-78 Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1997.

 

Markus, Robert A. Gregory the Great and His World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

 

McKenna, Stephan.  Paganism and Pagan Survivals in Spain Up to the Fall of the Visigothic Kingdom.  Studies in Medieval History n.s. 1.  Washington, D.C.:  Catholic University of America, 1938.

 

MacMullen, Ramsay. Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

 

Review both articles:  1) Rob Meens, “A Background to Augustine’s Mission to Canterbury,” Anglo-Saxon England 23 (1994): 5-17; and 2) Ian Wood, “The Mission of Augustine of Canterbury to the English,” Speculum 69 (1994): 1-17.

 

Mériaux, Charles. Gallia Irradiata:  Saints et sanctuaires dans le nord de la Gaule du haut Moyen Âge.  Beiträge zur Hagiographie 4.  Stuttgart:  Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006.

Papaconstantinou, Arietta, ed. Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015

Pelikan, Jaroslav.  The Excellent Empire:  The Fall of Rome and the Triumph of the Church.  The Rauschenbusch Lectures, n.s. 1.  San Francisco:  Harper and Row, 1988.

 Pohl, Walter, and Gerda Heydemann, eds. Post-Roman Transitions: Christian and Barbarian Identities in the Early Medieval West. Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 14. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013.

                                                       

Riché, Pierre.  Education and Culture in the Barbarian West from the Sixth through the Eighth Century.  Translated by John J. Contreni.  Columbia, SC:  University of South Carolina Press, 1976.                                  

 

Russell, James C.  The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity:  A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1994.

      

Salzman, Michele Renee.  The Making of a Christian Aristocracy:  Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire.  Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 2002.

          

Sullivan, Richard E.  Christian Missionary Activity in the Early Middle Ages. Aldershot, Hampshire:  Variorum, 1994.

and the Cloister, 500-900.  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.

 

Wood, Ian.  The Missionary Life:  Saints and the Evangelization of Europe, 400-1050. New York: Longman, 2001.