Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Plates ix
4. Figures xi
5. Part I Processes of Conversion
6. 1 Introduction: Northern Europeans Negotiate their Future 3
7. 2 The Politics of Conversion in North Central Europe 15
8. 3 ‘How do you pray to God?’ Fragmentation and Variety in Early Medieval Christianity 29
9. Part II Into Celtic Lands
10. 4 Processes of Conversion in North-west Roman Gaul 61
11. 5 Roman Britain, a Failed Promise 79
12. 6 Where are the Christians? Late Roman Cemeteries in Britain 93
13. 7 Votive Deposits and Christian Practice in Late Roman Britain 109
14. 8 Basilicas and Barrows: Christian Origins in Wales and Western Britain 119
15. 9 A Landscape Converted: Archaeology and Early Church Organisation on Iveragh and Dingle, Ireland 127
16. 10 Romanitas and Realpolitik in Cogitosus’ Description of the Church of St Brigit, Kildare 153
17. 11 Making a Christian Landscape: Early Medieval Cornwall 171
18. 12 Early Medieval Parish Formation in Dumfries and Galloway 195
19. 13 Christian and Pagan Practice during the Conversion of Viking Age Orkney and Shetland 207
20. Part III Christianity and the English
21. 14 Anglo-Saxon Pagan and Early Christian Attitudes to the Dead 229
22. 15 The Adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon Royal Courts to Christianity 243
23. 16 The Control of Burial Practice in Anglo-Saxon England 259
24. 17 The Straight and Narrow Way: Fenland Causeways and the Conversion of the Landscape in the Witham Valley, Lincolnshire 271
25. 18 Three Ages of Conversion at Kirkdale, North Yorkshire 289
26. 19 The Confusion of Conversion: Streanæshalch, Strensall and Whitby and the Northumbrian Church 311
27. 20 Design and Meaning in Early Medieval Inscriptions in Britain and Ireland 327
28. 21 Spaces Between Words: Word Separation in Anglo-Saxon Inscriptions 339
29. 22 Sacraments in Stone: The Mysteries of Christ in Anglo-Saxon Sculpture 351
30. 23 Alcuin’s Narratives of Evangelism: The Life of St Willibrord and the Northumbrian Hagiographical Tradition 371
31. 24 Pagans and Christians at a Frontier: Viking Burial in the Danelaw 383
32. 25 The Body of St Æthelthryth: Desire, Conversion and Reform in Anglo-Saxon England 397
33. Part IV From the Alps to the Baltic
34. 26 From a Late Roman Cemetery to the Basilica Sanctorum Cassii et Florentii in Bonn, Germany 415
35. 27 The Cross Goes North: From Late Antiquity to Merovingian Times South and North of the Alps 429
36. 28 The Cross Goes North: Carolingian Times between Rhine and Elbe 443
37. 29 The Cross Goes North: Christian Symbols and Scandinavian Women 463
38. 30 The Role of Scandinavian Women in Christianisation: The Neglected Evidence 483
39. 31 Runestones and the Conversion of Sweden 497
40. 32 Christianity, Politics and Ethnicity in Early Medieval Jämtland, Mid Sweden 509
41. 33 The Scandinavian Animal Styles in Response to Mediterranean and Christian Narrative Art 531
42. 34 The Role of Secular Rulers in the Conversion of Sweden 551
43. 35 Byzantine Influence in the Conversion of the Baltic Region? 559
44. 36 St Botulph: An English Saint in Scandinavia 565
45. 37 Christianisation in Estonia: A Process of Dual-Faith and Syncretism 571
46. Index 581