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Review title: The Growth of Christianity in Medieval Times
Product review: Richard Fletcher's book, the Barbarian Conversion, is a very thorough look at the switch from paganism to Christianity during the Middle Ages, particulary in Northern and Eastern Europe. It is beautifully researched and covers the topic with great exhaustion over a wide area of chronolgical history. The story does have certain repeating themes as Christianity spreads which could, at times, test the interest of the reader. It also seems, at various stages in the book, that force and authority as a means of Christianizing a people is minimized at the expense of presenting the inherent qualities of the religion itself. The sections that show how the people themselves fought against Chritianity and maintained thier own religion help to balance this to a certain extent. The bias of the sources is also at work here as most of the original sources would have been Christain. A good book on topic that needs more work.
