Christianity and the European Conversions
Tomás O’Sullivan
This chapter examines both how Christianity transformed Europe and the religion was itself during period of barbarian conversions, from fourth to ninth century. Surveying conversions Goths, Irish, Franks, Anglo-Saxons, Saxons, it draws out common themes initiative, encounter, prestige which emerge their Christianization, highlighting role women in evangelization providing examples success failure individual missionary. It shows medieval Europeans successfully negotiated process conversion an initially unfamiliar Roman Christianity, embracing transforming this inheritance create a new emerged dominate continent as result European early Middle Ages.