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The Conversion of Europe

by Richard Fletcher

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How Christianity Took Root Across Medieval Europe

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How Christianity Took Root Across Medieval Europe

Richard Fletcher traces Europe’s long conversion to Christianity from the fourth century through the late medieval period, beginning after the Roman Empire’s collapse and extending to Lithuania’s adoption of the faith in 1386. The book treats conversion as a continent-wide historical process rather than a single event, following the changing religious and political landscape through the establishment of the Holy Roman Empire’s dominance around 1300. Its broad chronological span places missionary activity, shifting rulers, and the formation of Christian Europe within one extended historical account.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers seeking a wide-ranging history of Christianity in medieval Europe
  • Readers interested in the transition from the late Roman world to the Holy Roman Empire
  • Readers looking for historical context on Lithuania’s late conversion to Christianity

Themes

Christianization of EuropeMedieval religious historyCollapse of the Roman EmpireHoly Roman EmpireReligion and political change

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Book overview

The story of how Europe was converted to Christianity from 300AD until the barbarian Lithuanians finally capitulated at the astonishingly late date of 1386. It is an epic tale from one of the most gifted historians of today.

This remarkable book examines the conversion of Europe to the Christian faith in the period following the collapse of the Roman Empire, to approximately 1300 when the hegemony of the Holy Roman Empire was firmly established.

Like Alan Bullock and Simon Schama, Fletcher is a historian with the true gift of a storyteller and a wide general readership ahead of him.

Fletcher's previous book, The Quest for El Cid, won both the Wolfson History Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for History. This book is even better - the most impressive achievement so far of this strikingly gifted historian.

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