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| PART I Processes of Conversion |
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1 Introduction: Northern Europeans Negotiate their Future |
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3 | (12) |
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2 The Politics of Conversion in North Central Europe |
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15 | (14) |
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3 'How do you pray to God?' Fragmentation and Variety in Early Medieval Christianity |
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29 | (30) |
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Aleksander Pluskowski and Philippa Patrick |
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| PART II Into Celtic Lands |
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59 | (168) |
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4 Processes of Conversion in North-west Roman Gaul |
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61 | (18) |
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5 Roman Britain, a Failed Promise |
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79 | (14) |
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6 Where are the Christians? Late Roman Cemeteries in Britain |
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93 | (16) |
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7 Votive Deposits and Christian Practice in Late Roman Britain |
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109 | (10) |
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8 Basilicas and Barrows: Christian Origins in Wales and Western Britain |
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119 | (8) |
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9 A Landscape Converted: Archaeology and Early Church Organisation on Iveragh and Dingle, Ireland |
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127 | (26) |
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10 Romanitas and Realpolitik in Cogitosus' Description of the Church of St Brigit, Kildare |
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153 | (18) |
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11 Making a Christian Landscape: Early Medieval Cornwall |
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171 | (24) |
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12 Early Medieval Parish Formation in Dumfries and Galloway |
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195 | (12) |
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13 Christian and Pagan Practice during the Conversion of Viking Age Orkney and Shetland |
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207 | (20) |
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| PART III Christianity and the English |
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227 | (186) |
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14 Anglo-Saxon Pagan and Early Christian Attitudes to the Dead |
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229 | (14) |
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15 The Adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon Royal Courts to Christianity |
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243 | (16) |
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16 The Control of Burial Practice in middle Anglo-Saxon England |
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259 | (12) |
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17 The Straight and Narrow Way: Fenland Causeways and the Conversion of the Landscape in the Witham Valley, Lincolnshire |
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271 | (18) |
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David Stocker and Paul Everson |
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18 Three Ages of Conversion at Kirkdale, North Yorkshire |
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289 | (22) |
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Philip Rahtz and Lorna Watts |
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19 The Confusion of Conversion: Streanwshalch, Strensall and Whitby and the Northumbrian Church |
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311 | (16) |
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P.S. Barnwell, L.A.S. Butler and C.J. Dunn |
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20 Design and Meaning in Early Medieval Inscriptions in Britain and Ireland |
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327 | (12) |
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21 Spaces Between Words: Word Separation in Anglo-Saxon Inscriptions |
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339 | (12) |
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22 Sacraments in Stone: The Mysteries of Christ in Anglo-Saxon Sculpture |
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351 | (20) |
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23 Alcuin's Narratives of Evangelism: The Life of St Willibrord and the Northumbrian Hagiographical Tradition |
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371 | (12) |
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24 Pagans and Christians at a Frontier: Viking Burial in the Danelaw |
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383 | (14) |
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25 The Body of St IEthelthryth: Desire, Conversion and Reform in Anglo-Saxon England |
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397 | (16) |
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| PART IV From the Alps to the Baltic |
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413 | (168) |
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26 From a Late Roman Cemetery to the Basilica Sanctorum Cassii et Florentii in Bonn, Germany |
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415 | (14) |
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27 The Cross Goes North: From Late Antiquity to Merovingian Times South and North of the Alps |
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429 | (14) |
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28 The Cross Goes North: Carolingian Times between Rhine and Elbe |
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443 | (20) |
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29 The Cross Goes North: Christian Symbols and Scandinavian Women |
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463 | (20) |
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30 The Role of Scandinavian Women in Christianisation: The Neglected Evidence |
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483 | (14) |
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31 Runestones and the Conversion of Sweden |
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497 | (12) |
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32 Christianity, Politics and Ethnicity in Early Medieval Jamtland, Mid Sweden |
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509 | (22) |
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33 The Scandinavian Animal Styles in Response to Mediterranean and Christian Narrative Art |
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531 | (20) |
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34 The Role of Secular Rulers in the Conversion of Sweden |
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551 | (8) |
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35 Byzantine Influence in the Conversion of the Baltic Region? |
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559 | (6) |
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36 St Botulph: An English Saint in Scandinavia |
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565 | (6) |
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37 Christianisation in Estonia: A Process of Dual-Faith and Syncretism |
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571 | (10) |
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