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Cuthbert. Two "Lives" of Saint Cuthbert: A Life by an Anonymous Monk of Lindisfarne and Bede’s Prose Life. Translated by Bertram Colgrave. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1940.

Boniface. The English Correspondence of St. Boniface: Being for the Most Part Letters Exchanged between the Apostle of the Germans and His English Friends. Translated by Edward Kylie. New York: Cooper Square, 1966.

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Armstrong, Guyda, and Ian N. Wood, eds. Christianizing Peoples and Converting Individuals.  International Medieval Research, 7.  Turnhout:  Brepols, 2000.

Bitel, Lisa M. Isle of Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Blair, John.  The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society.  Oxford/New York:  Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Bornstein, Daniel E. (ed.) Medieval Christianity. A People's History of Christianity 4. Minneapolis: Fortress Press,2009.  Review pp. 1-120 (related to "Christianizing the People")

 Brown, Peter. The Rise of Western Christendom:  Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000. Second Edition. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. 

Bowen, Emrys. Saints, Seaways, and Settlements in the Celtic Lands. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969.

Carver, Martin, ed.  The Cross Goes North:  Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300.  York: Medieval Press, University of York; Rochester NY: Boydell Press, 2003.

Chadwick, Nora K. The Age of the Saints in the Early Celtic Church. London: Oxford University Press, 1963.

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Duke, John A. The Colomban Church. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932.

Edward, James. Franks. Peoples of Europe. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.

Fletcher, Richard.  The Barbarian Conversion from Paganism to Christianity. New York:  Henry Holt and Company, 1997.

Flint, Valerie I.J. The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Fouracre, Paul, and Richard Geberding, eds. Late Merovingian France: History and Hagiography, 640-720. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996.

Fowden, Garth. Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Franklin, Simon, and Jonathan Shepard. The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200. Longman History of Russia. New York: Longman, 1996.

Gameson, Richard, ed. Saint Augustine and the Conversion of England. Stroud: Sutton, 1999.

Geary, Patrick. Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Goffart, Walter. The Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 500-800). Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Herrin, Judith. The Transformation of Christendom. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Hanson, Richard Patrick Crosland. Saint Patrick: His Origins and Career. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.

Herbert, M(‘a)ire. Iona, Kells, and Derry: The History and Hagiography of the Monastic ‘Familia’ of Columba. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. 

Hillgarth, J. N. (ed..). Christianity and Paganism, 350-750: The Conversion of Western Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.

Howe, John, "Creating Symbolic Landscapes: Medieval development of Sacred Space." In Inventing Medieval Landscapes: Senses of Place in Western Europe. Edited by John Howe and Michael Wolfe. Pp. 63-78. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002; and 2) John Howe" The Conversion of the Physical World: The Creation of a Christian Landscape." In Varieties of Religious Conversion in the Middle Ages. Edited by James K. Muldoon. Pp. 63-78 Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1997. Review both articles in one review

James, Edward (ed.). Visigothic Spain: New Approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Lane Fox, Robin.  Pagans and Christians.  New York:  Knopf, 1986.

Levison, Wilhelm. England and the Continent in the Eighth Century. The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford in the Hilary Term, 1943. Oxford: Clarendon, 1946.

 Markus, R.A. Gregory the Great and His World. Cambridge: University Press, 1997.

McKenna, Stephan. Paganism and Pagan Survivals in Spain Up to the Fall of the Visigothic Kingdom. Studies in Medieval History ns 1. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America, 1938.

MacMullen, Ramsay. Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

McNeill, John T. The Celtic Churches: A History A.D. 200 to 1200. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Rob Meens, "A Background to Augustine’s Mission to Canterbury," Anglo-Saxon England 23 (1994): 5-17; Ian Wood, "The Mission of Augustine of Canterbury to the English," Speculum 69 (1994): 1-17.

Mytum, H. C. Origins of Early Christian Ireland. London: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1992.

Papaconstantinou, Arietta, ed. Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond. Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015.

Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Excellent Empire: The Fall of Rome and the Triumph of the Church. The Rauschenbusch Lectures ns 1. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1988.

Pohl, Walter, and Gerda Heydemann, eds. Post-Roman Transitions: Christian and Barbarian Identities in the Early Medieval West. Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 14. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013.

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Russell, James C.  The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity:  A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Wemple, Suzanne Fonay. Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister, 500-900. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvannia Press, 1981.

Wood, Ian. The Missionary Life: Saints and the Evangelization of Europe, 400-1050. New York: Longman, 2001.