I've got the unfortunate case of being really interested in the social and spiritual landscape of early medieval Europe before and during Christianization, while also not being a student at all and only really having amazon reviews, covers, names, and sparse pages to tell if something is well researched and academically minded or nationalist, racist, wildly speculative drivel about The Heart of the West and Our Warrior Spirit or whatever nonsense.

Was wondering if there was anywhere you can get public access to something that would make the distinction easier to make. Even just like a list of a course's books and a little bit on the course, professor, college etc. would be super helpful. Also the dimensions of the sacred, ritual, that sorta thing.