Hey guys, I have to write an essay titled " Why did Christianity become so widespread in the period c. 500-1050?". Does anyone have any suggestions for academic literature or books surrounding this topic? Thanks!
Combination of [Brown 2013] (from the 3th century AD to about 1000 CE) and [Berend ed. 2007] (from the 9th to the 11th century) should cover most of the area north to the Alps, functioning at least as a departure point, but if you wish to have more recommendations on individual cases, please specify which groups of people you are especially interested in.
(Added): While individual chapters (essays) are relatively short and now not the latest, the following collection of essays also covers the wide variety of individual cases north to Alps in Early Middle Age: Carver, Martin (ed.). The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2003. (linked to its table of contents in the library OPAC page)
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