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The volume traces Christian expansion across northern and eastern Europe between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, examining missionary strategies, political motivations, and ecclesiastical organization. It shows how missionaries, military force, royal conversions, monasteries, and episcopal foundations shaped conversion in Scandinavia, the Slavic lands, Hungary, the Baltic, and beyond, while local pagan customs often persisted beneath nominal Christianity. Tensions between imperial efforts to bind new churches to German metropolitans and papal aims to establish independent national sees are highlighted. The work also surveys outreach toward Mongol, Islamic, and Baltic pagan populations and introduces the crusading movement.
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