Paganism, Christianity, Lords and Peasants in the Iberian Early Middle Ages, 4th to 8th Centuries

Addressing fundamental questions of the conversion of the West to Christianity between the 4th and 8th centuries, this book explores how and why new religions spread in societies that were previously foreign to them, and examines what happens to the old gods and traditional beliefs in this process. The slow penetration and spread of Christianity in the rural areas of the post-Roman West, with the ...