A World Full Of Gods: The Strange Triumph Of Christianity
by Keith Price
A very fine discussion of the way Christianity won the intellectual and political competition in the lands that would become Europe, defeating Judaism and the pagan establishment. It’s an interesting story, well (and adventurously) told here. What I miss, though, is a sympathetic engagement with the beliefs of Northern Europe — the people we would know as Vikings — and perhaps with whatever the Slavs believed.