How Christianity came to Europe

During the Middle Ages nearly all the lands of Europe converted to Christianity. In this short guide, we take a look at how various lands adopted Christianity, including by means of missionary efforts, politics and warfare.

Learn more about the Conversion of Europe to Christianity:

Louis the Pious and the Conversion of the Danes

Kings as Catechumens: Royal Conversion Narratives and Easter in the Historia Ecclesiastica

The conversion of Constantine and the Christianisation of Europe

Conversion and Empire: Byzantine Missionaries, Foreign Rulers, and Christian Narratives (ca. 300-900)

Emperor Heraclius and the conversion of the Croats and the Serbs

Investigating ‘peasant conversion’ in Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England

Hungary’s Conversion to Christianity: The Establishment of Hungarian Statehood and its Consequences to the Thirteenth Century

Religious and Cultural Boundaries between Vikings and Irish: The Evidence of Conversion

Was Charlemagne a Mass Murderer?

Power and Conversion – a Comparative Study of Christianization in Scandinavia

The Conversion of Lithuania 1387