Abstract:
Susan, can you tell us a bit about your work?
Yes! We as yet know very little about the most significant
event in European history: the popular conversion of early medieval
civilization to Christianity. I have been engaged in uncovering and
assembling a corpus of texts in eighth and ninth century manuscripts,
half of which have never been published, that are permitting us some
insight as to how the common people of village and countryside
received the Christian teachings and way of life in the face of their
pagan ethics, beliefs, fears, and superstitions.
