The Introduction of Christianity into the Early Medieval Insular World: Converting the Isles I, ed. Roy Flechner and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh. Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 19. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016, xx, 508 pp.

A thousand pages of print, instigated by Cambridge scholars and published by a respected press, might be expected to indicate major advances for knowledge of Christianity in early Britain and beyond. Why we have no such thing is set out in <?page nr="378"?>this review’s second part. Before that, a list of chapters in the two volumes.