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Great British Dogs.co.uk Welcome to the History Extra Podcast, fascinating historical

conversations from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.

Why did Christianity become embedded across Western Europe in the centuries after the

end of the Roman Empire? How far did the old gods of Rome still survive? And how did

the concept of being Christian change over the course of the Middle Ages?

In today's podcast, Professor Mark Pegg of Washington University considers these questions

in conversation with Dave Musgrove.

Mark, thank you very much for joining us on the podcast today. You've written a cracking

book called Beatrice's Last Smile, a new history of the Middle Ages, and it's a big

book with a lot in it. But what I want to try and explore with you is quite a specific

question of why Western Europe became Christian. So I'm going to frame the conversation around

that, and I'm sure we'll go wider as we go. So you start off your book with a Mastodom

story. A Mastodom story at the start of the third century, and this woman, Vibia

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