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"The Christianization of Iceland is a competent, important and in many respects brilliant contribution to the history of church and society in medieval Iceland." - Saga-Book "... meticulous scholarship ... valuable study." - Saga-Book "The book is aimed not only at readers whose primary interest is Icelandic history or the background to Old Icelandic literature, but more generally at those interested in the social or ecclesiastical history of medieval Europe." - Saga-Book "... this volume is a major contribution to Icelandic scholarship and should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in medieval Icelandic or ecclesiastical history." -
skandinavistik "Most of the scholarly discussion of Iceland's early political and social development has taken place in Icelandic or other Scandinavian languages. Not the least valuable feature of this volume is its summary of this scholarship. In the process, it corrects some outdated interpretations of canon law and European ecclesiastical history on which earlier work has often been based. Even more importantly, Dr. Vésteinsson carefully presents and analyzes the historical value of the primary sources that pertain to his topic ... Thanks to Vésteinsson, a great deal of dead wood can be cleared away." - skandinavistik "This is a useful book, especially because it helps to balance discussion about the Icelandic Free State Society
... The Christianization of Iceland is an important book, for it gives a good overview of church institutional development, in particular in the period prior to the fall of The Free State." - Journal of Ecclesiastical History "It would be hard to conceive of a more valuable and timely work than this one." - English Historical Review "The broad story it tells is engrossing, both for scholars of Icelandic culture, and for comparative historians of the medieval European Church ... An interesting, thoroughly documented and thoughtful account of the rise of an anomalous and uniquely Icelandic institution." - Times Literary Supplement "The Christianization of Iceland is an important book that puts the study of
Icelandic society during the Commonwealth period on new and secure footing. It will be valuable to scholars studying the medieval history of Iceland or Europe." - History "The book offers a whole new way of interpreting Iceland's Golden Age ... The Christianization of Iceland is indeed a rare book, the kind that comes along once in a century." - Thomas Martin, Norway Times
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