Just finished this book. While it gives the reader the sense of the conversion of England from pagan to Christian and the major players of the time it does so in a circular story telling manner that repeats certain aspects of peoples and events that was not necessary. If better organized it could have been shortened by about 100 pages.....If only Bede had Microsoft Word! The book reminds me quite a bit of Eusubius's History of the Church. That book was written 300 yrs prior but in a similar manner of inserting miraculous events and saintly people into a historical tome. It was interesting and revealing as to how England was convereted and how the new religion dealt with many advesaries (plagues, herasies, wars, etc.) that arose over the years.