Royal Ideologies and the Conversion of the Germanic Kingdoms Carole Cusack XVIth Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ANZAMRS) Conference, University of Melbourne, 1992.

https://www.academia.edu/1692295/Royal_Ideologies_and_the_Conversion_of_the_Germanic_Kingdoms?email_work_card=title • The conversion of Germanic peoples in late antiquity was a strategy of Empire that looked back to Emperor Constantine's adoption of the cross at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312. • Missionaries were sent out by Popes and Kings to convert Pagan nations and societies as a strategy of political aggrandizement and consolidating power.