"(...) Lentsch brings into play all the essential aspects - the legal, literary, narrative and archaeological sources in his well-structured approach. (...) One could wish for more such detailed studies that are not limited to just a one case-study region but take in view the whole of Anglo-Saxon England. Lentzsch's work can serve as a handy reference tome to the interaction between polytheists and Christians in 7th-century Anglo-Saxon England."