This book is a result of a project run by the ‘Religion’ team in the Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies, which was a Nordic Centre of Excellence comprising the universities of Southern Denmark (Odense), Helsinki, Gothenburg and Bergen in the period 2005–10. The book's aim is to ‘demonstrate how medieval Latin Christianity in Scandinavia incorporated influences from Nordic beliefs and customs' (p. 1), and to ‘analyse the extent to which Scandinavians imported and accepted all foreign ideas and habits: did they assimilate or even refashion the new ideas to correspond to their existing cultures, or did they actively contribute, by producing something entirely new, with regard to common Christian (or European) culture?’ (pp. 1–2). This is not a good book, even though the quality of the individual contributions is uniformly high. The main problem is lack of coherence, which the editors do not even try to create in the introduction, and can best be seen in that they only give the background to ‘some of the research questions investigated by the project’ (p. 3). The lack of historiographical and historical background in the introduction should, however, not overshadow the fact that most of the articles in the volume are interesting and touch upon important topics. Just to mention two, ‘The making of new cultural landscapes in the medieval Baltic’ by Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen gives a good insight into the complicated process of transforming the heathen cultural landscape into a Christian one. And ‘The Lars Vi case: a fragmentary example of Swedish ecclesiastical legal practice and sexual mentality at the beginning of the fifteenth century’ by Bertil Nilsson discusses the fascinating case of Lars Sunesson, a rector and canon in the diocese of Linköping in Sweden.