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You want anything that from the time period of Late Antiquity (~200-~800), when Christianity was formed and grew rapidly after Constantine came to power and declared all of the Roman Empire to be a Christian empire. I just took a class on Late Antiquity and this time period, learned a lot about Christianity's formation and adoption by the Barbarians (Goths, Franks, everyone that invaded Rome, etc) and Romans alike. You want this: A Very Short Introduction to Late Antiquity (http://www.amazon.com/Late-Antiquity-Very-Short-Introduction/dp/0199546207) which gives you the basic information surrounding the rise of christianity and it's affects on the people and why they adopted it. Hope this helps.
Sure. I'm going to side-step your question a little bit because a simple google search will turn up articles and books on these topics - rather, I'm going to give you some cool topics and one or two citations for each. If you're really interested, you could build a reading base out from there.
Disclaimer: I am a history student when I'm not on reddit, so this is going to be from that perspective. I'm sure a scientist could give you an entirely different list, and that's cool too - I just don't know the literature well.
Late Antiquity:
Charlemagne:
Bonus Reading: Hodges and Whitehouse, Muhammad and Charlemagne if you really get off on the economic stuff.
The Medieval World
As a concluding remark, I would just say that one of my professor's once told me that we often make the mistake of thinking that people in history were not as smart as we are today, or that they weren't capable of the same things that we are intellectually. The sooner you realize that this is false, and that the people you study in history could be just like you if they had been born in 1990, the sooner you are on your way to thinking about the medieval world in a productive way.
Sorry this is a bit vague, I'm away from my books for christmas so I don't have everything at hand.