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materialisation of social power, the persistence and reuse of ancient places, or the prominence of sites to those moving across the terrain. I was, for example, tantalised by Maria Țiplic's account of how the Germanic territories of Transylvania were characterised by prominent bell towers, which served to project the authority of their elites as well as to assert the faith in regions still dominated by pre-Christian practice; but this was handled all too briefly within a much longer and more descriptive paper, despite its profound relevance to the editors' stated aims. Nevertheless, despite its somewhat uneven coverage, the promotion of landscape perspectives to ecclesiastical studies so broadly across Europe points the direction for some extremely rewarding future collaborations, and reminds us of the necessity of maintaining close scholarly links with that continent regardless of the political climate in which we are now obliged to live.