Paganism in the Middle Ages: threat and fascination

"In this volume, the persistence, resurgence, threat, fascination, and repression of various forms of pagan culture are studied in an interdisciplinary perspective from late antiquity to the upcoming Renaissance. The contributions deal with the survival of pagan beliefs and practices as well as...

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Published in:Mediaevalia Lovaniensia / 1
Contributors: Steel, Carlos 1944- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
French
German
Italian
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Published: Leuven Leuven Univ. Press 2012
In: Mediaevalia Lovaniensia / 1 (43)
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Series/Journal:Mediaevalia Lovaniensia / 1 43
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Europe / Paganism / History 500-1500
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Conference program 2007 (Louvain)
B Middle Ages
B Paganism History
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Summary:"In this volume, the persistence, resurgence, threat, fascination, and repression of various forms of pagan culture are studied in an interdisciplinary perspective from late antiquity to the upcoming Renaissance. The contributions deal with the survival of pagan beliefs and practices as well as with the Christianization of pagan rural populations and with the different strategies of oppression of pagan beliefs. They deal with the problems raised by the encounter with pagan cultures outside the Muslim world and examine how philosophers attempted to "save" the great philosophers and poets from ancient culture notwithstanding their paganism. The contributors also study the fascination of classic "pagan" culture among friars in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and the imitation of pagan models of virtue and mythology in Renaissance poetry."--Book description, Amazon.com
Item Description:Beitr. teilw. dt., teilw. engl., teilw. franz., teilw. ital
ISBN:9058679330