Paganism in the Middle Ages : threat and fascination /
edited by Carlos Steel, John Marenbon, Werner Verbeke.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations.
- Mediaevalia Lovaniensia ; series 1, studia XLIII .
- Mediaevalia Lovaniensia ; ser. 1, studia 43. .
"The collection of essays in this volume goes back to a colloquium which took place in two sessions, one in Leuven (organized by the Leuven Institute of Medieval Studies) and one at Trinity College Cambridge in the summer and autumn of 2007."--Introduction.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The spooky heritage of ancient paganisms / De-paganizing philosophy / A problem of paganism / Albertus Magnus über die philosophi theologizantes und die natürlichen Voraussetzungen postmortaler Glückseiligkeit : Versuch einer Bestandsaufname / Le cheval dans les croyances germaniques entre paganisme et christianisme / Martyrs, relics and holy places : the Christianization of the countryside in the Archdiocese of Rheims during the Merovingian period / Paganisme et culte des reliques : le topos du sang vivifiant la végétation / Thunder over Lyon : Agobard, the tempestarii and Christianity / The 'pagan' Dirc van Delf / Callimaco Esperiente et il paganesimo / Paganism and Islam : medieval Arabic literature on religions in West Africa / Ludo Milis -- Carlos Steel -- John Marenbon -- Henryk Anzulewicz -- Marc-André Wagner -- Brigitte Meijns -- Edina Bozoky -- Rob Meens -- Robrecht Lievens -- Stefano Pittaluga -- Anna Akasoy.
"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." --from book description, Amazon.com.
Contributions in English, French, German, and Italian.