Research Catalog

Title

Paganism in the Middle Ages : threat and fascination / edited by Carlos Steel, John Marenbon, Werner Verbeke.

Publication

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2012]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Steel, Carlos G.
• Marenbon, John.
• Verbeke, Werner.

Description

xiii, 250 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

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." --from book description, Amazon.com.

Series Statement

Mediaevalia Lovaniensia ; series 1, studia XLIII

Uniform Title

Mediaevalia Lovaniensia ; ser. 1, studia 43.

Subjects

• Paganism
• Paganism > History
• Christianity--General
• Religion--Non-Christian
• History
• Medieval Studies
• Middle Ages

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Contributions in English, French, German, and Italian.

Contents

The spooky heritage of ancient paganisms / Ludo Milis -- De-paganizing philosophy / Carlos Steel -- A problem of paganism / John Marenbon -- Albertus Magnus über die philosophi theologizantes und die natürlichen Voraussetzungen postmortaler Glückseiligkeit : Versuch einer Bestandsaufname / Henryk Anzulewicz -- Le cheval dans les croyances germaniques entre paganisme et christianisme / Marc-André Wagner -- Martyrs, relics and holy places : the Christianization of the countryside in the Archdiocese of Rheims during the Merovingian period / Brigitte Meijns -- Paganisme et culte des reliques : le topos du sang vivifiant la végétation / Edina Bozoky -- Thunder over Lyon : Agobard, the tempestarii and Christianity / Rob Meens -- The 'pagan' Dirc van Delf / Robrecht Lievens -- Callimaco Esperiente et il paganesimo / Stefano Pittaluga -- Paganism and Islam : medieval Arabic literature on religions in West Africa / Anna Akasoy.

ISBN

• 9789058679338 (paperback)
• 9058679330 (paperback)

OCLC

• 829679947
• ocn829679947
• SCSB-5684569

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries