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Christianity and Paganism 350 750
Author | : J. N. Hillgarth |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812212134 |
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Using sermons, exorcisms, letters, biographies of the saints, inscriptions, autobiographical and legal documents—some of which are translated nowhere else—J. N. Hillgarth shows how the Christian church went about the formidable task of converting western Europe. The book covers such topics as the relationship between the Church and the Roman state, Christian attitudes toward the barbarians, and the missions to northern Europe. It documents as well the cult of relics in popular Christianity and the emergence of consciously Christian monarchies.
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Author | : J. N. Hillgarth |
Publsiher | : Acls History E-Book Project |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2006-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1597402516 |
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The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity
Author | : James C. Russell |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Christian sociology |
ISBN | : 9780195104660 |
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Discusses German influence on the development of early medieval Christianity.
Between Pagan and Christian
Author | : Christopher P. Jones |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2014-03-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780674369511 |
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Who and what was pagan depended on the outlook of the observer, as Christopher Jones shows in this fresh and penetrating analysis. Treating paganism as a historical construct rather than a fixed entity, Between Christian and Pagan uncovers the fluid ideas, rituals, and beliefs that Christians and pagans shared in Late Antiquity.
Popular Religion in Russia
Author | : Stella Rock |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2007-09-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781134369775 |
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This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that 'double belief', dvoeverie, is in fact an academic myth. Scholars, citing the medieval origins of the term, have often portrayed Russian Christianity as uniquely muddied by paganism, with 'double-believing' Christians consciously or unconsciously preserving pagan traditions even into the twentieth century. This volume shows how the concept of dvoeverie arose with nineteenth-century scholars obsessed with the Russian 'folk' and was perpetuated as a propaganda tool in the Soviet period, colouring our perception of both popular faith in Russian and medieval Russian culture for over a century. It surveys the wide variety of uses of the term from the eleventh to the seventeenth century, and contrasts them to its use in modern historiography, concluding that our modern interpretation of dvoeverie would not have been recognized by medieval clerics, and that 'double-belief' is a modern academic construct. Furthermore, it offers a brief foray into medieval Orthodoxy via the mind of the believer, through the language and literature of the period.
Paganism and Christianity 100 425 C E
Author | : Ramsay MacMullen,Eugene Lane |
Publsiher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1451407858 |
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This book is a collection of nearly 175 documents?from saints, emperors, philosophers, satirists, inscriptions, graffiti, and other interesting types?that sheds light on the complex fabric of religious belief as it changed from a variety of non-Judeo-Christian movements to Christian in late antiquity. These texts illuminate and bring to life the bizarre and the banal of the social world of the Roman Empire, the world in which Christianity ultimately gained preeminence. This treasury of texts leads the reader through the matrix of beliefs among which Christianity grew. It includes both Christian and non-Christian sources, avoiding a common but obscuring division between the two. The material is presented as one single flow that satisfies natural curiosity and whets the reader's appetite for more. Brief explanatory introductions to the documents are included.
The Merovingian Kingdoms 450 751
Author | : Ian Wood |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2014-06-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317871163 |
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A comprehensive survey which begins with the rise of the Franks, then examines the Merovingians.
Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries
Author | : Ramsay MacMullen |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0300080778 |
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The slaughter of animals for religious feasts, the tinkling of bells to ward off evil during holy rites, the custom of dancing in religious services--these and many other pagan practices persisted in the Christian church for hundreds of years after Constantine proclaimed Christianity the one official religion of Rome. In this book, Ramsay MacMullen investigates the transition from paganism to Christianity between the fourth and eighth centuries. He reassesses the triumph of Christianity, contending that it was neither tidy nor quick, and he shows that the two religious systems were both vital during an interactive period that lasted far longer than historians have previously believed. MacMullen explores the influences of paganism and Christianity upon each other. In a rich discussion of the different strengths of the two systems, he demonstrates that pagan beliefs were not eclipsed or displaced by Christianity but persisted or were transformed. The victory of the Christian church, he explains, was one not of obliteration but of widening embrace and assimilation. This fascinating book also includes new material on the Christian persecution of pagans over the centuries through methods that ranged from fines to crucifixion; the mixture of motives in conversion; the stubbornness of pagan resistance; the difficulty of satisfying the demands and expectations of new converts; and the degree of assimilation of Christianity to paganism.