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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French, German, Italian Series: Mediaevalia Lovaniensia ; ser. 1, studia 43.Publisher: Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789461661173
  • 9461661177
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Paganism in the Middle Ages.DDC classification:
  • 299.94 22
LOC classification:
  • BL432 .P35 2012eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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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.
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
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)714259

"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 / 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.

"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

Contributions in English, French, German, and Italian.

Print version record.