Paganism in the Middle Ages : threat and fascination
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Paganism in the Middle Ages : threat and fascination
(Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, ser. 1,
Leuven University Press, c2012
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  Hiroshima
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  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
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  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Interdisciplinary study of pagan culture from late antiquity to the emergent Renaissance 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 emergent Renaissance. Contributions deal with the survival of pagan beliefs and practices, as well as with the Christianization of pagan rural populations or with the different strategies of oppression of pagan beliefs. The authors examine problems raised by the encounter with pagan cultures outside the Muslim world and show how philosophers contrived 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 during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and the imitation of pagan models of virtue and mythology in Renaissance poetry. Contributors Carlos Steel (University of Leuven), John Marenbon (Trinity College, Cambridge), Ludo Milis (University of Ghent), Marc-André Wagner † (Paris, Ministère de la Culture), Brigitte Meijns (University of Leuven), Rob Meens (University of Utrecht), Edina Bozoky (Université de Poitiers), Henryk Anzulewicz (Albertus-Magnus Institut, Bonn), Robrecht Lievens (University of Leuven), Stefano Pittaluga (Università di Genova), Anna Akasoy (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Introduction
Ludo MILIS
The Spooky Heritage of Ancient Paganisms
Carlos STEEL
De-paganizing Philosophy
John MARENBON
A Problem of Paganism
Henryk ANZULEWICZ
Albertus Magnus über die philosophi theologizantes und die natürlichen Voraussetzungen postmortaler Glückseligkeit: Versuch einer Bestandsaufname
Marc-André WAGNER
Le cheval dans les croyances germaniques entre paganisme et christianisme
Brigitte MEIJNS
Martyrs, Relics and Holy Places: The Christianization of the Countryside in the Archdiocese of Rheims during the Merovingian Period
Edina BOZOKY
Paganisme et culte des reliques: le topos du sang vivifiant la végétation
Rob MEENS
Thunder over Lyon: Agobard, the tempestarii and Christianity
Robrecht LIEVENS
The 'pagan' Dirc van Delf
Stefano PITTALUGA
Callimaco Esperiente e il paganesimo
Anna AKASOY
Paganism and Islam: Medieval Arabic Literature on Religions in West Africa
Index
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