Publication – Paganism in the Middle Ages. Threat and Fascination

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.

Table des matières :

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

Informations pratiques :

Carlos Steel, John Marenbon, and Werner Verbeke (éd.), Paganism in the Middle Ages. Threat and Fascination, Louvain, Leuven University Press, 2013 (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Series 1/Studia, 43). Paperback. ISBN: 9789058679338. Prix : 59,50 €.