Pagan Survivals, Superstitions and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature

Pagan Survivals, Superstitions and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature
ISBN-10
0888441517
ISBN-13
9780888441515
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
438
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
PIMS
Author
Bernadette Filotas

Description

This comprehensive study examines early medieval popular culture as it appears in ecclesiastical and secular law, sermons, penitentials and other pastoral works - a selective, skewed, but still illuminating record of the beliefs and practices of ordinary Christians. Concentrating on the five centuries from c. 500 to c. 1000, Pagan Survivals, Superstitions and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature presents the evidence for folk religious beliefs and piety, attitudes to nature and death, festivals, magic, drinking and alimentary customs. As such it provides a precious glimpse of the mutual adaptation of Christianity and traditional cultures at an important period of cultural and religious transition.

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