Paganism, Christianity, Lords and Peasants in the Iberian Early Middle Ages, 4th to 8th Centuries

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-09790-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Studies in Medieval Religions and Cultures

Addressing fundamental questions about the conversion of the West to Christianity between the 4th and 8th centuries, this book explores how and why new religions spread in societies that were previously foreign to them and examines what happens to old gods and traditional beliefs in the process.

The spread of Christianity through rural areas in the post-Roman West was marked by confrontation, rejection and incorporation of alternative beliefs whose resilience stemmed from their connection with the diverse demands of everyday life of peasant communities. The slow process of penetration and spread of the “new religion” in the countryside, with the contradictions that characterized it, can only be fully understood through its integration into the more global process that was underway at the time: that of the development of new relations of power and domination, with the resistance that opposed it. With a theoretical approach, the volume addresses deeper questions about how Christianity developed alongside economic and social processes of change.

This book is a compelling resource for historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and religious studies scholars, as well as any reader interested in the high Middle Ages.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

da Motta Bastos, Mario Jorge

da Motta Bastos, Mário Jorge

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The expansion of lordship in Iberian Society 2. The Church in the Seigneurial Society 3. Divine Revelation 4. Continuity or Transformation? 5. Divine Power nature, relations and fields of intervention 6. The Saints and the Liturgy 7. Final Thoughts

Über Autor(innen)

Mário Jorge da Motta Bastos holds a PhD in Social History from Universidade de São Paulo and is a senior lecturer at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF-Brazil). He was also the Brazilian Head of the Brazil-Argentina International Cooperation Program for Graduate Schools. He is the author of O Poder nos Tempos da Peste… (2009), Assim na Terra como no Céu… (2013), Filologia, História e Língua… (2018) and several other books and articles.