Steel / Marenbon / Verbeke Paganism in the Middle Ages

Threat and Fascination
01. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-94-6166-117-3
Verlag: Leuven University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

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)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steel, Carlos

Marenbon, John

Verbeke, Werner

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Marenbon, John
John Marenbon is Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.

Verbeke, Werner
Werner Verbeke is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at KU Leuven.

Steel, Carlos
Carlos Steel is emeritus professor of ancient and medieval philosophy at KU Leuven and director of the “Aristoteles Latinus” project.