In this Book
- Paganism in the Middle Ages: Threat and Fascination
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Leuven University Press
- Series: Mediaevalia Lovaniensia - Series 1/Studia
summary
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
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- Introduction
- pp. vii-xiii
- De-Paganizing Philosophy
- pp. 19-38
- A Problem of Paganism
- pp. 39-54
- THE ‘PAGAN’ DIRC VAN DELF
- pp. 167-194
- CALLIMACO ESPERIENTEE IL PAGANESIMO
- pp. 195-206
Additional Information
ISBN
9789461661173
Related ISBN(s)
9789058679338
MARC Record
OCLC
899261706
Pages
250
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No