Paganism and Pagan Survivals in Spain
Paganism and Pagan Survivals in Spain

Author: Stephen McKenna

Publisher:

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781770831827

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The purpose of the present study is to describe the struggle against paganism and pagan survival in Spain up to the fall of the Visigothic kingdom in 712. By paganism is here meant not only the worship of the pagan gods, but also the practices associated with pagan worship, such as astrology and magic. An attempt will be made to show the part that political, social and religious factors played in pagan survivals as well as to point out the various manifestations of paganism. This study, it is hoped, will throw light upon a phase of early Spanish history that has not hitherto been adequately treated. It will enable the reader to compare the paganism of Spain with that found in Africa, France, Germany and Italy, in as far as the extant sources and modern studies make such comparison possible.

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

Author: Bernadette Filotas

Publisher: PIMS

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 9780888441515

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"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."--BOOK JACKET