Paganism in the Middle Ages: Threat and Fascination - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9058679330 ISBN 13 : 9789058679338

Editeur : Leuven University Press, 2013

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

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)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Leuven University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 9058679330
• ISBN 13: 9789058679338
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 250