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The Christian Perception of Heathens in the Early Middle Ages by Bele Freudenberg; Hans-Werner Goetz is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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Whereas recent studies tend to emphasize a consequent development towards monotheism, Christianization was a long process with serious setbacks and paganism remained a vigorous power in the Early and High Middle Ages. 'Paganism' as a category, however, is a Christian construct. It is therefore important to analyse the Christian perception of paganism and pagans. In fact, Christian authors had a stereotyped while nevertheless clear concept of what paganism was: First and foremost paganism is, of course, seen in conjunction with idolatry as its most characteristic and significant feature, which, from Late Antiquity to the days of the missionary bishop Otto of Bamberg in Pomerania in the 12 th century, delimitates paganism from Christianity, to a degree that conversion to Christianity is frequently described as renunciation of the cult of idols. A second feature concerns the cult and the rites itself: paganism is associated with special places of worship, namely temples and sacred groves, particular trees, rocks or sources, and characterized by sacrifices (even human sacrifices) which were performed by certain priests. The third pagan feature is superstition and oracles, particularly
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- Author
- Bele Freudenberg; Hans-Werner Goetz
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)