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Belief and Religion in Barbarian Europe c. 350-700 (Hardcover, New)
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Belief and Religion in Barbarian Europe c. 350-700 (Hardcover, New)
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This ground-breaking study offers a new paradigm for understanding
the beliefs and religions of the Goths, Burgundians, Sueves, Franks
and Lombards as they converted from paganism to Christianity
between c.350 and c.700 CE. Combining history and theology with
approaches drawn from the cognitive science of religion, Belief and
Religion in Barbarian Europe uses both written and archaeological
evidence to challenge many older ideas. Beginning with a
re-examination of our knowledge about the deities and rituals of
their original religions, it goes on to question the assumption
that the Germanic peoples were merely passive recipients of
Christian doctrine, arguing that so-called 'Arianism' was first
developed as an 'entry-level' Christianity for the Goths. Focusing
on individual ethnic groupings in turn, it presents a fresh view of
the relationship between religion and politics as their rulers
attempted to opt for Catholicism. In place of familiar debates
about post-conversion 'pagan survivals', contemporary texts and
legislation are analysed to create an innovative cognitive
perspective on the ways in which the Church endeavoured to bring
the Christian God into people's thoughts and actions. The work also
includes a survey of a wide range of written and archaeological
evidence, contrasting traditional conceptions of death, afterlife
and funerary ritual with Christian doctrine and practice in these
areas and exploring some of the techniques developed by the Church
for assuaging popular anxieties about Christian burial and the
Christian afterlife.
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