Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
What does it mean to identify oneself as pagan or Christian in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages? How are religious identities constructed, negotiated, and represented in oral and written discourse? How is identity performed in rituals, how is it visible in material remains? Antiquity and th...
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2024
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| description | What does it mean to identify oneself as pagan or Christian in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages? How are religious identities constructed, negotiated, and represented in oral and written discourse? How is identity performed in rituals, how is it visible in material remains?
Antiquity and the Middle Ages are usually regarded as two separate fields of scholarship. However, the period between the fourth and tenth centuries remains a time of transformations in which the process of religious change and identity building reached beyond the chronological boundary and the Roman, the Christian and ‘the barbarian’ traditions were merged in multiple ways.
Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages brings together researchers from various fields, including archaeology, history, classical studies, and theology, to enhance discussion of this period of change as one continuum across the artificial borders of the different scholarly disciplines. With new archaeological data and contributions from scholars specializing on both textual and material remains, these different fields of study shed light on how religious identities of the people of the past are defined and identified.
The contributions reassess the interplay of diversity and homogenising tendencies in a shifting religious landscape. Beyond the diversity of traditions, this book highlights the growing capacity of Christianity to hold together, under its control, the different dimensions – identity, cultural, ethical and emotional – of individual and collective religious experience. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1322752025-08-12T05:14:39Z Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages Ritari, Katja Stenger, Jan Van Andringa, William paganism; Christianity; conversion; Middle Ages; Ancient Rome What does it mean to identify oneself as pagan or Christian in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages? How are religious identities constructed, negotiated, and represented in oral and written discourse? How is identity performed in rituals, how is it visible in material remains? Antiquity and the Middle Ages are usually regarded as two separate fields of scholarship. However, the period between the fourth and tenth centuries remains a time of transformations in which the process of religious change and identity building reached beyond the chronological boundary and the Roman, the Christian and ‘the barbarian’ traditions were merged in multiple ways. Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages brings together researchers from various fields, including archaeology, history, classical studies, and theology, to enhance discussion of this period of change as one continuum across the artificial borders of the different scholarly disciplines. With new archaeological data and contributions from scholars specializing on both textual and material remains, these different fields of study shed light on how religious identities of the people of the past are defined and identified. The contributions reassess the interplay of diversity and homogenising tendencies in a shifting religious landscape. Beyond the diversity of traditions, this book highlights the growing capacity of Christianity to hold together, under its control, the different dimensions – identity, cultural, ethical and emotional – of individual and collective religious experience. 2024-01-04T04:08:04Z 2024-01-04T04:08:04Z 2024-01-03T09:36:33Z 2023 book OCN: 1416255009 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86365 9789523690974 9789523690998 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/132275 eng AHEAD: Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86365/1/being-pagan-being-christian-in-late-antiquity-and-early-middle-ages.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86365/1/being-pagan-being-christian-in-late-antiquity-and-early-middle-ages.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86365/1/being-pagan-being-christian-in-late-antiquity-and-early-middle-ages.pdf Helsinki University Press 10.33134/AHEAD-4 10.33134/AHEAD-4 cf5d0b3e-caff-497f-94d0-292cc4b4fce2 9789523690974 9789523690998 341 Helsinki open access |
| spellingShingle | paganism; Christianity; conversion; Middle Ages; Ancient Rome Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages |
| title | Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages |
| title_full | Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages |
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