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

Bernadette Filotas

ST 151. 2005. x, 438 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–151–5 • $89.95

This study explores early medieval popular culture as it appeared in ecclesiastical and secular law, sermons, penitentials, and other pastoral works – a selective but illuminating record of the beliefs and practices of ordinary Christians from circa 500 to 1000 AD.

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