>From: Charles Giguere <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: AS paganism
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:50:29 -0500
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>Jonathan -
>
>Unlike you, I was not courteous enough to introduce myself on my first
>plunge into medieval-religion, so here goes. My name is Bernadette Filotas,
>and I am in the final throes of a doctoral dissertation on "pagan
>survivals" (with many apologies to anthropologists)in the early m.a., with
>pastoral literature (i.e., mostly canon law, sermons and penitentials)as
>main source, so my interests more or less coincide with yours. Yes, Bede is
>very frustrating from the point of view of AS paganism. As a beginning, you
>might try Ronald Hutton, Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles
>(Oxford and Cambridge, Mass., paperback ed. 1993)pp 246-280. It's popular
>history,the main purpose of which is to debunk "modern" paganism and pagan
>survivals, but lots of good stuff in it all around - a good read.
>
>I have been intrigued by St. Boniface's rather censorious remarks about his
>compatriots - their boozing, wenching, and (apparently) taste for fancy
>dress, not to mention the propensity of English women-pilgrims to come to a
>naughty end on the way to Rome . . . I haven't been able to find any
>references to work done on this and, if no one else has, should like to
>take a crack at it myself.
>
>Bernadette Filotas
>
I found very interesting the subject of your researches. I`m writing a
thesis about the christianization of Anglo Saxon by Augustine of Canterbury.
Can you suggest me something about relationships between the coming
christianity and pagan survivals in that region in the Augustine`s time?
such as some bibliography, ideas...?
Thank you very much
Conti Fabrizio
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