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Here are a few, mostly in French and mostly for the early middle ages
(unfortunately, they deal almost entirely with "superstition" and
"survivals" of paganism, that is, disapproved forms of pop.
religion/culture)that may be useful for background only, since none relate
directly to Denmark.
Boglioni, Pierre, "Pour l'etude de la religion populaire au moyen age: Le
probleme des sources." In J.-M. R. Tillard et al, Foi populaire, foi
savant, 93-148. Ottawa & Paris: 1976.(lists and evaluates sources as to
relevance, accessiblity, etc.)
Geary, Patrick. Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages. Ithaca and London,
1994. (several of the essays).
Kunzel, Rudi. "Paganisme, syncretisme et culture religieuse du haut moyen
age. Reflexion de methode," Annales ECS 4-5 (1992) 1055-1069. (Proposes v.
useful criteria for evaluating data in the written sources the validity of
which was sharply criticised by D. Harmenin.).
LeGoff, Jacques. "Culture clericale et traditions folkloriques dans la
civilisation merovingienne." In Pour un autre moyen age, 223-235. Paris, 1977.
Manselli, Raoul. La religion populaire au moyen age. Probleme de methode et
d'histoire. Paris, Montreal, 1975. (This is a pioneering work, pretty badly
lambasted by a critic -whose name I forget- in, I think, Speculum).
Meslin, Michel. "Du paganisme aux traditions populaires." In A. Akoun, ed.,
Mythes et croyances du monde entier, v.1, 153-200. Paris, 1985.
Schmitt, Jean-Claude. "Les 'superstitions'." In J. LeGoff and R. Redmond,
Histoire de la France religieuse, v. 1, 416-551. Paris, 1988. (Very
thorough; especially useful for the background on the eccles.
interpretation of "superstition".)
Harmening, Dieter. Superstitio. Uberlieferungs- ..... Berlin, 1979.
(Critique of the validity of the written sources for paganism and
superstition in the early m.a.).
Vogel, Cyrille. "Pratiques superstitieuses au debut du XIe siecle d'apres
le Corrector sive medicus' du Burchard de Worms." In Melanges E. R.
Labande, 751-761. Poitiers, 1974. (summary, without interpretation, of the
most complete catalogue of superstitions in this period).
Almost anything that LeGoff and Schmitt have written are well worth a look
for popular religion - esp. Schmitt's book on Le saint levrier - I can't
put my hand on the bibliographic reference at the moment. Have you looked
at the proceedings of the Settimane de studio . . . in Spoleto?
Good luck.
Bernadette Filotas
At 08:07 PM 4/17/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>From: "Mikkel Bencke" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: introducing myself
>>Date: Mon, Apr 17, 2000, 6:09 PM
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>>Please let me introduce myself with a few words:
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>>I am a history student from the university of Aarhus, Denmark.
>>I have spent five terms studying theology, however my devotion to the
>>history of the medieval church convinced me that I should change for
>>history.
>>This year I am making a study of the tension between the institutional and
>>the popular religion in medieval Europe: a field of study almost ignored by
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>>danish medieval research until recently.
>>So far my books have been by R.N. Swanson, John Shinners, R.W. Southern, B.
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>>Hamilton, Per Ingesman, Lars Bisgaard and others.
>>Thank you,
>>Mikkel Bencke
>>Aarhus, Denmark
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