medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
--- CF <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I know it is not what you've asked, but your
> message reminded me of
> something I read on Peter Brown's _World of Late
> Antiquity _ and _The Cult
> of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages_
> about the transformation of
> the monuments (heroa) where heroes -such as Hercule-
> were celebrated and
> worshipped into Christian sites. I don't mean that
> the same monuments were
> used but the architecture and the ceremony was
> copied. It is interesting how
> those monuments turned into tombs -containing the
> remains of a saint- and
> were placed below altars.
Sometimes taking over the site or the monument.
Hermes often appeared with a lamb on his shoulders for
example and was simply reinterpreted as a Christ
figure as the Good Shepherd. And Gregory the Great
according to Bede advises taking over pagan temples,
stripping of their pagan symbols, "baptizing" them and
making them Christian churches.
What I'm in need of are literary allusions to this
practice/belief that would have survived into the
middle ages and been an influence on an author.
Thanks all who have replied and given bibliography,
I'll begin looking at these!
Larry Swain
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