The false belief that medieval peasants were somehow pagan, and that paganism survived in medieval Western Europe, is resilient in popular culture. What's sad is that searching for nonexistent paganism obscures what's really interesting - the weirdness of medieval Christianityhttps://twitter.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1199310876454608898 …
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But there seems to be some suggestion that “pagans” and Christians just lived side by side, due to burial practices and some vague textual references. The capital-C Church didn’t like it but regular folks probably dgaf that much.
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I haven't come across this one - must read. I note it focusses on the period 500-1000; I'd certainly agree that there were lingering traces of paganism up to the end of that period, largely as a result of Scandinavian colonisation
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I wouldn’t assign it entirely to Scandinavians. Plenty of pre-Viking invasion evidence, or just non-Viking stuff in general. But yeah, it is in the early period. The later medieval period though definitely speaks to as you say, the variety of Christian practices...
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Maybe but the conversion took place around 500 AD. Hundreds of years later is quite an ask.
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