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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...and that popular Christianity, rather than institutional Christianity, incorporated stuff from elsewhere and before, varied and changed and was incredibly irksome to the Church but ultimately I would say popular Christianity still won out in the end.
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You can make as many rules as you want, but popular traditions have a lot of strength. I think popular religious belief is so interesting: Jacques Le Goff’s book on purgatory is a good example
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