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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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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Yes! There's so to gain in how we think about these things by deconstructing the binary between "popular culture" & "high culture" in medieval Christianity. (Again, I'm a broken record on this, but this is part of my approach with apocrypha.)
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