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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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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The whole idea of "medieval popular culture" examined by folks like Le Goff & Schmidt (on Guinefort) went out of style for a while, but it seems to be making a come-back of sorts.
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