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Paganism and Pagan Survivals in Spain: Up to the Fall of the Visigothic Kingdom
Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. The purpose of the present study is to describe the struggle against paganism and pagan survival in Spain up to the fall of the Visigothic kingdom in 712. By paganism is here meant not only the worship of the pagan gods, but also the practices associated with pagan worship, such as astrology and magic. An attempt will be made to show the part that political, social and religious factors played in pagan survivals as well as to point out the various manifestations of paganism. This study, it is hoped, will throw light upon a phase of early Spanish history that has not hitherto been adequately treated. It will enable the reader to compare the paganism of Spain with that found in Africa, France, Germany and Italy, in as far as the extant sources and modern studies make such comparison possible.
128 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2011
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July 18, 2021
The book is good. It is of a rare straightforwardness and its only problems are the sometimes excessive details about the individual bishops and the repetitive nature of explanation of the magical crimes and their punishment. It could have expanded more into the background of magical practices before Christianity. It would also have been better to provide a timeline with the evidence of each practice.
After realizing this book is over 80 years old, the calling of Celts and Germanic "races" and the the author's serious uses of the concepts of "superstition" and "heresy", besides his clear preference of Catholicism over traditional religion becomes excusable.
The book is seriously dated, but it remains relevant due to the little presence of other complete works on paganism and magical practices in Iberia in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages.
I recommend it to the people who want to understand the connection between Iberian and European magical practices and pre-Christian religion
After realizing this book is over 80 years old, the calling of Celts and Germanic "races" and the the author's serious uses of the concepts of "superstition" and "heresy", besides his clear preference of Catholicism over traditional religion becomes excusable.
The book is seriously dated, but it remains relevant due to the little presence of other complete works on paganism and magical practices in Iberia in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages.
I recommend it to the people who want to understand the connection between Iberian and European magical practices and pre-Christian religion
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