Pagan and Christian: Religious Change in Early Medieval Europe PDF
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Pagan and Christian DEBATES IN ARCHAEOLOGY Series editor: Richard Hodges Against Cultural Property John Carman Archaeology: The Conceptual Challenge Timothy Insoll Archaeology and International Development in Africa Colin Breen & Daniel Rhodes Archaeology and Text John Moreland Archaeology and the Pan-European Romanesque Tadhg O’Keeffe Beyond Celts, Germans and Scythians Peter S. Wells Bronze Age Textiles Klavs Randsborg Combat Archaeology John Schofield Debating the Archaeological Heritage Robin Skeates Early Islamic Syria Alan Walmsley Ethics and Burial Archaeology Colin Breen and Daniel Rhodes Gerasa and the Decapolis David Kennedy Houses and Society in the Later Roman Empire Kim Bowes Image and Response in Early Europe Peter S. Wells Indo-Roman Trade Roberta Tomber Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership Colin Renfrew Lost Civilization: The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and PortugalJames L. Boone Museums and the Construction of Disciplines Christopher Whitehead The Origins of the English Catherine Hills Pagan and Christian: Religious Change in Early Medieval Europe David Petts Rethinking Wetland Archaeology Robert Van de Noort & Aidan O’Sullivan The Roman Countryside Stephen Dyson Shipwreck Archaeology of the Holy Land Sean Kingsley Social Evolution Mark Pluciennik State Formation in Early China Li Liu & Xingcan Chen Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne Richard Hodges Villa to VillageRiccardo Francovich & Richard Hodges Pagan and Christian Religious Change in Early Medieval Europe David Petts Bristol Classical Press First published in 2011 by Bristol Classical Press an imprint of Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 36 Soho Square, London W1D 3QY, UK Copyright © 2011 by David Petts All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. CIP records for this book are available from the British Library and the Library of Congress ISBN 978-0-7156-3754-8 Typeset by Ray Davies Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne www.bloomsburyacademic.com Contents Acknowledgements 9 1. Early medieval religion in context 11 2. Approaching religion: archaeology and belief 30 3. Christianity and text 51 4. Deconstructing paganism 73 5. Religions in contact 97 Bibliography 117 Index 139 5 This page intentionally left blank To Jane, Isobel and Ned 7 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements This book has taken far longer to write than originally in- tended. This has been for domestic and intellectual reasons. The former have included two job changes, two house moves and two children. On the intellectual front, however, it rapidly became clear that inside this slim book lay a huge and sprawl- ing volume trying to escape. Much time was spent on writing text that never made the final cut, although hopefully this will emerge in other forms further down the line. If the writing of this book took a long time, many of the ideas addressed here go back much further. I have been thinking about archaeology and religion ever since I started a PhD on early Christian burial in Britain in the mid-1990s, although the frequent appearance of Martin Carver in this work reflects the profound, if unacknow- ledged, influence his work had on me as an overenthusiastic undergraduate over twenty years ago. Over the last fifteen years I have had a chance to explore and exchange thoughts about early medieval Christianity and pa- ganism with numerous colleagues and students. Many may not even be aware that our discussions have helped shape the arguments presented here. They have also been more than helpful in providing practical assistance, particularly in the shape of off-prints and pre-publication copies of new material – inevitably exciting and relevant papers and volumes appear in book catalogues just as one is trying to draw a line under one’s writing. In particularly I would like to thank Howard Williams and Sarah Semple in this respect. A special thanks must also go to Deborah Blake of Bristol Classical Press for astounding levels of patience. 9
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