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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493744903321

Autore

Bylina Stanisław

Titolo

Religiousness in the Late Middle Ages : Christianity and traditional culture in Central and Eastern Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / / Stanisław Bylina, Alex Shannon, Christopher James

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : Peter Lang GmbH, , 2019

ISBN

3-631-70844-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 pages)

Disciplina

270

Soggetti

Church history

Europe, Central Church history

Europe, Eastern Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Christianity in medieval Central and Eastern Europe - Christian influence on traditional folk culture - Folklore and its influence on Christian practices - Instruction in the Christian liturgy - Folk attitudes toward the sacred - Christian attitudes toward the sacred - Attitudes toward the afterlife - Heaven and damnation - Prayer and hymns in church - Preachers - Parochial schools - Magic - Everyday life - Blasphemers.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is devoted to the religiosity of the medieval Christian masses in Central and Eastern Europe and its relationship with the traditional cultures of that time. The author addresses such topics as the common instruction of the three prayers and the Decalogue, "Christian" magic in everyday life and images of heaven and eternal damnation.