Paganism
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2023-06-18
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Paganism was a term used by Christians to describe various systems of non-Christian beliefs or practices from late antiquity through the medieval period and beyond. Essentially, all people who were not Christians or Jews were considered pagan. In practice, during the medieval period the term most often applied to Northern European German and Slavic peoples who had not yet converted to Christianity, but it could be used in many other contexts as well. Scholarly understanding of medieval paganism is complicated by the fact that most societies described as pagan left few if any written records, and Christian accounts of paganism are always polemical.
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This manuscript is published as Bailey, M.D., “Paganism,” in Routledge Resources Online – Medieval Studies 18 June 2023 (Version 1);3. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780415791182-RMEO26-1. Posted with permission.