Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion Festivals, Banqueting, and Divination

• Tác giả chính: Álvarez-Pedrosa, Juan Antonio (auth)
• Tác giả khác: Santos Marinas, Enrique (auth)
• Định dạng: Điện tử Chương của sách
• Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh
• Được phát hành: Arc Humanities Press 2023
• Loạt: Beyond Medieval Europe
• Những chủ đề: Shamanism, paganism & druidry; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Folklore, myths & legends; European history; Historical & comparative linguistics; Slavic peoples;Baltic peoples;folklore;pagan religions;early Middle Ages
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Tóm tắt

The authors comprehensively analyze all the available information regarding the ritual practices of Slavic pre-Christian religion that can be found in written medieval texts. After investigating every kind of reference to such practices, they offer a reconstruction of Slavic pre-Christian religion on the basis of these medieval testimonies. In doing so, they overcome the challenges presented by the fact that all of these sources are indirect, since the Slavs did not acquire literacy until they became Christians. Thus the writers of these texts mostly professed a monotheistic religion, being Christians and in some cases Muslims. The picture that they offer is biased and determined by their own faith. The present analysis innovatively combines testimonies from every Slavic area (Eastern, Western, and Southern), showing their mutual correspondences and emphasizing the relationship between the Slavic pre-Christian religion and its Indo-European roots.

Mô tả vật lý

1 electronic resource (134 p.)

số ISBN

BME-9781802701173
9781641892063

Truy cập

Open Access