tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post3487788871433699241..comments2023-11-05T04:09:26.194-05:00Comments on e g r e g o r e s: Shocking! Actual scholarship on Pagan resistance and survival in Europe!Apuleius Platonicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11761230673724504084noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-5429586795344691422011-02-23T23:14:07.424-05:002011-02-23T23:14:07.424-05:00I ALWAYS appreciate reading lists like this. I rea...I ALWAYS appreciate reading lists like this. I read a couple books last year about the religious tides in the West – both pretty standard mainstream affairs. One was Norman Cantor’s “Civilization of the Middle Ages,” and the other Anthony Pagden’s “Worlds at War.”<br /><br />What was amazing for me was how much I didn’t know going in – even though I have a fairly good background in history. Islam’s influence on Europe, the importance of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the various Christian heresies and pre-Christian Mystery religions, the “pagan” natural religions on into our own era – the versions of Western Civ that we get are more often than not almost completely whitewashed of anything meaningful regarding these parallel traditions. <br /><br />Someday, I’ll be knowledgeable enough to speak on that. Someday, haha…<br /><br />Thanks again.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.com