No CrossRef data available.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2014
1 Although Wilhelm Levison long ago attempted to dispel this image in his 1943 Ford Lectures published as England and the Continent in the Eighth Century (Oxford, 1946)Google Scholar.
2 For a recent summary, see Lauwers, Michel, “‘Religion populaire,’ culture folklorique, mentalités, notes pour une anthropologie culturelle du moyen age,” Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique 82 (1987): 221-–58Google Scholar.
3 Paxton, Frederick S., Christianizing Death: The Creation of a Ritual Process in Early Medieval Europe (Ithaca, N.Y., 1990)Google Scholar.
4 Head, Thomas, Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orleans, 800–1200 (Cambridge, 1990)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
5 Farmer, Sharon, Communities of Saint Martin: Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours (Ithaca, N.Y., 1991)Google Scholar.
6 As in the broadside fired by Van Engen, John, “The Christian Middle Ages as an Historiographical Problem,” American Historical Review 91 (1986): 519–52CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
7 Two of the most important attempts are Gurevich, Aron, Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Belief and Perception (Cambridge, 1988)Google Scholar; and Schmitt, Jean-Claude, Religione, folklore e società nell'Occidente medievale (Bari, 1988)Google Scholar.
8 On the particularly important continuity at Lorch, see Eckhart, Lothar, “Die Kontinuität in der lorcher Kirchenbauten mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kirche des 5. Jahrhunderts,” in Die Völker an der mittleren und unteren Donau im fünften und sechsten Jahrhundert, ed. Wolfram, Herwig and Daim, Falko (Vienna, 1980), pp. 23–27Google Scholar.