Cristianizzazione e culture fra tarda antichità e alto medioevo

The article emphasizes the need to find new epistemological categories in order to redefine the relationship between medieval history and religious history, which has been experiencing a crisis for almost forty years. After providing a broad historiographical overview and some concrete examples, the...

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Main Author: Canetti, Luigi 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:Italian
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Published: Il Mulino [2019]
In: Quaderni di storia religiosa medievale
Year: 2019, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 237-265
IxTheo Classification:CF Christianity and Science
KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBA Western Europe
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Cognitive Science
B Ethno-Linguistics
B history of religions
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Summary:The article emphasizes the need to find new epistemological categories in order to redefine the relationship between medieval history and religious history, which has been experiencing a crisis for almost forty years. After providing a broad historiographical overview and some concrete examples, the author suggests restarting from fields of research, such as the history of religions, ethno-linguistics, cognitive science and evolutionary biology, that have been able to underline the great heuristic potential in the study of religious experience on the basis of new explicative paradigms of cultural change.
ISSN:2785-1311
Contains:Enthalten in: Quaderni di storia religiosa medievale
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.32052/95676