Inventing paganism in eighth-century Bavaria
Jonathan Couser
This article examines the hagiographies of Saints Emmeram and Corbinian synod Neuching from eighth‐century Bavaria. It argues that references to pagan survivals in these texts are misleading, absence other evidence paganism region. Rather, since were composed a narrow window time 769–774, this anxiety reflects concerns aroused by uprisings neighbouring Carantania, which only suppressed 772. Thus, texts' authors ‘invented’ their own culture as perceptions dividing lines between Christianity grew sharper.
Early Medieval Europe