Placemaking and the Natural World
Martha Rampton
This chapter describes how idolatry manifested itself during the Carolingian period in many ways, and all of them had common natural world: idolatrous activities took place outside four walls church. Christian sacred spaces were “emplaced”—meaning they encoded. Churches enclosed, creating a zone where behaviors sculpted by long traditions hallowed ritual supervised clergy. On margins Anglo-Saxon polities areas such as Saxony, Frisia, Northumbria, overtly pagan communities flourished early period. Methods for evangelizing peoples from these regions much been centuries. In core lands England Europe, polytheistic cults, such, no longer existed, but certain rituals so like those that defined worship demon deities that, ministers, amounted to latent idolatry.
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