Loughborough Archaeological and Historical Society

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Special Event: The Ian Keil Memorial Lecture – Professor Ronald Hutton on ‘Pagan Goddesses Christian Europe’.

Professional historians are agreed that ancient paganism itself did not long survive the official conversion of Western Europe to Christianity. They are divided over how far it is possible to suggest that features of the old religions survived within Christian culture. This talk makes a fresh contribution to the debate, by looking at superhuman figures in medieval and early modern Christian Europe who do not seem to be survivals from ancient paganism but have nothing Christian about them either. It suggests that we need a new language to discuss Europe in these periods.’

This is only one of the many events we will be running this year – please see the programme on the website here