Plagues, Priests, and Demons (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521840781)

This comparative interdisciplinary study of the rise of Christianity in the late Roman Empire and in colonial Mexico reveals that epidemic disease undermined pre-Christian societies, contributing respectively to pagan and Indian interest in new forms of social and religious life. Christian clerics and monks in early medieval Europe and, later, Jesuit missionaries in colonial Mexico, reacted by introducing new beliefs and practices and accommodating indigenous religions as well.

Author: Daniel T. Reff
ISBN-10: 0521840783
ISBN-13: 9780521840781
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2004
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.90d