De la mythologie scandinave au christianisme ...

Si je vous dis “croisade”, vous allez peut-être penser aux Templiers, aux Hospitaliers, ou encore aux Teutoniques. Ça, ce sont certainement les ordres religieux-militaires les plus connus ! Les plus connus peut-être, mais clairement pas les seuls. Il y en a eu beaucoup d’autres, ...  Show more

Vous allez pouvoir entendre dans quelques jours sur le podcast un entretien en compagnie de Philippe Josserand. Philippe, c’est un spécialiste des ordres religieux-militaires, et ce sera justement l’occasion de revenir ensemble sur leur histoire. Mais quand je vous parle de ces o ...  Show more

In the fourth century AD, the Christian faith exploded out of Palestine, overwhelming the paganism of Rome, converting the Emperor Constantine in the process. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion was deeply ingrained ...

Today I chat with Dr. Mathias Nordivg who teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Nordic Studies Program. He teaches Pre-Christian Nordic mythologies, Scandinavian folklore, North Atlantic and Greenlandic literature, reception history of the Viking Age, and much more ...  Show more

Working off an article about the inability of modern writers on the Vikings to understand their conversion to Christianity, the guys discuss the weaknesses of Norse religion and the answers Christianity offered them. Glenn tells a number of stories about Vikings and explains h ...

What myths did the Norse believe, and what influence did they exert on daily life? Was the trickster god Loki really that bad, and was Odin really that wise? And why is Christianity a crucial part of the story? Speaking to Kev Lochun, historian and broadcaster Eleanor Rosamund Ba ...  Show more