La compleja conceptualización del paganismo en la Antigüedad Tardía

Abstract

The historiographical Late Antiquity space has allowed for some decades now delve into a number of complex issues related to Christianity, paganism and bindings. Also, issues of social history of language have become aware of the power of language and its relation to other forms of power. Our paper attempts to outline some relevant aspects arising from the African and Hispanic reading sources about the pagan religion. The work of Christian apologists focused on describing the pagan religion and to demonstrate that their myths and stories lacked credibility and that, ultimately, it was reasonable to abandon them. Later in time, when a new political order was imposed and strengthened the Church to come to power, the statutory language began to outline the forms of life that pagans and Christians shared. By the seventh century, the place changed from paganism to Christianity and his speech envisions a shift from something alive and in force to something dead.