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The Essence of Taylor
No full text“Mallory Cheek and the rest of First North English Hall worship in community at a Monday chapel service.”https://pillars.taylor.edu/quintu23-essence/1003/thumbnail.jp
Fashion
No full text“Michael Hoover relaxing in his dorm room, 1st West Wengatz, watching Regular Show on an easy day after classes.”https://pillars.taylor.edu/quintu23-fashion/1014/thumbnail.jp
Food
No full text“Student Bingrou Guo grabbing some pasta to go for dinner in the LaRita Boren Campus Center.”https://pillars.taylor.edu/quintu23-food/1006/thumbnail.jp
Food
No full textTaylor recently made the switch from Pepsi to Coca-Cola products in the summer of 2022, in parallel with the most popular food option, Chick-Fil-A.”https://pillars.taylor.edu/quintu23-food/1014/thumbnail.jp
Residence Life
No full text“Angelica Felix is helping Gabby Fisher and Rachel Piscopo with Music Theory Homework in Center Suite on Twooge.”https://pillars.taylor.edu/quintu23-residence-life/1001/thumbnail.jp
Residence Life
No full text“When looking at the dorms you see it one way, from one side or an angle. Change the viewpoint and it looks completely different. (Feb. 21, 2023. Euler Parking lot)”https://pillars.taylor.edu/quintu23-residence-life/1005/thumbnail.jp
Technology
No full text“Intro to Photography students testing out their cameras around Metcalf Visual Arts Center.”https://pillars.taylor.edu/quintu23-technology/1006/thumbnail.jp
The Fight Against the Threat of Witchcraft and Paganism in Anglo-Saxon England
Get PDFUnlike the general assumption that England was completely Christianized after Augustine’s mission to the island, witchcraft and paganism thrived all throughout the Christian period of Anglo-Saxon history. Sources condemning witchcraft and paganism increased during the Danish raids in the mid-ninth century and beyond due to an increased sense of a perceived threat of paganism. King Alfred himself reacted to this threat by doing everything he could to strengthen his people in their Christian beliefs through education reform and his law code. The Church battled against the perceived threat through penitentials–which they used to discourage pagan practices. Lay-people fought against paganism sometimes by the simple act of confessing to their priests, and sometimes by taking protection from the perceived threat into their own hands like in the case of the anonymous widow from Ailsworth. While witchcraft prevailed throughout the entire pre-Alfred Anglo-Saxon period (ca 600-870), the Anglo-Saxons’ perception of the threat of paganism–especially during the Danish raids in the mid-ninth century–caused nearly all aspects of Anglo-Saxon Christendom to fight against paganism and witchcraft in their respective ways
