gentilism

Related to gentilism: genteelism

gentilism

(ˈdʒɛntɪlɪzəm)

heathenism

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gentilism

the state or quality of being non-Jewish, and especially a heathen or pagan. — gentile, n., adj.

See also: Judaism

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Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.

Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

John Buchanan-Brown), Three Prose Works (Miscellanies, Rernaines of Gentilism, Observations), (Centaur Press, 1972); Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, (ed.

The Discovery of Second Sight in Late 17th-Century Scotland

Greek and Russian Orthodoxy receive scant consideration under "Moscovia." In his consideration of Africa, caught between the disproportionate prevalence of "Mohammadism" (i.e., Islam) and the pervasiveness of Gentilism, especially interesting are his allusions to the Portuguese reaching out to the Grand Negus of Abyssinia, whom he associates with the followers of the mythical figure of Prester John.

Geography and Empire in the Late Renaissance. Botero's Assignment, Western Universalism, and the Civilizing Process [*]

Oakley, Francis, Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050).