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The formation of Christian Europe : the Carolingians, baptism, and the Imperium Christianum /

Analyses the Carolingians' efforts to form a Christian Empire with the organizing principle of the sacrament of baptism. Owen M. Phelan argues that baptism provided the foundation for this society, and offered a medium for the communication and the popularization of beliefs and ideas, through w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Phelan, Owen Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sacramentum : an ordering concept from antiquity to the early Middle Ages
  • The articulation of polity : baptism as the foundation of an Imperium Christianum
  • The Carolingian subject : the Sacramentum of baptism and the formation of identity in Alcuin of York
  • The Carolingian machinery of Christian formation : Charlemagne's encyclical letter on baptism from 811/812 and its implications
  • The sacramental assumption : baptism and Carolingian society in the ninth century
  • Conclusion: Loss and legacy.