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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.