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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Phelan, Owen Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
To 1500
Christianity and culture > Europe > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Baptism > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Carolingians.
Baptême > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Église > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Carolingiens.
RELIGION > Christian Church > History.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Baptism > Middle Ages
Carolingians
Christianity and culture > Middle Ages
Church history > Middle Ages
Église > Histoire > Moyen âge.
Baptistes > Histoire > Moyen âge.
Karolinger.
Dopet.
Kyrkohistoria.
Europe > Church history > 600-1500.
France > History > To 987.
Europe > Histoire religieuse > 476-1492.
Europe
France
Europe > Église > Histoire > Moyen âge.
Church history
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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