Godparents and Kinship in Early Medieval Europe /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lynch, Joseph H., 1943-2008
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1986.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Verwantschap.
Peetouders.
Sponsors > Europe > History.
Kinship > Europe.
Sponsors.
Kinship.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Soteriology.
Parente > Europe > Histoire.
Parrains et marraines > Europe > Histoire.
Kinship > Europe > History.
Europe.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The historiography of spiritual kinship
  • Historiography to the 1880s
  • Historiography since the 1880s : the four traditions
  • Baptismal sponsorship in the ancient church, ca. 170 to ca. 500
  • The sponsorship of adults
  • The sponsorship of infants
  • The emergence of spiritual kinship in the west, ca. 500 to ca. 750
  • Caesarius of Arles
  • The spiritual family in frankish society
  • The proliferation of spiritual kinsmen
  • Spiritual kinsmen and sexual taboos
  • The cultural roots of the ban on sexual contact between spiritual kinsmen
  • The Carolingian synthesis
  • The godparent and the baptismal liturgy
  • The godparent and religious instruction
  • Spiritual kinship in western society.

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