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Zusatztext lucidly organized and thoroughly researched. Indeed, it serves as a model of its kind ... With this admirable contribution to the scholarly literature on the Carolingian era, a reader can find little to quarrel ... there is no fault in this work's worthy substance. Informationen zum Autor Owen Phelan is Associate Professor of Church History at Mount Saint Mary's University. Dr. Phelan works on Church History, History of Christianity, and Medieval History. He specializes in the study of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. He is the co-editor of Rome and Religion in the Medieval World: Studies in Honor of Thomas F.x. Noble with Valerie L. Garver (Ashgate, 2014). Klappentext This book is a study of the Carolingians' efforts to form a Christian Empire with the organizing principle of the sacrament of baptism. Dr Phelan argues that baptism offered a medium for the communication and popularization of beliefs and ideas, through which the Carolingian Renewal established the vision of an imperium christianum in Europe. Zusammenfassung This book is a study of the Carolingians' efforts to form a Christian Empire with the organizing principle of the sacrament of baptism. Dr Phelan argues that baptism offered a medium for the communication and popularization of beliefs and ideas, through which the Carolingian Renewal established the vision of an imperium christianum in Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Sacramentum: An Ordering Concept from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages 2: The Articulation of Polity: Baptism as the Foundation of an Imperium Christianum 3: The Carolingian Subject: The Sacramentum of Baptism and the Formation of Identity in Alcuin of York 4: The Carolingian Machinery of Christian Formation: Charlemagne's Encyclical Letter n Baptism from 811/812 and its implications 5: The Sacramental Assumption: Baptism and Carolingian Society in the Ninth Century Conclusion: Loss and Legacy Bibliography Index ...
