Water and the Word: Baptism and the Education of the Clergy in the Carolingian Empire: Baptism and the Education of the Clergy in the Carolingian Empire: A Study of Texts and Manuscripts - Rilegato

Keefe, Susan A.

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ISBN 10: 0268019657 ISBN 13: 9780268019655

Casa editrice: Univ of Notre Dame Pr, 2002

Riassunto

Water and the Word focuses on a genre of literature written for the education of the Carolingian clergy: Carolingian baptismal instructions. This literature has never been brought together and studied collectively in the context of the books in which it circulated. This comprehensive study has three major objectives. One is to describe the codices in which the baptismal instructions are found, in order to show with what other kinds of material the baptismal tracts were associated and where, how, and by whom these codices were intended to be used. Another is to bring together the baptismal texts and study them systematically. Finally, a third objective is to interpret the Carolingian Reform in light of the baptismal instructions and the manuscripts in which they were copied. Volume 1 of this two-volume set is devoted to analysis and interpretation of the material in volume 2. It is divided into three parts. The first part is concerned with the manuscript context of the baptismal instructions. In the second, the baptismal expositions themselves are analyzed. Part 3 of volume 1 offers some conclusions about the Carolingian Reform. Volume 2 contains the Latin text of sixty-six manuscripts.

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L'autore

Susan A. Keefe is associate professor of church history at Duke University.

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• Editore: Univ of Notre Dame Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0268019657
• ISBN 13: 9780268019655
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 208