Water and the Word, Volume I: Baptism and the Education of the Clergy in the Carolingian Empire: A Study of Texts and Manuscripts

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. As a corpus, read in comparison to one another, the baptismal tracts tell how baptism was celebrated and interpreted across Carolingian Europe. At the same time, in their manuscript...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268019657
• ISBN13: 9780268019655
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 10.4"