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Author Phelan, Owen Michael, author

Title The formation of Christian Europe : the Carolingians, baptism, and the imperium Christianum / Owen M. Phelan
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Summary This work 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 10, 2014)
Subject Carolingians.
Baptism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Baptism -- Middle Ages
Carolingians
SUBJECT Europe -- Church history -- 600-1500. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045634
France -- History -- To 987. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051257
Subject Europe
France
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
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