FORMATION OF CHRISTIAN EUROPE C

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).

- 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