id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 5x21td98h7f Owen Michael Phelan The Formation of Christian Europe: Baptism under the Carolingians 2008 .txt text/plain 221 8 31 I study the religious metaphors and theological concepts which underlie the political and social ideas common to a variety of early medieval texts including law codes, theological treatises, land charters, ethical instruction, ritual commentaries, chronicles and other narrative sources. Careful study of early medieval books, especially how early medieval writers juxtaposed different genres of literature structured to privilege the implications of baptism, strengthen my argument and ground my study in the material culture of the early Middle Ages. cache/5x21td98h7f.txt txt/5x21td98h7f.txt