Article: Baptism and Change in the Early Middle Ages, c. 200-c. 1150.

By Peter Cramer. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. New York: Cambridge University, 1993. Pp. xx + 356. $59.50.

Cramer surveys the principal Western liturgical sources from the Apostolic Tradition, the De baptismo of Tertullian, and the writings of Ambrose and Augustine through the Carolingian period to the middle of the twelfth century in an attempt to explain the various interpretations of baptism within differing historical, social, and cultural contexts. In addition, he provides two excursuses on the baptistery, liturgy, and city in Concordia Sagittaria and the wall paintings in that baptistery.

This work is less concerned with "changes" ...

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