Godparents and kinship in early medieval Europe

Godparents and kinship in early medieval Europe / Joseph H. Lynch.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lynch, Joseph H., 1943-2008
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1986.
Series:ACLS Fellows' publications.
Subjects:
Sponsors > Europe > History.
Kinship > Europe > History.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Soteriology.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
Kinship
Sponsors
Kinship > Europe.
Peetouders.
Verwantschap.
Europe
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The historiography of spiritual kinship
  • Historiography to the 1880s
  • Historiography since the 1880s : the four traditions
  • Baptismal sponsorship in the ancient church, ca. 170 to ca. 500
  • The sponsorship of adults
  • The sponsorship of infants
  • The emergence of spiritual kinship in the west, ca. 500 to ca. 750
  • Caesarius of Arles
  • The spiritual family in frankish society
  • The proliferation of spiritual kinsmen
  • Spiritual kinsmen and sexual taboos
  • The cultural roots of the ban on sexual contact between spiritual kinsmen
  • The Carolingian synthesis
  • The godparent and the baptismal liturgy
  • The godparent and religious instruction
  • Spiritual kinship in western society.

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