The formation of Christian Europe : the Carolingians, baptism, and the Imperium Christianum / by Phelan, Owen Michael

Table of Contents: “…Sacramentum : an ordering concept from antiquity to the early Middle Ages -- The articulation of polity : baptism as the foundation of an Imperium Christianum -- The Carolingian subject : the Sacramentum of baptism and the formation of identity in Alcuin of York -- The Carolingian machinery of Christian formation : Charlemagne's encyclical letter on baptism from 811/812 and its implications -- The sacramental assumption : baptism and Carolingian society in the ninth century -- Conclusion: Loss and legacy.…”
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Godparents and Kinship in Early Medieval Europe / by Lynch, Joseph H., 1943-2008

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Medieval Christianity in practice /

Table of Contents: “…Baptismal practice in Germany /…”
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How the west was won : essays on the literary imagination, the canon, and the Christian middle ages for Burcht Pranger /

Table of Contents: “…De obitu Valentiniani : Abelard, Bernard of Clairvaux, and the canonization of Ambrose of Milan on baptism by desire /…”
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Post-Roman towns, trade and settlement in Europe and Byzantium.

Table of Contents: “…The rebellion of the nobles against the baptism of Khan Boris (865-866) --…”
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Byzantium, Pliska, and the Balkans /

Table of Contents: “…The rebellion of the nobles against the baptism of Khan Boris (865-866) --…”
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Growing up in the Middle Ages / by Newman, Paul B., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Birth and baptism -- Caring for infants and children -- Play -- Clothing and dress -- Care and discipline -- Formal education -- University education -- Training for a career and earning a living : peasants, craftsmen, merchants -- Training for a career and earning a living: the clergy and nobility -- Coming of age -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.…”

Godparents and kinship in early medieval Europe / by Lynch, Joseph H., 1943-2008

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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Infantry combat medics in Europe, 1944-45 / by Shilcutt, Tracy McGlothlin, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Chalkboard training -- Baptism of fire -- Combat reality -- The battalion aid station -- Day-to-day health -- Company aid men -- Conclusion.…”

Leaving the Jewish fold : conversion and radical assimilation in modern Jewish history / by Endelman, Todd M.

Table of Contents: “…Conversion in medieval and early modern Europe -- Conversion in the age of Enlightenment and Emancipation -- Conversion in the age of illiberalism -- Defection and drift, early- and mid-twentieth century -- Intermarriage and integration mid-century to the present -- Conversions of conviction -- Neither Jew nor Christian, new religions, new creeds -- In baptism's wake.…”
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The military leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046-1115 / by Hay, David J., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Matilda of Canossa and the 'investiture contest' -- going to Canossa : Matilda's rise to power, 1046-74 -- baptism by fire : the outbreak of war to the Battle of Sorbara, 1075-84 -- A 'feminine triumph' : Matilda's counterattack and the emperor's defeat, 1085-95 -- La gran contessa : Matilda's later campaigns, 1096-1115 -- 'Weakness of sex' : Matilda and medieval constructions of gender -- Conclusions : Matilda's campaigns and the study of women's military leadership.…”

The Radical Reformation /

Table of Contents: “…The Prague protest ; Sermon to the princes (or An exposition of the second chapter of Daniel) / Thomas Müntzer -- Letter from the community of Orlamünde to the people of Allstedt / Andreas Karlstadt -- Letter to Thomas Müntzer / Conrad Grebel -- Whether one should proceed slowly / Andreas Karlstadt -- A highly provoked defense / Thomas Müntzer -- Protest and defense / Felix Mantz -- To the assembly of the common peasantry / Anonymous -- On the law of God / Hans Denck -- On the mystery of baptism / Hans Hut -- The Schleitheim articles / Michael Sattler -- On the sword / Balthasar Hubmaier -- On the new transformation of the Christian life / Hans Hergot.…”

When women ruled the world : making the Renaissance in Europe / by Quilligan, Maureen, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: inalienable possessions and female power -- The device for succession -- The Mary Tudor pearl -- Three queens, one poet, and the republican counselor -- "Sister" queens, Mary Stuart and Elizabeth Tudor: the solid gold baptismal font -- Regicide, republicanism, and the death of Darnley -- Mary, Queen of Scots, eighteen years imprisoned in England -- A trap for two queens -- Catherine de' Medici: tolerance and terror -- Eight Valois tapestries: Catherine de' Medici's inalienable possession -- Phillip II: the bridegroom returns -- Epilogue: the gifts they gave -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”

Saving freedom : Truman, the Cold War, and the fight for western civilization / by Scarborough, Joe

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A strange little man -- America alone -- Greek fire -- Affairs of state -- Met at Armageddon -- The man from Missouri -- Gnawing away at Greece -- Steer clear of the foreign world -- Passing the torch -- A baptism of fire -- A new world order -- In this fateful hour -- Moving beyond Monroe -- A house divided -- Personnel is policy -- "You must kill all Americans" -- Eleven minutes -- Cold War dawn -- An America triumph -- Aftermath -- Appendix: Position and recommendations of the Department of State regarding immediate and substantial aid to Greece and Turkey.…”

The Radical Reformation /

Table of Contents: “…The Prague protest ; Sermon to the princes (or An exposition of the second chapter of Daniel) / Thomas Müntzer -- Letter from the community of Orlamünde to the people of Allstedt / Andreas Karlstadt -- Letter to Thomas Müntzer / Conrad Grebel -- Whether one should proceed slowly / Andreas Karlstadt -- A highly provoked defense / Thomas Müntzer -- Protest and defense / Felix Mantz -- To the assembly of the common peasantry / Anonymous -- On the law of God / Hans Denck -- On the mystery of baptism / Hans Hut -- The Schleitheim articles / Michael Sattler -- On the sword / Balthasar Hubmaier -- On the new transformation of the Christian life / Hans Hergot.…”
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Images and objects in ritual practices in medieval and early modern northern and central Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Table of contents; acknowledgements; introduction; part i; late medieval imagesand the variabilityof rituals; "to show that the place is divine"; the rosary and the wounds of christ; image, time and ritual; morian and merian. word and image; part ii; the gaze of power, the act of obedience; baptism and the king's coronation; in between the secular and the religious; images of hereditary succession; magic of presence; between act, image, and memory; part iii; the self-representation of thelate medieval cistercian abbot; memoria and sacral artin late medieval livonia.…”
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The place of the dead : death and remembrance in late medieval and early modern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Boyden -- Tokens of innocence: infant baptism, death and burial in early modern England / Will Coster -- The afterlives of monstrous infants in reformation Germany / Philip M. …”

World War I battlefield companion.

Table of Contents: “…1918 : the American Expeditionary Forces go to war -- Cantigny : baptism of fire -- Chateau-Thierry & Belleau Wood : defense of the Marne -- The Aisne-Marne offensive : going on the attack -- St. …”

Life in the slipstream : the legend of Bobby Walthour Sr / by Homan, Andrew M., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Georgia Peach Blossom; 2 Bobby and Blanche; 3 Prince of atlanta; 4 Bipartite Bicycling; 5 In the Slipstream; 6 Six Daze; 7 Gentlemen, Start Your Engines; 8 Twentieth Century Fox; 9 Cold Start, Big Money; 10 At the Edge of the Garden; 11 Sunday Preacher; 12 American Champion; 13 Back in Dixie; 14 Baptism of Blood; 15 Dixie Flyers; 16 L'Imbattable Walthour; 17 On Top of the World; 18 Sputtering Skyrocket; 19 Déjà Vu; 20 An American Superstar in Paris; 21 Crash and Burn; 22 Nine Lives; 23 Herr Walthour; 24 Russian Roulette Survivor; Notes; Index…”
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Paracelsian moments : science, medicine & astrology in early modern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Paracelsus and the boundaries of medicine in early modern Augsburg / Mitchell Hammond -- To be or not to be a Paracelsian : something spagyric in the state of Denmark / Jole Shackelford -- "A spedie reformation" : barber-surgeons, anatomization, and the reformation of medicine in Tudor London / Lynda Payne -- Seeing "microcosma" : Paracelsus's gendered epistemology / Hildegard Elisabeth Keller -- Paracelsus on baptism and the acquiring of the eternal body / Dane Thor Daniel -- Paracelsus and van Helmont on imagination : magnetism and medicine before Mesmer / Heinz Schott -- Unholy astrology : did Pico always view it that way? …”
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