Water and the Word: Commentary v. 1 (Notre Dame. Keefe<|

Water and the Word Volume I\nby Susan A. Keefe\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Susan A. Keefe\nTitle: Water and the Word Volume I\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Anthologies: general\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press\nPublication year: 2002\nISBN-13: 9780268019655\nISBN-10: 0268019657\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nWater and the Word focuses on a genre of literature written for the education of the Carolingian clergy: Carolingian baptismal instructions. This literature has never been brought together and studied collectively in the context of the books in which it circulated. As a corpus, read in comparison to one another, the baptismal tracts tell how baptism was celebrated and interpreted across Carolingian Europe. At the same time, in their manuscript context.