Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Age of the Church Fathers
After the Fathers, before the Scholastics
The Twelfth Century: Canonists and Theologians to Mid-Century
The Twelfth Century: Peter Lombard and the Post-Lombardians
The Thirteenth Century
Conclusion
Chapter Two. Fictive Baptism
The Taufmime
The Boys on the Beach
The Age of the Church Fathers
Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian Exegetes
The Norman Ruse
Publicists and Canonists
Reenter the Taufmime
The Twelfth Century: Theology to Mid-Century
The Later Twelfth Century: Peter Lombard and the Post-Lombardians
The Thirteenth Century: Theology to Mid-Century
The Mid-Thirteenth to the Early Fourteenth Century
Conclusion
Chapter Three. Forced Baptism
Late Antiquity
Medieval Jews
Preaching with an Iron Tongue: The Carolingians
Only the Saxons?
Preaching with an Iron Tongue: The Baltic Crusades
The View from the Ivory Tower: Canonists in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
The View from the Ivory Tower: Scholastic Theologians to the Early Fourteenth Century
Conclusion
Afterword
Bibliography
Index