TY - JOUR
AU - Lynch, Joseph H.
AB - 142 Reviews of Books tigate who constituted that audience or how it gods were on. They were always on the side of the big battalions. Surprised? changed over time. Cramer is aware that the triumph RICHARD E. MITCHELL of the doctrine of original sin and its corollary, the University uf Illinois, necessity of infant baptism, had profound conse­ Urbana-Champaign quences for the baptismal liturgy, but he underesti­ mates the degree to which those developments un­ dermined the sense of theater. In fifth-century Hippo, Bishop Augustine presided over rituals of Christian MEDIEVAL initiation-which were much more than baptism­ PETER CRAMER. Baptism and Change in the Early Middle that were public, lengthy, and filled with symbolism. Ages, c. 200-c. 1150. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval But in a rural church in medieval Europe, the baptism Life and Thought, fourth series, number 20.) New of an infant must have been very different theater York: Cambridge University Press. 1993. Pp. xx, 356. with a very different audience, conducted briefly in a $59.95. foreign language on a child for whom godparents had There is a need for a balanced history of the sacra­ to act and speak. ment of baptism in antiquity and the Middle 
TI - Peter Cramer. Baptism and Change in the Early Middle Ages, c. 200–c. 1150. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, fourth series, number 20.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1993. Pp. xx, 356. $59.95
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/100.1.142
DA - 1995-02-01
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SP - 142
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