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CONTENTS Preface ix Abbreviations xi INTRODUCTION 1 1. BAPTISM BY DESIRE 11 The Age of the Church Fathers 11 After the Fathers, before the Scholastics 25 The Twelfth Century: Canonists and Theologians to Mid-Century 27 The Twelfth Century: Peter Lombard and the Post-Lombardians 55 The Thirteenth Century 71 Conclusion 87 2. FICTIVE BAPTISM 91 The Taufmime 93 The Boys on the Beach 97 The Age of the Church Fathers 103 Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian Exegetes 119 The Norman Ruse 126 viii  Contents Publicists and Canonists 130 Reenter the Taufmime 146 The Twelfth Century: Theology to Mid-Century 152 The Later Twelfth Century: Peter Lombard and the Post-Lombardians 165 The Thirteenth Century: Theology to Mid-Century 180 The Mid-Thirteenth to the Early Fourteenth Century 188 Conclusion 217 3. FORCED BAPTISM 227 Late Antiquity 230 Medieval Jews 232 Preaching with an Iron Tongue: The Carolingians 250 Only the Saxons? 261 Preaching with an Iron Tongue: The Baltic Crusades 264 The View from the Ivory Tower: Canonists in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 279 The View from the Ivory Tower: Scholastic Theologians to the Early Fourteenth Century 292 Conclusion 311 AFTERWORD 319 Bibliography 327 Index 357 ...

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