A Cyborg Initiation? Liturgy and Gender in Carolingian East Francia
Felice Lifshitz
Every event and action (including thought) occurs in a particular place.1 Nevertheless, that fact is not accorded equal weight all historical explorations. While the preferred method among economic social historians immersion archival sources of indisputable relevance to given locality, scholars who specialize other aspects life have less often considered attention local variety as sine qua non their methodology. Whereas certain religious belief practice, most notably saints’ cults, been subjected or regional analysis,2 scholarship on another key facet experience, namely liturgy, has relatively impervious importance specificity. Rather than looking for variety, Christian liturgy generally primarily interested construction regionally undifferentiated emplotments change over time. With specific reference history baptism, common trajectory runs follows: Augustine Hippo’s doctrine congenitally transmitted Original Sin soon leads universal introduction infant baptism occurring after an individual birth, practice strips ethical content from baptismal rite, rendering it operation performed passive baby, well ceremony concerned with reation fictive kinship bonds active adults.3
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