This book aims to present Christian initiation in Spain during the antiquity and the Middle Ages. The various testimonies available to the historian presented one after another in a completeness. This is definitely the highlight of this book. However, if the sources are presented numerous, it stops there. The author merely quotes and briefly comment on the passages concerning Christian initiation he identified in his sources. No substantive reflection underpins a very flat presentation of data. You'd read a document inventory rather than historical. Everything quickly becomes tiresome, despite all the interest in the material presented and the rich reading of work by the author. The non-specialist may be quickly bored and do not perceive the interest of this book. As for those who hope to find a scholarly synthesis of Christian initiation, he will probably be disappointed by the lack of considerations on the historical, critical and detailed analysis of the sources presented and especially by the lack of a real problem . This book poses only very few questions and did not question the history of Christian initiation. The lack of depth and the imbalance between the number of texts presented and the weakness of the historical analysis are striking. Finally, the medium itself is poor. The paper looks shoddy and printing is irregular, many characters seem to disappear and are barely legible. Maybe it was only my copy but I doubt it.
I would recommend this book only to those who wish to have a convenient inventory of most texts on Christian initiation in Spain at that time. But we must not seek a stimulating synthesis.
