The Frankish Church (Oxford History of the Christian Church)

✍ Scribed by J. M. Wallace-Hadrill

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 488
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This survey of the development of the Frankish Church under the Merovingian and Carolingian kings (approximately AD 500 - 900) is the first of its kind to appear in English. It is not a story of unimpeded advance towards the Church of medieval France but rather of painful adaptation. It takes
account of unsolved problems: the reaction of the Church to heresy, to Judaism, to the Frankish ethos of marriage, and to the conversion of peoples outside Francia itself. Special attention is paid to the intellectual interests of churchmen and to the role of the vernacular in transmitting the
Christian message to clergy and laity whose Latin was negligible or nil.

Much turned on the authority of a succession of rulers who combined deep piety with material needs that were inimical to the Church's position as a great landowner. The advance of the Church was thus hesitant and often baulked. What emerges is the Churchmen's increasing resolve to unite against the
pressures of lay domination, and to press forward with their basic duties as converters and teachers.

✦ Table of Contents

COVER
PREFACE
CONTENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
I. GALLO-ROMAN PRELUDE
II. FROM PAGANISM TO CHRISTIANITY
III. THE CONTRIBUTION OF HISTORY
IV. THE MEROVINGIAN CLOISTER
V. THE MEROVINGIAN SAINTS
VI. THE CHURCH IN COUNCIL
VII. THE MEROVINGIANS AND THE PAPACY
VIII. THE BURDEN OF PROPERTY
IX. THE MAKING OF THE GERMAN CHURCH
X. PIPPIN III AND THE PULL OF ROME
XI. CHARLEMAGNE
i. The Metropolitan Line
ii. The Inner Circle
XII. RECEIVED WISDOM
i. Alcuin
ii. Theodulf
XIII. THE NEW ISRAEL AND ITS RULERS
i. Louis the Pious
ii. Charles the Bald
XIV. REFORM AND ITS APPLICATION
i. Legislation and Exhortation
ii. The Bishops and Reform
iii. An Exemplary Bishop: Hincmar
XV. THE USES OF LEARNING
i. A Classical Scholar: Lupus of Ferrières
ii. Scholarship, the Bible and the Liturgy: Hraban Maur, Walahfrid, Amalar
iii. Collective Learning: the Eastern Courts and Centres
iv. Collective Learning: the West
v. Deviation and Exploration
vi. The Vernaculars
XVI. THE CHURCH AND SOME UNSOLVED PROBLEMS
i. The Jews and Their Religion
ii. The Church and the Marriage Bond
iii. Exterae Gentes
BIBLIOGRAPHY
MAP
INDEX