The Sacred Palace, Public Penance, and the Carolingian Polity1
M.B. de Jong
The concept of the “sacred palace” provides us with a key to understanding how Carolingian kings and emperors understood their roles in relation religion church, for they did not consider church state be fundamentally separate or mutually antagonistic domains. Furthermore, without royal religious authority, we cannot properly interpret role public penance during reign emperor Louis, Charlemagne’s son successor. In this exploration wider context ruler’s interdependence ecclesia body politic ninth century is discussed. French translation text was published as “Sacrum palatium et ecclesia. L’autorité religieuse royale sous les Carolingiens (790-840)” Annales HSS, 58.6 (2003): 1243–69. It has been updated present scholarship, but some suggestions further reading have added.
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