Unity and Diversity in the Carolingian Church
Rosamond McKitterick
With their steady series of conquests during the eighth century, adding Alemannia, Frisia, Aquitaine, Lombard kingdom in northern Italy, Septimania, Bavaria, Saxony, and Brittany to Frankish heartlands Gaul, Carolingians created what Ganshof regarded as an unwieldy empire. Was Carolingian Church too? Recent work, notably that Janet Nelson, has underlined not only political ideologies helped hold realms together, but also practical institutions actions individuals government administration. Can same be done for Church? Despite extraordinary diversity world its ecclesiastical traditions, can it described a unity? What sense ‘Frankish Church’ or institutions’ detected sources?
Studies in Church History