The Frankish Church
J. M. WALLACE–HADRILL
This survey of the development Frankish Church under Merovingian and Carolingian kings (approximately AD 500 - 900) is first its kind to appear in English. It not a story unimpeded advance towards medieval France but rather painful adaptation. takes account unsolved problems: reaction heresy, Judaism, ethos marriage, conversion peoples outside Francia itself. Special attention paid intellectual interests churchmen role vernacular transmitting Christian message clergy laity whose Latin was negligible or nil. Much turned on authority succession rulers who combined deep piety with material needs that were inimical Church's position as great landowner. The thus hesitant often baulked. What emerges Churchmen's increasing resolve unite against pressures lay domination, press forward their basic duties converters teachers.