Ecclesiastical Organization Under Royal Authority
Marshall W. Baldwin
The following selection (including parts of the Preface and certain chapters) from Charlemagne’s general instructions, issued in 789, illustrates Carolingian conception theocratic monarchy king’s own view his responsibility for spiritual as well temporal welfare people. “canonical ordinances” which he mentions constituted a collection canons (the Dionysio-Hadriana) king had received Pope Hadrian I. Some 80 prescriptions on various aspects religious life followed. A dozen or so years later (802), these were further implemented detailed instructions to missi.
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