The Punishment Imperative and the Construction of Political Authority in the Carolingian Empire of Louis the Pious (814–840)
Karl Ubl
Historians of the Carolingian empire have generally neglected judicial violence as a means constructing political authority, partly because wergild system seems to exclude significance public punishment, military is such dominant factor in our view Carolingians. This certainly true for early Carolingians, but gained importance during reign Charlemagne, after expansion had come an end. In contrast his father who pushed implementation new forms corporal Louis Pious was committed high degree clemency towards rebels, criminals and evildoers that authority questioned discussion triggered about respective merits severity. this paper, I want assess conundrum conscience which inflicted upon by “double-bind” monastic abhorrence punishment Frankish royal legacy violence.
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