True Teachers and Pious Kings: Salzburg, Louis the German, and Christian Order
Shiona Airlie
Abstract The church of Salzburg in the Carolingian era can easily appear as a missionary station focused on frontiers empire. Writing to his friend Arn, bishop and after 798 archbishop Salzburg, Alcuin referred latter’s proximity ‘frontiers Christian empire’. was concerned with work conversion among pagan Avars, whose military power had just been broken by might. A century later one Am’s successors, Archbishop Theotmar (873-907), wrote pope express anger at savage behaviour Hungarians which threatened culture Pannonia. Theotmar, together two other Bavarian bishops host warriors, fact perish battle against Pressburg (Bratislava) 907.
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