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Over a period of some five centuries, Europe was transformed by the
emergence of barbarian kingdoms in the regions of the former Roman
Empire. In the turbulent post-Roman world, the Christian church and
its bishops had considerable sway, as these kingdoms developed new
institutions such as Christian kingship. Warlike kingdoms competed
with each other and took on projects of political consolidation,
religious accommodation, and conversion. Religious imperatives
shaped the understanding of political culture, alongside
aristocratic consensus and cooperation. The Franks ultimately
dominated Europe and built a great empire, pursuing a doctrine of
missionary warfare. Carolingian kings and nobles were mobilized by
a religiously saturated ideology and by the appeal of an aggressive
and expansionist political order. Throughout these changes, bishops
played a guiding role. Their special garments, liturgies, and
hairstyle indicated their character as a priestly brotherhood, set
apart from the rest of society, whose task was to regulate the
affairs of men and ensure the benevolence of God. The function of
bishops as a cohesive religious order, and their collaboration with
kings, meant that their ideas had a special prestige. By their
blessings bishops could protect crops, houses, and even the kingdom
and its warriors. By their mastery of laws--canon, Roman, and
barbarian--the bishops grasped the right nature of the social order
and indicated to others God's plan for the world. Drawing on the
records of nearly 100 bishops' councils spanning the centuries,
alongside royal law, edicts, and capitularies of the same period,
this study details how royal law and the very character of kingship
among the Franks were profoundly affected by episcopal traditions
of law and social order.
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