8 4 13 The Carolingians Reconstruct an Empire The Social Structures of Early Medieval Europe Nations and Europe Importance of Kin Importance of Lords not just Kings Centralization Carolingians and Questions of Power in Early Medieval Europe The Rise of the Carolingians Charlemagne and Kingship Charlemagne s Creation of the Kingdom of the Franks What was the Kingdom of the Franks Why did it matter The tools for creating this kingdom The End of Charlemagne s Empire Internal Tensions and Divisions External Tensions Terms feudal manorial Carloman The Social Structures of Early Medieval Europe Nations and Europe Importance of Kin 1 8 4 13 Importance of Lords Centralization Depiction of the 3 Orders of Feudal Society Carolingians and Questions of Power in Early Medieval Europe Rise of the Carolingians Merovingians Latifunda Charlemagne on a horse Charles Martel becomes permanent mayor of the palace 717 Coronation of Charlemagne 13th c ms 2 8 4 13 Burghard bishop of Wurzburg and the chaplain Fulrad of St Denis were sent by Pippin also spelled Pepin to Pope Zachary to ask him about the kings in Frankland who at that time had no royal power Was this right or not Pope Zachary replied to Pippin that it was better for the man who had power to be called king rather than one who remained without royal power and to avoid a disturbance of the right ordering of things he commanded by apostolic authority that Pepin Pippin should become king Charlemagne and Kingship Charlemagne s Creation of the Kingdom of the Franks What was the Kingdom of the Franks Why did it matter 3 8 4 13 Tools for creating this kingdom Cultural and Moral Tools Christianity and the Carolingian Renaissance Pope Gelasius I Charlemagne Pope Gregory the Great Expanding literary culture and recopying ancient manuscripts Development of a uniform clear script the Carolingian miniscule 4 8 4 13 Economic Tools Uniform coinage Bureaucratic and Military Tools Establishing a capital Aix laChapelle or Aachen 5 8 4 13 Developing the missi dominici Lastly therefore we desire all our decrees to be known in our whole kingdom through our missi now sent out either among the men of the church bishops abbots priests deacons canons all monks or nuns so that each one in his ministry or profession may keep our ban or decree or where it may be fitting to thank the citizens for their good will or to furnish aid or where there may be need still or correcting anything Likewise also to the laymen and in all places everywhere whether they concern the guardianship of the holy churches or of widows and orphans and the weaker or the robbing of them or the arrangements for the assembling of the army or any other matters how they are to be obedient to our precept and will or how they observe our ban or how each one strives in all things to keep himself in the holy service of God so that all these good things may be well done to the praise of omnipotent God and we may return thanks where it is fitting But where we believe there is anything unpunished we shall so strive to correct it with all our zeal and will that with God s aid we may bring it to correction both for our own eternal glory and that of all our faithful Likewise we desire all the above to be fruitfully known by our counts or centenarii our ministerials 6 8 4 13 Symbolic anointing and the emperor Coronation Christmas Day 800 The End of Charlemagne s Empire Internal Tensions and Divisions Treaty of Verdun 843 7 8 4 13 External Tensions 8
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