A Sacred Kingdom
Bishops and the Rise of Frankish Kingship, 300-850
Michael Edward Moore
Catholic University of America Press, 2011
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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