Religious Franks: Religion and power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in honour of Mayke de Jong

Front matter\nContents\nList of figures\nPreface\nNotes on contributors\nList of abbreviations\nIntroduction\nPart I Defining royal authority: religious discourse and political polemic\n	The rhetoric of election: 1 Peter 2.9 and the Franks\n	Adopt, adapt and improve: dealing with the Adoptionist controversy at the court of Charlemagne\n	The ruler as referee in theological debates: Reccared and Charlemagne\n	The ruler with the sword in the Utrecht Psalter\nPart II Royal power in action: correctio\n	Reform and the Merovingian Church\n	‘… but they pray badly using corrected books’: errors in early Carolingian copies of the Admonitio generalis\n	Emendatio and effectus in Frankish prayer traditions\n	Alcuin, Seneca and the Brahmins of India\n	‘Et hoc considerat episcopus, ut ipsi presbyteri non sint idiothae’: Carolingian local correctio and an unknown priests’ exam from the early ninth century\n	Religious Saxons: paganism, infidelity and biblical punishment in the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae\n	An admonition too far? The sermon De cupiditate by Ambrose Autpertus\n	Three annotated letter manuscripts: scholarly practices of religious Franks in the margin unveiled\nPart III Monastic powerhouses and ­centres of learning\n	The Carolingians and the Regula Benedicti\n	Reichenau and its amici viventes: ­competition and cooperation?\n	Monte Cassino and Carolingian politics around 800\n	A mirror of princes who opted out: Regino of Prüm and royal monastic conversion\nPart IV Powerful bishops\n	Merovingian gospel readings in Northumbria: the legacy of Wilfrid?\n	Bishops in the mirror: from self-representation to episcopal model. The case of the eloquent bishops Ambrose of Milan and Gregory the Great\n	Charlemagne and the bishops\n	The Penance of Attigny (822) and the leadership of the bishops in amending Carolingian society\n	From Justinian to Louis the Pious: inalienability of church property and the sovereignty of a ruler in the the ninth century\n	Incest, penance and a murdered bishop: the legend of Frederic of Utrecht\nPart V Franks and Rome\n	Pippin III and the sandals of Christ:  the making and unmaking of an early medieval relic\n	Rulers, popes and bishops: the ­historical context of the ninth-century Cologne Codex Carolinus manuscript (Codex Vindobonensis 449)\n		A historical context: the 790s\n		Carolingian rivalries and the archiepiscopal see of Cologne\n		Historiography and memory in the later Carolingian world\n		Conclusion\n		Acknowledgements\n	Pope Nicholas I and the Franks: politics and ecclesiology in the ninth century\nBibliography\nIndex