Judith Herrin ? Carolingian Innovation From The Formation Of Christendom Essay, Research Paper
?Through efforts
Charlemagne?s father, Pippin, that dynasty dominated majority Western Europe ?
strong position, Aquitaine problematic, continues his father, Cahrles Martel?s
work. Pippin worked on church reforms: insistence Roman liturgical
forms, baptimisal and marriage rites, Sunday observance and uniform penance for
ecclesiastical offences ? local and international level of church organisation
? dynasty drew pn religious support, underlay consolidation of its rule. The idea of primogeniture to designate an heir was as
inconceivable as the eastern principle of establishing a co-emperor according
to imperial traitin