By Halfond
ISBN-10: 9004179763
ISBN-13: 9789004179769
Among the reigns of Clovis and Charlemagne (AD 511-768) at the very least 80 ecclesiastical synods assembled within the country of the Franks. This e-book defines the features and modus operandi of the Frankish church council as an administrative physique.
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Despite important institutional and legislative innovations between 511 and 768, the prevailing continuities necessitate looking at this period as a unified epoch. Frankish councils certainly adapted as circumstances warranted, but even their transformative experiences took place in the context of their Gallo-Roman origins. Conciliar evidence has been, and continues to be, heavily mined for evidence by scholars of the Frankish kingdoms. However, it is impossible to adequately evaluate this material unless we first understand the institution and individuals who fashioned it.
18 introduction auxiliary sources, such as narrative histories, chronicles, charters, and hagiographies. This was not always the case. During the classical period of conciliar studies, which stretched from Jacques Merlin’s first collection of 1524 through the publication of Giovanni Domenico Mansi’s thirtyone-volume Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima Collectio between the years of 1759 and 1798, the primary objective of scholars such as Jacques Sirmond (pub. 1629), Philippe Labbe and Gabriel Crossart (pub.
Chapter 2 of this study situates the Frankish councils within their physical environment, thereby emphasizing both their connection to the world outside the meeting hall, as well as the amount of planning, time, and hardships that participating bishops had to endure for the sake of gathering with their brethren. Such an exertion of effort is highly suggestive of the 105 The Visigothic councils of Toledo have received more scholarly attention as an institution than those of Francia. For the most recent interpretation of their history, see Rachel Stocking, Bishops, Councils, and Consensus in the Visigothic Kingdom (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000).