- Hardcover: 472 pages
- Publisher: Clarendon Press; 1st Edition edition (15 Dec 1983)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198269064
- ISBN-13: 978-0198269069
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,607,733 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Must be greeted with enthusiasm. Its author is the most distinguished living historian writing in England about early medieval Europe."--History
"A necessary and thus a welcome book....Likely to be the standard English-language treatment of the Frankish Church until the end of the century."--Theological Studies
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This survey of the development of the Frankish Church under the Merovingian and Carolingian kings (approximately AD 500 - 900) is the first of its kind to appear in English. It is not a story of unimpeded advance towards the Church of medieval France but rather of painful adaptation. It takes account of unsolved problems: the reaction of the Church to heresy, to Judaism, to the Frankish ethos of marriage, and to the conversion of peoples outside Francia itself. Special attention is paid to the intellectual interests of churchmen and to the role of the vernacular in transmitting the Christian message to clergy and laity whose Latin was negligible or nil. Much turned on the authority of a succession of rulers who combined deep piety with material needs that were inimical to the Church's position as a great landowner. The advance of the Church was thus hesitant and often baulked. What emerges is the Churchmen's increasing resolve to unite against the pressures of lay domination, and to press forward with their basic duties as converters and teachers.
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Wallace-Hadrill has produced a work of great value, illuminating numerous themes regarding the Frankish church in this period, whilst providing significant disscusions into difficult issues. This period is difficult to understand due to the radically different mind-sets of the Franks. The cult of Saints, and the relic culture of Merovingian Gaul, are very difficult to appreciate in a modern context, yet Hadrill's work is easy to follow without compromising on content. I am currently researching my dissertation for my degree, and this work has time and again been a valuable reference and source of enlightenment, without which the process would have been far more complicated.
Of particular interest was his insights into the minorities of the kingdom, notably the Jewish population, and the Gallo-Romans, and the reaction of the catholic church towards them. The contrast in reaction to the arians before the end of the sixth century here is worthy of note.
Certainly this text should not be taken as a stand alone work, as no historian is without bias. James's 'The Franks', and Wood's 'Merovingian Kingdoms' are also valuable for students. However in terms of quality and apprachability i prefer Hadrill. Don't take my word for it, make this text a priority read if you are interested in this period.
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History at its Best
26 Jan 2002
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J.M. Wallace-Hadrill's "The Frankish Church" is history at its best. Although I have hundreds of works to read to prepare for my qualifying examinations in medieval history, I would not resist lingering over this book due its depth and richness. Prof. Wallace-Hadrill, a pre-eminent name in late antique studies, has produced both a professional historian's dream of insight and sources, but also a panoramic view of the intellectual world of what is called the 'Carolingian Renaissance'. Imbedded in this book are insightful studies of the dominant minds of the late 8th and 9th century - Alcuin, Walafrid Strabo, Paul the Deacon, Einhard, Hrabanus Maurus, Lupus of Ferrieres, Gottschalk, the two Hincmars, and John Scotus Eriugena. This both a detailed survey of an important period and also a review of the important ideas and achievements of that period. [....] James C. Crinean
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