HIST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Childeric Iii, Pepin The Short, Merovingian Dynasty
29 Nov 2011
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Christmas day a. d. 800 old st. peter"s rome. The frankish king charlemagne is in rome attending mass in st. peter"s. As he kneels down to participate, the pope produces a crown which is placed on his head. Charlemagne, the carolingian empire and the birth of europe. No figure from the middle ages has impressed himself more powerfully and enduringly upon the consciousness of posterity than charlemagne. *france comes to rome and takes over to make it part of france. The stronger group of the germanic people. Converted to the right brand of christianity orthodox christianity. This lead to more power lead through the church. Which gave clovis and the franks an upper hand then the other. Germanic people that converted to the other sects of. Do nothing kings"? family removed them from power. They didn"t do anything, just lived their life decedantly until another.
