HUMA 1875 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fourth Crusade, Filioque, Chalcedonian Definition
16 Jan 2018
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Born in 742 into the royal carolingian house. Assumed the title of king of the franks in 768. Being a king was not all that. Charlemagne wanted he also wanted to revive the christian empire in the west and rule that domain. Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the romans by pope. He reformed the church within his realm, eliminating abuses, creating an efficiently run system of oversight and improving the education of the clergy. He also entered negotiation with the byzantine empire trying to re-establish the east west framework of the ancient roman empire. In the end his empire died with him as following his death his lands were divided among his sons and the holy roman empire became an ever changing kaleidoscope of glued together kingdoms and principalities. Created to settle the the vexing question of how the human and the divine were related in jesus.
