The Frankish Church

by J.M. Wallace-Hadrill

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198269064
• ISBN13: 9780198269069
• Release Date: February 1984
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"