Religious Franks : religion and power in the Frankish Kingdom Ms : studies in honour of mayke de jong / Meens, Rob, Dorine van Espelo, Bram van den Hoven.

Introduction / Rosamond McKitterick -- The rhetoric of election: 1 Peter 2.9 and the Franks / Walter Pohl, Gerda Heydemann -- Adopt, adapt and improve. Dealing with the Adoptionist controversy at the court of Charlemagne / Rutger Kramer -- The ruler as referee in theological debates: Reccared and Charlemagne / Janneke Raaijmakers, Irene van Renswoude -- The ruler with the sword in the Utrecht Psalter / Bart Jaski -- Reform and the Merovingian Church / Ian Wood -- "... but they pray badly using corrected books": errors in early Carolingian copies of the Admonitio generalis / Marco Mostert -- Emendatio and effectus in Frankish prayer traditions / Els Rose -- Alcuin, Seneca, and the Brahmins of India / Yitzhak Hen -- 'Et hoc considerat episcopus, ut ipsi presbyteri non sint idiothae'. Carolingian local correctio and an unknown priests' exam from the early ninth century / Carine van Rhijn -- Religious Saxons: paganism, infidelity and biblical punishment in the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae / Robert Flierman -- An admonition too far? The sermon De cupiditate by Ambrose Autpertus / Max Diesenberger -- Three annotated letter manuscripts: scholarly practices of religious Franks in the margin unveiled / Mariken Teeuwen Mariken Teeuwen -- The Carolingians and the Regula Benedicti / Albrecht Diem -- Reichenau and its amici viventes: competition and cooperation? / Regine Le Jan -- Monte Cassino and Carolingian politics around 800 / Sven Meeder -- A mirror of princes who opted out. Regino of Prüm and royal monastic conversion / Erik Goosmann, Rob Meens -- Merovingian Gospel readings in Northumbria: the legacy of Wilfrid? / David Ganz -- Bishops in the mirror. From self-representation to episcopal model: the case of the eloquent bishops, Ambrose of Milan and Gregory the Great / Giorgia Vocino -- Charlemagne and the bishops / Janet Nelson -- The Penance of Attigny (822) and the leadership of the bishops in amending the Carolingian society / Philippe Depreux -- From Justinian to Louis the Pious: inalienability of church property and the sovereignty of a ruler in the ninth century / Steffen Patzold, Stefan Esders -- Incest, penance and a murdered bishop: the legend of Frederic of Utrecht / Bram van den Hoven van Genderen -- Pippin III and the sandals of Christ. The making and unmaking of an early medieval relic / Julia Smith -- Rulers, popes and bishops: the historical context of the ninth-century Cologne Codex Carolinus manuscript (Codex Vindobonensis 449) / Dorine van Espelo -- Pope Nicholas I and the Franks: politics and ecclesiology in the ninth century / Tom Noble.