Ideology Of Power Essay, Research Paper

Royalty ? new power church- personal was the

political ? new goals of conduct and self-control ? Kings claimed a new

authority and in imposing sexual restraint on the people incorporating

church canons into own legislation, king claimed new powers. Role of ecclesiastical especially papal in creating

new legitimacy through new ritual of consecration ? welfare statism,

multi-gentile empire all from Old Testament ? Barbarian history

appreciation military strength ? ideas from Northumbria and Ireland etc ?

ideology was more eclectic and international.? Merovingians also looked for dive grace and favour ? third

continuity was basis in a gens or people ? bonding of ruler and ruled. ?

role of Frankish aristocracy n advent Carolingian dynasty, involvement

wider constituency than kings and cleric in ideological power. Pope approval Pippin adds divine grace? with task governing educating needy and

powerless, devotion to martyrs showed divine grace and strength of their Charlemagne incorporate nations of lordship,

freedom, reciprocal duty that would have universal appeal ? all oath of

fidelity demanded from all Hincmar highlights collective body, acting through

assemblies with Kin maintaining well being of the realm ? shared

participation in public duties and benefits ? the state revived ? Louis

emphasis collective nature of responsibility more than Charlemagne ?

Strasbourg Oaths ? underwrote kings commitments to each other.? Charles the Bald developed 850s idea of

a societas, political advice military support, shared business of men

faithful to the honor regni.? ?all

without exception had to come to the defence of the patria? ? even salves

not exempt ? all pay tributary ? stronger and weaker than predecessors ?

racked by internal conflict and external pressure Charles justify imposing

heavier burdens on his peoples Though Charles did not cease to lead armies ? more

prominent, more successful in other roles ? assembly-president, judge,

man-manger and manipulator public opinion ? sword prike symbol of a

noble?s honour ? armed service acceptable to God as it was to the King,

sword defined man?s public status, uses of ritual and social control,

de-sworidng known to Carolingians Harmscar ? public humiliation, bishops increasingly

involved in these public rituals ? ecclesiastical intervention to

legitimise, shift responsibility for dangerous political decisions,

fictive kin relationships denoted political hegemony and subordination ?

Charles the Bald consecrated at St Pter?s 875, involve aristocracy,

involve many people, lodge in memory, enhance authority create collective

consciousness of belonging to new realms ? in histories a swell. Symbolic representation of the present, and

construction of post, were was Kings attempted to involve contemporaries

in shaping the future: as such they were essentials in royal government.