Judith Herrin ? Carolingian Innovation From The Formation Of Christendom Essay, Research Paper

?Through efforts

Charlemagne?s father, Pippin, that dynasty dominated majority Western Europe ?

strong position, Aquitaine problematic, continues his father, Cahrles Martel?s

work. Pippin worked on church reforms: insistence Roman liturgical

forms, baptimisal and marriage rites, Sunday observance and uniform penance for

ecclesiastical offences ? local and international level of church organisation

? dynasty drew pn religious support, underlay consolidation of its rule. The idea of primogeniture to designate an heir was as

inconceivable as the eastern principle of establishing a co-emperor according

to imperial traitin