CAPITULARIES

kəpĭchˈoolĕrˌēz, decrees and written commands of the Carolingian kings of the Franks, so called because they were divided into capitula, or chapters. Both legislative and administrative, they were the chief written instrument of royal authority. The ordinances were issued either by the king alone or by the king and his counselors. They also served to amend or extend the Germanic laws as they applied to the entire Carolingian empire. Several capitularies—such as the exemplary De villis—dealt with the administration of the royal domains; others dealt with the church. Most important were the king's instructions sent to the missi dominici, his emissaries in the provinces. These contained instructions for the administration of the empire and instituted far-reaching reforms. Capitularies issued in the late Carolingian period are collected in the Monumenta Germaniae historica. The term capitularies is applied also to similar documents in other fields.

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The Spirit of Laws
Book by Charles De Secondat, Baron De Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rousseau; Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 1952
Subjects: Jurisprudence, Law--Philosophy, Political Science, State, The
...Codes of Barbarian Laws, and the Capitularies Came to Be Lost 235...well as of the Roman Law, and of the Capitularies 236...Salic and Roman Laws, as Also of the Capitularies 242...
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The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians, 751-987
Book by Rosamond McKitterick; Longman, 1983
Subjects: Carolingians, France--History--To 987, Franks--History
...Abbot Wando 742-7 and the will of Abbot Ansegisus 823-33 , the abbot famous for the collection he made of the royal capitularies in 826. The history was written in four sections and was never completed; the last section was written between 850 and...
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A History of Charles the Great (Charlemagne)
Book by J. I. Mombert; Kegan Paul, Trench, 1888
Subjects: Charlemagne--Emperor--742-814
...CHAPTER I. THE DIET AND THE CAPITULARIES...government.--A popular ratification.--The Capitularies. --Their classification.--Examples...G. List of Capitularies set forth in the reign of Charles the...
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State and Society in the Early Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000
Book by Matthew Innes; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Church And State--Rhine River Valley--History--To 1500, Cities And Towns, Medieval--Rhine River Valley, Elite (Social Sciences)--Rhine River Valley--History, France--Social Conditions--To 987, Germany--History--To 843, Germany--Religious Life And Customs--Middle Ages, 843-1517, Local Government--Rhine River Valley--History--To 1500, Monasticism And Religious Orders--Rhine River Valley--History--Middle Ages, 600-1600, Political Culture--Rhine River Valley--History--To 1500, Rhine River Valley--Social Conditions
...Carolingian history, used royal decrees capitularies to fill in the details of tangible...of the term bannus, found in the capitularies, as a right of command which was invested...inform the Ganshofian view from the capitularies remain unquestioned. Indeed, they thrive...
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Charlemagne: First of the Moderns
Book by Charles Edward Russell; The Riverside Press, 1930
Subjects: Charlemagne--Emperor--742-814
...estimating of Charlemagnes character. Yet from the mans indubitable deeds and still more from his remarkable letters or Capitularies, it should be possible to discern his psychology, purposes, methods, and view of life and this is the attempt here. He...
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Bernhard Blumenkranz, Juifs et Chretiens Dans le Monde Occidental, 430-1096
Journal article by Anna Djintcharadze; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 44, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Juifs et chretiens dans le monde occidental, 430-1096 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...first centuries of Christianity. The book reveals a breadth of historical and systematical expertise in law, council acts/capitularies, epistolary literature, and archival documents of the High Middle Ages; it therefore ranges between a strictly formal reference...
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Country Churches, Clerical Inventories and the Carolingian Renaissance in Bavaria
Journal article by Carl I. Hammer Jr.; Church History, Vol. 49, 1980
Subjects: Church History
...Wiesbaden, 1978 ), pp. 306-323. subjects for ecclesiastical examination, 2 and the sorts of episcopal statutes or capitularies which Gerbalds and Haitos works represent seem to have been distributed widely throughout the Empire. 3 Everywhere one...
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On Carolingian Book Painters: the Ottoboni Gospels and Its Transfiguration Master
Journal article by Lawrence Nees; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 83, 2001
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Illustrations, Middle Ages, Visual artists
...establishments would have envied. Eberhards will also lists books more obviously appropriate for a secular magnate: a collection of capitularies, a cosmography, a bestiary, a collection of "barbarian" laws, and Vegetiuss De re militari. Such a library might be imagined...


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The Ideal of Unity; Russell Chamberlin Examines the Origins and Development of Europe's Persistent Vision of Unity from the Birth of the Holy Roman Empire to Its Fall
Magazine article by Russell Chamberlin; History Today, Vol. 53, November 2003
Subjects: Europe--History, Europe--Political aspects, European federation--History, European federation--Political aspects, European federation--Social aspects
...penetrated every part of his enormous realm, which ran from the Elbe to the Tiber, conveying his will in documents known as capitularies. These provide a means for historians to follow the thought processes by which he governed his expanding realm. Named after...


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encyclopedia articles on: Capitularies  - 4 results

 
 
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Capitularies
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CAPITULARIES k pich ooler ez, decrees and written commands of...applied to the entire Carolingian empire. Several capitularies such as the exemplary De villis dealt with the administration...of the empire and instituted far-reaching reforms. Capitularies issued in the late Carolingian period are collected...
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Carolingians
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Louis V . In the Carolingian period, a landed economy was firmly established. The kings consolidated their rule by issuing capitularies and worked closely with church officials. Until the late 9th cent., Charlemagne and his successors were generous patrons...
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Charlemagne
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...predecessors. He permitted conquered peoples to retain their own laws, which he codified when possible, and he issued many capitularies (gathered in the Monumenta Germaniae historica ). A noteworthy achievement was the creation of a system by which he could...
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Germanic Laws
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...applied to Roman subjects and to the church. Another type of legislation distinct from these was the Frankish capitulary (see capitularies ). Important Codes Probably the oldest Germanic codes is the Codex Euricianus by King Euric, the personal law of the...


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