Next arrives Michael Edward Moore’s Bishops and the Rise of Frankish Kingship, 300-850, written in 2011. His importance to the field entails his interweaving of several important concepts. He heavily looks at the rise of the Frankish Church, the manner in which, the Carolingians gained their power, and the usage of the speculum principum in the daily lives of the monarchs. With the reign of Louis the Pious, the religious ideal of kingship and the vision that the Frankish Kingdom was a sacred kingdom reached a high point, however, the civil wars and the loss of his throne destroyed his place as the most important Carolingian ruler. Among his most interesting discussions, Moore looks at the influence of Pharaonic Kingship and Biblical Kingship on Carolingian Kingship. Within those two cultures the king essentially held the title king and “bishop” or ruler of the religion. Within the Carolingian kingdom and later empire, the king worked alongside the bishops, somewhat as equals, but the king also held religious power over them.
In Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500-1200, Constance Bouchard, examines a large …show more content…
Stone’s main area interest lies in medieval gender history, specifically Carolingian. This work looks at the ways that Carolingian nobles maintained their masculinity and social position, but having to adhere to new and stricter moral demands by religious reformers concerning: behavior in war, sexual conduct, and the correct use of power. Stone heavily looks at the way lay mirrors and mirror for princes influenced the nobles in their endeavor to become more moral. Finally, this innovative analysis of Carolingian moral norms interprets how gender interacted with political and religious ideology to create a distinctive Frankish elite culture, creating a new picture of Carolingian