Ideology of Power
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• 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.

Other Notes in this Category

1. Basis of Power
2. Carolignian Geneaology
3. Carolignians and Italy
4. Chronological Analysis
5. Church
6. Communications
7. Did growth lead to a more systematic style of government?
8. Domestic government and power bases
9. Ideology of Power
10. Importance of the West 814 - 898
11. Kingship and Royal Government - Janet Nelson
12. Logistics of Power
13. Nobility and Expansion Dynamic
14. Nobility and Expansion Dynamic - Effect on surrounding peoples
15. Plunder and Tribute in the Carolignian Empire
16. Society and Politics
17. Sociology of Power
18. The Carolignian Experiment - EF James
19. Vikings

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