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| | Oxford Scholarship Online: The Frankish Church |
 | | The second section, ‘The Bishops and Reform’, looks at the episcopal record of the period, from councils and synods stretching over a century, and gives details of various resolves, provisions for instruction of the laity by preaching, collections of moral teaching (florilegia), manuals of penance, tithe, and surveillance of the monasteries. |
 | | The last section, ‘An Exemplary Bishop: Hincmar’, gives an account of Bishop Hincmar of northern Francia, who was born in 806, who became Bishop Hincmar of Reims. |
 | | Keywords: assemblies of bishops, Carolingian period, Charlemagne, Charles the Bald, council decisions, episcopal record, Exhortation, florilegia, Frankish Church, Hincmar of Laon, Hincmar of Reims, history, instruction of the laity, laity, Legislation, Louis the Pious, manuals of penance, monasteries, moral teaching, preaching, reform, religious history, synod decisions, tithe |
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