MEDIEVAL WARFARE

The Franks, Religion, Politics, and Early Medieval Warfare

 Age of the Great Invasions
Franks
Gaul would become France (“Land of the Franks”)
Note:  Why were the Franks significant?
Clovis
Charlemagne (Charles the Great)
Battle of Tours (732)
Historians:
Bishop Gregory of Tours
Einhard
Clothilde
Conversion of Clovis to Roman Christianity (496)
Political Similarities in the conversions of Constantine and Clovis
Edict of Milan (313)
Christian concept of Just War
Ulfilas
Arianism
Nicene Creed
Valens (Arian emperor)
Theodosius (Proclaims Nicene Christianity the religion of the Empire)
Papal-Frankish Alliance
Merovingian Dynasty
Rois Fanéants
Carolingian Dynasty
Charles Martel
Pepin the Short
Pope Zachary
St. Boniface
Childeric
Donation of Pepin
The Papal States (756)