| Opis: | This master's thesis, titled: Charles the Great: the 'Father of Europe' and a Great Christianizer, presents Charles the Great from two perspectives. In the first part of the thesis, he is portrayed as a mighty ruler, the Father of Europe, a lighthouse of the then western medieval Europe, who had, with his Church, administration and educational reforms, and with his artistic sense, successfully ruled over the Frankish kingdom. As the only ruler of this kind, he wished to preserve a connection with Rome. One of the ways to do that, was mending sacred books. The process was called ‘’correction’’. It meant not only copying and mending books. The process included all aspects of life, including architecture. In the second part of the thesis, Charles the Great is presented as a devoted Christian who had used violence and his sword to Christianise all pagan tribes in his kingdom, in order to bring them into the Christian faith. Formally, this ‘’By the Cross and the Sword’’ policy was legally grounded but did not produce the desired long-term results. These was achieved only through the Irish way of Christianisation, which was, after it was successfully implemented with the Saxons, also used with the Slavs. After he had acquired the title of the Emperor in 800, Charles the Great was also able to justify Christianisation within the Empire. |
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