Charlemagne: An introduction (1 of 2)발음듣기
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Charlemagne: An introduction (1 of 2)
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(music) Male: Between the ancient Roman world and the modern world, between the ancient Roman emperors and Napolean, there was really only one ruler that controlled most of Western Europe.발음듣기
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Female: The person you're referring to is Charlemagne or Charles the Great or Carolus Magnus.발음듣기
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He's a legend, really, Charlemagne. Male: In fact, historians struggle because there are so few fragments of information. This is so long ago.발음듣기
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Male: On Christmas Day, in the year 800 exactly, Charlemagne is crowned emperor by the Pope in Rome.발음듣기
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Male: The Roman emperors in the ancient world had ruled from Rome until Constantine moved the empire to Constantinople, what is now Istanbul.발음듣기
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So the center of power had shifted to the East and now, in 800, 500 years after Constantine, we have now an emperor in the West.발음듣기
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Let's think about what happened in Western Europe that allowed for Charlemagne to become the new emperor.발음듣기
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Male: The first thing that's important to understand, the Western Roman Empire basically fell apart.발음듣기
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Female: What we see beginning especially in the fifth century is the dissolution of the institutions of the Roman Empire.발음듣기
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Male: In order to understand what happened in the Roman Empire in the West, you have to recognize the pressure from a series of invasions from people that the Romans thought of as barbarians.발음듣기
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Charlemagne was a Frank and if we go back several centuries, we can see the beginning of the kingdom of the Franks. In addition to the Franks, there were also the Lombards.발음듣기
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This was another Germanic people, another group who the Romans would have considered barbarians, who had conquered Northern Italy.발음듣기
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Female: They were often threatening what was the heart of the old Roman Empire, and that was Rome, the Papal States. Now when I say Papal States I mean the areas governed by the Pope.발음듣기
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We think about the Pope as a spiritual leader, but back in the ninth century and actually for many centuries, the Pope was also a political leader.발음듣기
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Male: What's so interesting is that the Pope, the papacy, would have traditionally looked to the Byzantine emperor for protection from people like the Lombards, but by the time the Lombards were threatening Rome, the Byzantine Empire was not strong enough to defend Rome. So instead, the papacy looked North to the kingdom of the Franks.발음듣기
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Female: Charlemagne, early in his career, had been called on by the Pope at the time, Pope Hadrian, to protect him and the papal lands.발음듣기
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This dependence between the papacy and the king of the Franks started with Charlemagne's father, Pepin, who was given the authority to rule by the Pope.발음듣기
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Male: There's this really interesting reciprocal relationship between the Pope in Rome and this Frankish king, Charlemagne, and his father, and that is that the Pope is getting military protection, and at the same time he's offering a kind of legitimacy.발음듣기
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Female: What ends up happening is that you have two very powerful figures in Western Europe, and there will be a contest between these two offices; later what will become the Holy Roman emperor and the Pope, actually for centuries to come. But back to the story.발음듣기
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We have the Byzantine Empire in the East. We have the Pope ruling from Rome over the Papal States in Central Italy.발음듣기
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We have Charlemagne, who's the king of the Franks, ruling over a very large area encompassing largely what is now France, what is now Germany, and Northern Italy. Then surrounding all of these players in the East, in North Africa to the South, and even in the majority of Spain, you have Islam, which is advancing quickly.발음듣기
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In order to understand how it is that this barbarian, this king of the Franks, Charlemagne, is crowned as the emperor in 800, we have to go back one year earlier, back to 799.발음듣기
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Part of the problem was that he did not come from one of the traditional powerful aristocratic families in Rome.발음듣기
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Male: In fact, according to some accounts, they did, and somehow they were miraculously restored.발음듣기
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In order for them to put another Pope on the throne of St. Peter, they needed Charlemagne's agreement.발음듣기
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We're not quite sure how this happens but it seems likely that some of Charlemagne's emissaries in Rome made it possible for the Pope to be released and to have an audience with Charlemagne in the North.발음듣기
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Female: Interestingly, Charlemagne, who was a brilliant politician sent everybody back to Rome for a kind of hearing.발음듣기
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Male: When Charlemagne enters into St. Peter's Basilica on Christmas Day in the year 800 and Pope Leo III puts the crown of the emperor on his head, we know that everybody is getting a good deal.발음듣기
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The king of the Franks has become an emporer and, of course, Leo is cementing his bond with his protector.발음듣기
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In fact, Leo III, when he was first made Pope a few years earlier, sent Charlemagne the keys to the relics of St. Peter and the banner of the city of Rome.발음듣기
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Now the capital of the Empire was not a Mediterranean city, it was now in the North, it was now in the city of Aachen.발음듣기
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We see this important shift as focus moves from the Eastern Mediterranean to the North of Europe.발음듣기
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Female: Charlemagne was not just a brilliant warrior and politician, but also was a very serious reformer and began what some historians call the Carolingian Renaissance. The word Carolingian refers to the reign of Charlemagne and his successors.발음듣기
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This is no Renaissance on the scale of the Renaissance that will happen in the 1400s in Italy and Northern Europe, but it is a small flowering, renewal, a looking back to the traditions of ancient Rome, particularly looking back to the time of Constantine, the first Christian Roman emperor.발음듣기
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