Frankish
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- adjective
- Carolingian texts include numerous references to Old Testament leaders, including Moses, as prototypes for Frankish rulers.
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Watch on YouTubeThe Vikings seem to jockey between emphasizing raids on the Frankish Empire and on England.
- The Vikings seem to jockey between emphasizing raids on the Frankish Empire and on England.
- So there'd always been an implicit danger of this once Frankish and Christian ideas of rulership were merged.
- Go to church, you know, work or become a soldier for the, for the Roman army or whatever, the Frankish army or be a farmer or be a pat, be a.
Examples
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The Vikings seem to jockey between emphasizing raids on the Frankish Empire and on England.
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These categories, however, were not rigid, nor did they fully capture the Frankish spatial framework.
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The Frankish knight and the Islamic faris had much in common.
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To stop this destruction in his realm, Frankish King Charles the Simple offered Rolo land in return for protection against other Raiders.
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On the one hand, missionaries and bishops could not function within the Frankish empire and its dependencies without the consent of the rulers.
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Yet Usamah was never wholly biased; he cites two cases where Frankish medicine worked miraculously.
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Through the renovatio, the Frankish court, bishops, and church councils together produced a large body of capitula episcoporum and concilia to reform religious behavior.
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In 789, Charlemagne, who more than a decade earlier had conquered Lombard northern Italy and annexed it to his Frankish-Roman state, issued some new laws for his Western European Empire.
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Although one might assume that there existed significant consensus in the Carolingian period about what transformed spaces into sacred ones (namely, church consecration ceremonies), Frankish texts, in fact, reveal competing narratives about what mechanisms made things and places holy.
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The Frankish knights played a crucial role in the battles during the early Middle Ages.
Synonyms
About the Franks, an early group of people in Europe, and their culture
Surface Forms
Morphology
Frankish = Frank (transparent) = Frank + ish
The adjective is a straightforward derivation meaning 'of or relating to the Franks' formed by productive suffix '-ish'.
Etymology
Frankish comes from the name of the people called the Franks, a West Germanic people who lived in parts of Europe long ago. The same name gave us France and the English word frank ('open' or 'free'), so Frankish simply means 'of or from the Franks'.