Summary Of Flodoard Of Reims

The Annals of Flodoard of Reims demonstrates and records evidence that the Roman Catholic Church was sufficient enough to be a political player to practice its’ own alliances, intrigues, and war. The introduction of the records outlines key details to keep in mind while looking through these records which outlines a clear hierarchy within the Roman Catholic Church system, thus can be compared to a feudalistic system. After all, historian’s have to recognize the implications of the Church being politically strategic enough to instate an Archbishop, named Bruno who ‘coincidentally’ happened to be the brother of a Queen in a region. However, before the political skills of the Roman Catholic Church system is discussed the introduction to The Annals of Flodoard of Reims must be discussed first. The argument that Fanning and Bachrach make about the records themselves is that they give an excellent account of what happened in Reims and across Europe during 919CE - 966CE in an otherwise sparse field of primary sources. In other words, the notion of “tenth-century western Europe is famous for its paucity of narrative sources, or as it has been put, “The tenth century is very ill-served”” is correct because …show more content…
As mentioned before it is clear that those who did not follow Christianity as their religion was an enemy to the Catholic Church. When “Bishop Robert [II] of Tours was returning from Rome and while in the Alps he and his companions were killed in their tents at night by brigands.” Though it may be presumptions to state that these brigands were hired by an enemy domain, as there is a lack of evidence in this case; there is at least some evidence that there was a relationship between the two in other cases such as when the records mention: “the castrum of Montigny-Lengrain, which Serlus, who