Dorine van Espelo is Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of History at Radboud University Nijmegen Bram van den Hoven van Genderen is Lecturer in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht UniversityRob Meens is Lecturer in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht UniversityJanneke Raaijmakers is Lecturer in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht UniversityIrene van Renswoude is Researcher in the Department of History of Science at Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (ING - KNAW), The HagueCarine van Rhijn is Lecturer in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University

• Introduction - Rosamond McKitterickPart I: Defining royal authority: religious discourse and political polemic1 The rhetoric of election: 1 Peter 2.9 and the Franks - Walter Pohl and Gerda Heydemann2 Adopt, adapt and improve. Dealing with the Adoptionist controversy at the court of Charlemagne - Rutger Kramer3 The ruler as referee in theological debates: Reccared and Charlemagne - Janneke Raaijmakers and Irene van Renswoude4 The ruler with the sword in the Utrecht Psalter - Bart JaskiPart II: Royal Power in action: Correctio5 Reform and the Merovingian Church - Ian Wood6 "... but they pray badly using corrected books": errors in early Carolingian copies of the Admonitio generalis- Marco Mostert7 Emendatio and effectus in Frankish prayer traditions - Els Rose8 Alcuin, Seneca, and the Brahmins of India - Yitzhak Hen9 'Et hoc considerat episcopus, ut ipsi presbyteri non sint idiothae'. Carolingian local correctio and an unknown priests' exam from the early ninth century - Carine van Rhijn10 Religious Saxons: paganism, infidelity and biblical punishment in the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae - Robert Flierman11 An admonition too far? The sermon De cupiditate by Ambrose Autpertus - Max Diesenberger12 Three annotated letter manuscripts: scholarly practices of religious Franks in the margin unveiled - Mariken TeeuwenPart III: Monastic powerhouses and centres of leaning13 The Carolingians and the Regula Benedicti - Albrecht Diem14 Reichenau and its amici viventes: competition and cooperation? - Regine Le Jan15 Monte Cassino and Carolingian politics around 800 - Sven Meeder16 A mirror of princes who opted out. Regino of Prüm and royal monastic conversion - Erik Goosmann and Rob MeensPart IV: Powerful bishops17 Merovingian Gospel readings in Northumbria: the legacy of Wilfrid? - David Ganz18 Bishops in the mirror. From self-representation to episcopal model: the case of the eloquent bishops, Ambrose of Milan and Gregory the Great - Giorgia Vocino19 Charlemagne and the bishops - Janet Nelson20 The Penance of Attigny (822) and the leadership of the bishops in amending the Carolingian society - Philippe Depreux21 From Justinian to Louis the Pious: inalienability of church property and the sovereignty of a ruler in the ninth century - Steffen Patzold and Stefan Esders22 Incest, penance and a murdered bishop: the legend of Frederic of Utrecht - Bram van den Hoven van GenderenPart V: Franks and Rome23 Pippin III and the sandals of Christ. The making and unmaking of an early medieval relic - Julia Smith24 Rulers, popes and bishops: the historical context of the ninth-century Cologne Codex Carolinus manuscript (Codex Vindobonensis 449) - Dorine van Espelo25 Pope Nicholas I and the Franks: politics and ecclesiology in the ninth century - Tom NobleIndex

‘The authors who have contributed to this volume must be particularly praised for the clarity and lucidity with which they present some often very obscure and esoteric topics. A tome of nearly six hundred pages can appear a daunting prospect, but the contributors make reading it nothing less than an intellectually stimulating pleasure that I hope many more scholars will experience.’Richard Broom, University of Leeds, Early Medieval Europe 2018'The editors and contributors to this volume should be applauded for gathering such a timely collection of essays to honor Mayke de Jong's important contributions to the field. Readers interested in familiarizing themselves with some of the current questions and approaches in this period's religious and political history should find their way to this Festschrift.?' The Medieval Review'Diverse and exceptionally coherent.'Rezensionen im Deutschen Archiv 75-2 (2019)