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Handout #94 |
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Capitulary of Charlemagne on Saxony (about 785 A.D.) |
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The legislative texts of the Carolingian
sovereigns were called capitularies.
Anyone who enters a church by violence and, by force or by theft, removes any object in it or sets fire to the building, shall be put to death. Anyone who, in contempt of Christianity, refuses to respect the holy fast of Lent and eats meat shall be put to death. Anyone who commits a dead body to the flames, following pagan rites, shall be put to death. Any unbaptized Saxon who tries to conceal the fact from his fellows and refuses to accept baptism shall be put to death ... |
