524. Charlemagne: Pagan Killer (Part 2)

2145.075 - 2167.547 Dominic Sandbrook

People may have a vague sense that this is all that medieval kings did, but certainly in the early Middle Ages and even back in the final years of the Christian emperor, this wasn't what was happening. Because the Roman assumption, which the Franks seem to have inherited... It's basically that to have faith in Christ is both a kind of a marker and a perk of being civilized.