Church History, June 1st, 2000
Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians. By Kenneth Levy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x + 271 pp. $49.50 cloth.
The standard history of Carolingian liturgical reform usually begins in 754, when Pope Stephen II traveled to the Frankish kingdom to anoint Pepin king and to confirm their alliance against the Lombards. At this time, the pious King Pepin decided to confirm his alliance with the pope by suppressing the ancient Gallican liturgy in favor of the Roman. Pepin's son Charlemagne continued to mandate liturgical reform according to Roman standards out of a determination to u...
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