After the union of the Lombards to the Frankish kingdom, the capitularies made for the entire kingdom were applicable to Italy.
In the 10th century a collection was made of the capitularies in use in Italy, and this was known as the Capitulare Langobardorum.
There were also special capitularies for Italy, called Capitula Italica, some of which were appended to the edict of Rothar.
It is preceded by two capitularies of Charlemagne for Saxony--the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae (A.
For the capitulariesof Charlemagne against usury, see Liegeois, p.
In the eighth century, one of Charlemagne's capitularies seems to have had a like purpose.
The relation of vassalage was first recognized as legal in the capitularies of Charlemagne.
The rapidity with which the kings of the period were losing their grip on the situation comes out very clearly from a study of the capitularies which they issued from time to time.
But in truth all the provisions in it had been embodied in capitularies of Carloman's predecessors with scarcely perceptible effect, and there was certainly no reason to expect better results now.
Charlemagne had a standard measure (modius publicus) constructed and in a number of his capitularies enjoined that it be taken as a model by all his subjects.
This seems to be illustrated by a prohibition found in the Capitularies of Charlemagne against eating and drinking over the mounds of the dead; and also by a passage of Boniface (Epist.
In the Capitularies of Charlemagne the former crime was punished as homicide.
The ferocious laws here recounted contrast remarkably with a law in the Capitularies (lib.
A collection of true and genuine capitularies was made in A.
The edition of the Capitulariesmade in 1835 by George Pertz, in the Monumenta Germaniae (folio edition, vol.
These capitularieswere elaborated in the councils of the bishops; the kings of the Franks sanctioned the canon of the councils, and made them obligatory on all the Christians in the kingdom.
Among the capitularies are to be found documents of a very varied kind.
He then gave the capitulariesof Charles the Bald, and of other Carolingian kings, either contemporaries or successors of Charles, which he had discovered in various places.
These capitularies have the same weight as the law which they complete; they are particular in their application, applying, that is to say, only to the men subject to that law.
These capitularies were generally elaborated by the king of the Franks in the autumn assemblies or in the committees of the spring assemblies.
These capitularies formed a continuation of the Lombard laws, and are printed as an appendix to these laws by Boretius in the folio edition of the Monumenta Germaniae, Leges, vol.
In the capitularies there are usually permanent provisions and temporary provisions intermingled; and the observation of this fact has made it possible more clearly to understand certain institutions of Charlemagne, e.
These capitulariesmake provisions of a most varied nature; it was therefore found necessary at quite an early date to classify them into chapters according to the subject.
The first was a collection of false Capitularies ascribed to Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, and ostensibly the work of a certain Benedictus Levita, deacon of the Church of Mainz, who worked in the middle of the century.
This is the object set forth in Charlemagne's Capitulariesupon education.
These capitularies possess more than usual historical interest in view of their "profound and durable influence" on the final settlement of the law by Gratian and his successors.
It is strange that so wide a relaxation of the principle accepted by the early church, in part under the sanction of Rome itself, should have preceded by so few years its complete triumph in the capitularies of Charles the Great.
Charlemagne's Capitulariesprovided for the renovation of the churches, including their decorations.
The capitularies of Charlemagne contain similar ordinances: the priests are forbidden to combat "even against the pagans.
We find, therefore, in the poems and chronicles of this later time, constant mention of rich arms and armour; and in the capitularies of Charlemagne especially, we get a glimpse of the improvements in northern warfare.
We trace in the capitularies the continuous existence of these performances during the ages which followed the empire, and, as in the time of St. Augustine, they still formed the amusement of nocturnal assemblies.
Often, indeed, these Capitularies have no imperative or prohibitive character; they are simple counsels, purely moral precepts.
The Capitularies are the laws or legislative measures of the Frankish kings, Merovingian as well as Carlovingian.
It is noticeable that the majority of Charlemagne's Capitularies belong to that epoch of his reign when he was Emperor of the West, when he was invested with all the splendor of sovereign power.
For a short age which centres round the year 800 it seemed possible that Frankish kings, who were becoming Roman emperors, would be able to rule by their capitularies nearly the whole of the Christian Occident.
Several of Charlemagne's capitularies repeat complaints of these exactions, and endeavour to abolish such tolls as were not founded on prescription.
The Capitularies of Charlemagne inform us of the manner in which vagrant nuns, amorous dwellers in cloisters, offended against religious laws.
But from the reign of Pippin the Short onwards the civil law recognized and sanctioned this obligation, and the capitularies of Charlemagne and Louis the Debonnaire contain numerous provisions dealing with it.
In one of his capitularies of the year 810 we find this paragraph: "Alms to be sent to Jerusalem to repair the churches of God.
The capitularies of Charlemagne and of Louis le Débonnaire impose severe penalties on fiery phantoms which presume to appear in the air.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "capitularies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
