Capitularia missorum specialia explained

The Capitulare missorum generale ("General capitulary on legates") and Capitularia missorum specialia ("Special capitularies on legates"), both issued in 802, were acts of Charlemagne whereby the role and functions of the missi dominici ("royal legates") were defined and placed on a permanent footing, as well as specific instructions sent out to the various missatica (the missi's territories).

Editions

• Encyclopedia: Capitulare Missorum Generale . . https://archive.today/20131001013654/http://www.mgh.de/dmgh/resolving/MGH_Capit._1_S._91 . dead . 2013-10-01 . IV, Karoli Magni Capitularia . Leges, Capitularia regum Francorum . 33 . 91–99 .
• Encyclopedia: Capitularia Missorum Specialia . . https://archive.today/20131001013649/http://www.mgh.de/dmgh/resolving/MGH_Capit._1_S._99 . dead . 2013-10-01 . IV, Karoli Magni Capitularia . Leges, Capitularia regum Francorum . no. 34–36 . 99–104 .

Sources

• Deutsches Archiv für die Erforschung des Mittelalters . 14 . 1956 . 498–516 . Die capitularia missorum specialia 802 . W. A. . Eckhardt.
• Book: McKitterick, Rosamond . Rosamond McKitterick

. Rosamond McKitterick . The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians, 751–987 . Longman . London . 1983.

• Book: McKitterick, Rosamond . Rosamond McKitterick

. Rosamond McKitterick . Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 2008.

• Book: Henry Royston . Loyn . John . Percival . The Reign of Charlemagne . Hodder & Stoughton Educational . London . 1975.

External links

• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/carol-missi1.asp
• http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/capitula.asp