Practice question · True or false
Charlemagne’s imperial coronation in 800 was immediately recognised in Constantinople, where it was understood as a courtesy title.
Hints
- Ask how many Roman emperors the eastern court believed there could be.
- Recognition took twelve years and had to be bought with territorial concessions.
Show the answer
False
Why
False. Constantinople treated it as a usurpation, there was already a Roman emperor, and withheld recognition until 812, and then only after negotiations that gave Venice and the Dalmatian coast to the eastern side. A second emperor was a constitutional impossibility, not a matter of protocol.
Practise Carolingian Europe
The app has 6 more questions on this lesson, and keeps your place in the course. History II is free to start.
More questions on Carolingian Europe
- Arrange these events in Carolingian history, earliest first.
- In which year did the Treaty of Verdun divide the Carolingian empire among Louis the Pious’s three surviving…
- Why is "renaissance" a term to use carefully for the Carolingian revival of learning?
- Complete the account of Carolingian government.
- Arrange the stages by which a Carolingian county became a heritable lordship.
- The Treaty of Verdun in 843 divided the Frankish realm into three separate kingdoms, yet historians caution…
- More manuscripts survive from the ninth century alone than from all the preceding centuries of the Latin West…